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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Welcome our new partner CRAB to the LIVERUR consortium
The Regional Brittany Chamber of Agriculture (CRAB) from France is officially the new partner of the LIVERUR project. The Brittany Chambers of Agriculture are self-governing public bodies, managed by elected representatives from the agriculture and [...]
LIVERUR project presents its first scientific results on Living Lab and circular economy
Three researchers from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Ljubljana, have published in the latest issue of Sustainability Magazine the first article resulting from the LIVERUR project's research entitled Living Labs for Rural Areas: Contextualization [...]
LIVERUR collaborated in the summer Course about CSR
Santander Bank and the international network of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) of the Catholic University San Antonio of Murcia organized a summer course during the days 8th and 9th of July in Calasparra (Murcia). This [...]
The third LIVERUR meeting was celebrated in Azores
The third LIVERUR meeting was celebrated in Azores in order to show the results of the project of the last 6 months. They were presented to the different stakeholders and there were established the following [...]
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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.