Project description
Solutions for rural sustainability challenges
Rural communities across the EU face a unique set of sustainability challenges that are crucial to overcome if Europe is to reach climate neutrality by 2050. With one-third of Europeans living in rural areas rich in ecosystems and natural resources, empowering these communities is essential. With this in mind, the EU-funded STORCITO project addresses sustainable resource management and wildfire prevention, the transition to sustainable energy, and inclusive climate-neutral mobility. Over 36 months, it will develop tailored innovations across Europe’s diverse rural zones, including nature-based wildfire solutions, digital fire monitoring tools, and a climate-neutral mobility app. Co-created with local stakeholders, STORCITO aims to deliver practical tools, training, and policy guidelines to build resilience and foster sustainable rural development across the continent.
Objective
The sustainability challenges faced by rural communities in the European Union (EU) are multi-faceted, and empowering these communities to address them is crucial to achieve climate neutrality by 2050, since one-third of the EU population resides in rural areas and these areas house critical ecosystems and natural resources.
STORCITO is a 36-month project that will focus on fostering innovation in three key areas and major challenges of rural areas in Europe: (1) sustainable management of resources and wildfire prevention, (2) transition of citizens to sustainable energy systems and (3) achievement of an inclusive climate-neutral mobility. To enable successful customized innovations for each challenge, different rural ecosystems have been selected as representative scenarios in the four main pedo-climatic zones in Europe (Atlantic, Mediterranean, Continental and Boreal), matching selected rural communities with the biggest challenges in the area. By the end of the project, STORCITO will provide the following technical, social and organizational innovative solutions: (1) new tailor-made nature-based solutions (NBS) to avert wildfires, (2) new digital dashboard with updated fire indexes; (3) new on-demand climate-neutral mobility app for rural users; (4) new organizational support manual to enhance community-energy systems; (5) new CCUS informative app; (6) tailored training and educational materials for stakeholders and general public, (7) guidelines for reproducibility and (8) policy recommendations to local administrations and other relevant rural stakeholders. These innovations will be co-created with rural stakeholders to respond to their needs and examined for their feasibility and/or drawbacks in different biogeographical regions.
STORCITO will create a holistic and sustainable framework for rural development to not only address immediate challenges but also foster long-term resilience.
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HORIZON.2.6 - Food, Bioeconomy Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment
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(opens in new window) HORIZON-CL6-2024-COMMUNITIES-02
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36310 VIGO PONTEVEDRA
Spain
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