LIVERUR achieved its goals by having noticeable effects at different levels of action. While at the beginning LIVERUR mainly developing strategies and methodologies at the analytical, business model and knowledge share/communitarian level, in later stages the analytical level encompassed the conceptualization of existing rural business models in EU and regional areas and the development of relevant benchmarking criteria and innovative comparison strategies. In the innovation phase, during the pilot implementation, the business level included the study of the living lab technique and the feasibility assessment on the integration process in the consortium territories, plus the development of a regional circular living lab business model.
At operational level, LIVERUR contributed that the Regional Circular Living Lab model could be made operative through the fully implemented pilots it 12 selected territories in order to prove the feasibility and operability of the concept. Territorial guidelines were implemented and a Toolbox integrated in order to facilitate the testing of the new business model.
At capitalization level, the outcomes of LIVERUR were disseminated outside the consortium areas, especially in joint cooperation with other H2020 projects working in rural development in order to ensure their transferability even after the end of the development period. Every piloting area is ready to include another nearby and similar area in order to start a process of share of best practices even after the project ended. In addition, a tutoring activity will be performed in order to help the other territorial communities to develop their own strategic plans.
In the long term, the results helped increasing the potential for rural economic diversification, added value and job creation in a variety of rural areas thanks to the dissemination of promising business cases. The involved SMAEs will become even more multifunctional, offering the following items: new services, related to green infrastructure services; new products and services related to the agriculture-environment-tourism as well as environment-culture-tourism value chains; co-operation with the educational system; cooperation with the regional rural development authorities. The SMAEs will reduce the water, energy and CO2 footprints of their products/services and they will improve its environmental management system.
Last but not least, LIVERUR provided new and innovative ways in the delivery of ecosystem services resulting from innovative forms of valorization. The LIVERUR consortium will continue creating a long-standing co-operation and knowledge platform between the Rural Living Labs, using the ICT tool and the lesson learned implementing the circular economy principle.
LIVERUR though its implemented Living Labs and the RAIN Business models paid special attention to the potential barriers that could link successfully the socio economic level with gender equality and it involving migrants, elderly and disabled people in their activities
