Scientific Outputs
The LIVERUR project identifies Living Labs as innovative business models that are currently being developed in rural areas, and will conduct socio-economic analyzes to identify, describe and compare the differences between the new approach of Living Lab and more entrepreneurial traditional approaches (mass production, development of prices, optimizing cost structures with companies, rationalization).
Innovative business models
Living labs methodology
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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 [...]
Next events
Chambres d'agriculture de Bretagne has organized a new living lab meeting that will take place on 22nd of October in Lorient, France. The objetives of this meeting are: - Engage local stakeholders to exchange on the concept of a Territorial Milk. - Build a common view on the Territorial Milk and the value chain. - [...]
On 24 October 2019, the RUBIZMO partnership will present its first tools and findings at the conference ‘Supporting rural business success across Europe’, which will be hosted at the European Economic and Social Committee in Brussels. This event will be the chance for policy-makers, industry representatives, networks, civil society groups and all interested stakeholders to [...]
Projecs
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.