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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RAIN – A Living Lab Concept for Circular Economy, Cooperation and Innovation in Rural Regions
Wagner, K. et al., Presenting “RAIN – A Living Lab Concept for Circular Economy, Cooperation and Innovation in Rural Regions” at the online conference of the European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly, May 2020, Vienna. [...]
CIRCULAR MODEL FOR RENEWABLE ENERGY PRODUCTION IN TRASIMENO AREA
Teleheating is a form of heating that consists of the distribution through networks of insulated (mostly buried) hot, overheated or steam (called thermal fluid) from a large production plant. With this system the water arrives [...]
THE ROLE OF WINE-TOURISM IN THE CIRCULAR ECONOMY OF TRASIMENO
The Umbria Wine Tourism Movement organizes visits to the wineries during the harvest period in the territory of Trasimeno, discovering the varieties of grapes, must and wine (DOC COLLI TRASIMENO WHITE and RED). One of [...]
CULTIVATION OF OLIVE AND HAZEL IN TRASIMENO TERRITORY – TOWARDS INNOVATION AND CIRCULARITY
Umbria is the first Italian region to have obtained the recognition of the Dop (Olive Oil) throughout the regional territory (about 8000 hectares in production). And the name Dop Umbria is accompanied by five geographical [...]
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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.