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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POSSIBLE CIRCULAR ECONOMY APPLICATIONS IN THE PILOT AREA OF TRASIMENO
During the second WORKSHOP, programmed as part of the activities of identifying the models of realization of a Living Rural Lab in the pilot area of Trasimeno (RAIN principles), UCT&SOGESCA were able to define objectives, [...]
OPTIMIZATION AND DIGITALIZATION OF WATER RESOURCE IN THE TRASIMENO AREA
In the year 2019, in the territories of the municipalities of PASSIGNANO and CASTIGLIONE del LAGO, about 300 hectares of agricultural area were irrigated, mainly invested in vegetable crops, orchards and olive groves. About 230000 [...]
Rural environment and innovation, Trasimeno is the lead player (Trasimeno Online Web Journal)
Trasimeno is among the twelve pilot rural areas in which to apply the experience of "living labs", regional and circular business models, in which local actors cooperate according to common principles. The Union of Municipalities, [...]
6TH TRANSNATIONAL PROJECT MEETING
On 25th and 26th of November 2020, the 6th Transnational Project Meeting was held. Like each meeting, the entire LIVERUR consortium was scheduled to travel to one of the partner countries to do two days [...]
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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.