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
Our latest news
The unavoidable ecological transition of the agriculture
A few weeks ago, in one of our posts, we talked about the importance of the soil conservation in which agricultural activities are carried out. As non-renewable resource, soil should be worked in the less [...]
Agritourism: a new way of rural tourism
A new trend that is growing within rural tourism in Europe is agritourism. Concern for the environment and sustainable activities development has driven the interest for this type of rural tourism, but… what do we [...]
TECHNICAL MEETING ON ENERGY EFFICIENCY IN UCT FARMS
On Octuber 6, 2019 took place the "Technical Meeting on Energy Efficiency in UCT Farms" at Agronomists Studio (Perugia, Italy). There, our partner the “Unione dei Comuni Trasimeno" (UCT) talked about the objectives of the [...]
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 [...]
Next events
CICERONE is organizing a two-day event which will gather circular economy actors from governments, policy makers, businesses and academia, to jointly work on ways to improve circular economy financing in Europe. The first day of the event, 19th November, will offer an organized tour of circular economy projects in Berlin, providing an excellent opportunity for [...]
On 21th November 2019, our partner Chambre d’Agriculture Régionale Pays de la Loire (CAPdL) will participate to a French seminar in Clermont-ferrand where the French agricultural living labs will be gathered. The subject is to implement a link on such french RLL. Our colleague, Jean-Noel Chaucesse, will present LIVERUR program in the seminar and Céline [...]
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.