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Future Oriented Collaborative Policy Development for Rural Areas and People

Project description

Action for the future of rural populations

The landscape of rural areas is changing rapidly. Some changes are invisible yet irreversible, such as shrinking rural populations or biodiversity changes. Policymakers need the right tools to address these changes. The EU-funded PoliRural project will provide a comparative assessment of challenges facing rural areas and people, as well as measures adopted by regional actors to tackle them. It will bring together decision-makers, experts and rural inhabitants and will use advanced policy simulation tools to better understand and tackle regional challenges, ultimately making rural areas and professions more attractive and livable for established populations and recent or potential newcomers.

Objective

Changes in rural areas, such as depopulation, land abandonment and the loss of biodiversity, may proceed very slowly yet are often irreversible. Policymakers can steer these developments in order to reduce their negative impacts but this requires knowing whether current policy instruments are effective, who is benefiting from them and in what measure, what driving forces will be most influential and how they will affect people, planet, profits and land-use. To be truly useful, this knowledge must transcend siloed thinking and be the corollary of a joint effort uniting different actors under a common cause. PoliRur will provide this knowledge by combining several key activities needed to design effective place-based, human-centric and forward-looking rural policies. These include actionable research that takes place within an inclusive learning environment where rural populations, researchers and policymakers come together to address common problems; an evaluation exercise that uses text mining to assess the perceived effectiveness of past or planned policy interventions; and a foresight study that tries to glean the development trajectory of agriculture and its allied sectors until 2040 using several scenarios in which the evolution of rural populations occupies a central place. As a result of these activities, PoliRur will leave decision makers at different levels of government better equipped to tackle existing and emerging rural challenges, rural populations more empowered and rural areas more resilient.

Call for proposal

H2020-RUR-2018-2020

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Sub call

H2020-RUR-2018-2

Coordinator

CESKA ZEMEDELSKA UNIVERZITA V PRAZE
Net EU contribution
€ 331 950,98
Address
KAMYCKA 129 SUCHDOL
165 00 Praha
Czechia

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Region
Česko Praha Hlavní město Praha
Activity type
Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
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Total cost
€ 331 951,26

Participants (42)