LIVERUR aims to support businesses, projects, and initiatives, in designing innovative business models in rural areas moving towards a Circular Economy and including all important stakeholders by following the Living Lab approach.
Given that empirically substantiated studies are still lacking, LIVERUR’s short-term objective is to improve knowledge of business models that grow in rural areas, including the understanding of their potential. In the long term, the project will increase the potential for rural economic diversification.
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#3 LIVERUR partners involvement: CESIE
Why Rural Development is important? What are the main obstacles to rural business? What are the personal challenges of rural entrepreneurs? These and other aspects of the Sicilian rural life and economy have been explored [...]
The unavoidable ecological transition of the agriculture
A few weeks ago, in one of our posts, we talked about the importance of the soil conservation in which agricultural activities are carried out. As non-renewable resource, soil should be worked in the less [...]
Agritourism: a new way of rural tourism
A new trend that is growing within rural tourism in Europe is agritourism. Concern for the environment and sustainable activities development has driven the interest for this type of rural tourism, but… what do we [...]
TECHNICAL MEETING ON ENERGY EFFICIENCY IN UCT FARMS
On Octuber 6, 2019 took place the "Technical Meeting on Energy Efficiency in UCT Farms" at Agronomists Studio (Perugia, Italy). There, our partner the “Unione dei Comuni Trasimeno" (UCT) talked about the objectives of the [...]
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LIVERUR aims to expand an extremely innovative business model called Living Labs among rural regions. Living laboratories are ecosystems of open innovation, centered on the user, which often operate in a territorial context, integrating concurrent research and innovation processes within a public-private partnership.
Partners
The LIVERUR project involves more than 20 European partners from peripheral areas in which the development of the rural economy is vital for their survival. Although LIVERUR is focused on Europe, one of the partners is located in Tunisia, which provides a greater internationalization to the project.