Rural entrepreneurship and employment in transition

Información del proyecto

Identificador del acuerdo de subvención: INTAS-1999-00965

Proyecto cerrado

Fecha de inicio 1 Abril 2000

Fecha de finalización 31 Marzo 2002

Financiado con arreglo a

• International Association for the promotion of cooperation with scientists from the independent states of the former Soviet Union (INTAS), 1993-

Coste total

Sin datos

Aportación de la UE

€ 90 000,00

Coordinado por

University of Macedonia
Greece

Objetivo

Rural areas located in both NIS and EU economies, are currently undergoing a process of economic restructuring associated with an intensification of employment problems and the marginalisation of certain social and economic strata. Within this context, entrepreneurship is perceived, both by researchers and policy-makers, as a key instrument in engineering economic growth. This project sets out to examine, the actual and potential contribution of entrepreneurial ventures in stimulating economic development in rural locations. The underlying aim is to identify instances of best practice, in terms of both public and private initiatives, and explore their replicability elsewhere.

The research objectives include:
Objective 1: To identify the key causes and effects of economic restructuring currently affecting Europe's rural areas in both NIS and established market economies;
Objective 2: Explore the consequences that 'Globalisation' processes have had and will have upon the development trajectories of rural areas in NIS and compare those with the experience of the UK and Greece;
Objective 3: To identify sources of entrepreneurship (new, existing and potential);
Objective 4: To evaluate the extent to which the existing institutional, social and technological environment and infrastructure encourages and facilitates entrepreneurship;
Objective 5: To analyse the nature and type of work created through entrepreneurial activity;
Objective 6: To assess the appropriateness of existing policy approaches and instruments and to identify initiatives which could have wider application in Europe's rural periphery.

In addressing these issues a multitude of methodological instruments will be deployed. Specifically:
objectives 1 & 2 will draw from the findings of desk-top research and structured workshops
objective 3 will draw from the findings of a population survey (NIS) and desk-top research (INTAS)
objective 4 will draw from the findings of key informant interviews
objective 5 will draw from the findings of case studies (NIS) and key informant interviews
objective 6 will draw from the findings of structured workshops.
The main findings of the project will inform the debate on the development trajectories of rural areas. More importantly however, the results of the proposed project will identify instances of best practice in policy-making and explore the potential and conditions necessary in order to replicate it elsewhere. In this way it will have a very significant contribution in influencing decision makers at the local, regional and national level in NIS.

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Programa(s)

• IC-INTAS - International Association for the promotion of cooperation with scientists from the independent states of the former Soviet Union (INTAS), 1993-

Tema(s)

• 7 - Economics, Social and Human Sciences
• OPEN - OPEN Call

Convocatoria de propuestas

Datos no disponibles

Régimen de financiación

Datos no disponibles

Coordinador

University of Macedonia

• Aportación de la UE: Sin datos
• Dirección: 156 Egnatia Street ; 540 06 Thessaloniki ; Grecia
• Coste total: Sin datos

Participantes (4)

Bashkir Academy of Public Administration and Management

Rusia

• Aportación de la UE: Sin datos
• Dirección: 40 Frunze Street ; 450000 Ufa
• Coste total: Sin datos

State University of Novosibirsk

Rusia

• Aportación de la UE: Sin datos
• Dirección: Apt.57, 17, Zolotodolinskaya Street ; 630090 Novosibirsk
• Coste total: Sin datos

State University of Uzhgorod

Ucrania

• Aportación de la UE: Sin datos
• Dirección: Narodna sq.3., app.40 ; 294000 Uzhgorod
• Coste total: Sin datos

University of Luton

Reino Unido

• Aportación de la UE: Sin datos
• Dirección: Hitchin Road ; LU2 8LE Luton
• Coste total: Sin datos