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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Bioeconomy: an efficient economy model
Bioeconomy is the set of activities aimed at creating products and services through the use of biological resources. Its purpose is to generate economic value by providing these products and services to all the economic [...]
Conservation Agriculture and its three main principles
Conservation Agriculture is a type of agriculture whose techniques are focused on the conservation, improvement and efficient use of the resources through an integrated management of the soil, water, biological agents and externals inputs. This [...]
#2 LIVERUR partners involvement: Federal Institute of Agricultural Economics, Rural and Mountain Research (BAB)
The Federal Institute of Agricultural Economics, Rural and Mountain Research (BAB) is a socio-economic research institute located in Austria. BAB conducts research on the Austrian agricultural sector, both with a national focus and in the [...]
Pilot 2: Edible Park of Reggio Emilia
Mirca Salsi is the sales manager of the agricultural cooperative Ortolani, whose membership base is composed of about 40 agricultural producers, mostly located in the Emilia Romagna Region. Among the producers who confer their produce [...]
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Projects
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.