Project summary
RURBANIVE will develop 6 Rural/Urban Enablers (RUEs), innovations in six domains favouring bi-directional rural/urban synergies and a well-being economy. A digital space, the “Community Store”, the prominent result of RURBANIVE, will integrate the RUEs along with the “Community of Practice Suite” of policies, facilitating rural/ urban communities to create strong synergies.
The Community Store will make possible synergies and recommendations, online interaction, dialogue, collaboration, and participation of rural/urban stakeholders. Rural/urban immersiveness (RUI), exploiting the endless capabilities of immersion, will promote experimentation and innovation in rural/ urban areas. Immersive campaigns emerging from co-creation activities will be tailored to the potential of 7 Rural/ Urban co-Creation Labs (RUCLs) and will enable rural/urban interactions through enhanced social connectivity and experimentation. The 7 RUCLs will represent different geographical and socio-cultural EU contexts, and RUI will ensure that stakeholders across specificities are included in prototyping, testing, piloting, and demonstrating the RURBANIVE results.
A novel rural/urban innovation framework, supported by social and technical innovations, will enhance territorial governance and existing policy tools by equipping RUCLs with tangible outcomes on improving their rural/urban synergies. Participatory processes will support dialogue and cooperation, enabling stakeholders to assess and evaluate approaches and scenarios that contribute further to developing synergies and recommendations.
The Open Call will fund projects developing their own RUEs, based on the six RURBANIVE RUE domains, to be applied in other rural/urban areas and be available on the project’s Community Store and the RUI. An inviting and sustainable ecosystem will be created around RURBANIVE to maximize the project’s impact. The broad application of the project innovations will be enabled through the creation of business model.
Partners
Project Coordinator:
ICCS, Institute of Communication and Computer Systems
Partnership Consortium:
Agricultural University of Athens (AUA)
RISE, Swedish Research Institute
AEIDL, European Association for Innovation in Local Development
Czech University of Life Sciences Prague (CZU)
AgriFood Lithuania is a Digital Innovation Hub and Cluster
The Lisbon Council for Economic Competitiveness and Social Renewal asbl
ANAPTYXIAKI ETAIREIA DIMOU TRIKKAION ANAPTYXIAKI ANONYMI ETAIREIA OTA E-TRIKALA
Kedainiu rajono savivaldybes administracija KDM
Innovation Campus Lemgo e.V. (ICL)
PREPARE (Partnerships for Rural Europe)
Project status:
Start date: 1st of January 2024, Duration: 48 months
Call: HORIZON.2.6 – Food, Bioeconomy Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment
Topic: HORIZON-CL6-2023-COMMUNITIES-01-2 – Improving rural future through better territorial governance and rural-urban synergies
Grant Agreement Number: 101136597
Overall costs: 5.596.030 €
EU Contribution: 5.495.530 €
