Objective The element common to many European rural peripheral areas. During the past decade or so appears to be a process of economic restructuring associated with an intensification of employment problems and the marginalisation of certain social and economic strata. Within the context of a growing globalisation of economic activity, entrepreneurship and technological change are perceived. Both by researchers and policy-makers, as key instruments in engineering economic growth. This project sets out to examine, at a European wide level, the actual and potential contribution of entrepreneurial ventures and new technology in stimulating economic development in rural peripheral locations. The underlying aim is to identify instances of best practice. in terms of both public and private initiatives, and to develop a coherent combination of policy objectives facilitating the long-term maintenance of economic vitality in the countryside. Fields of science social scienceseconomics and businessbusiness and managemententrepreneurshipsocial scienceseconomics and businessbusiness and managementemploymentsocial sciencessociologyglobalization Programme(s) FP5-HUMAN POTENTIAL - Programme for research, technological development and demonstration on "Improving the human research potential and the socio-economic knowledge base" (1998-2002) Topic(s) 1.4.1.-4. - Key action Socio-Economic Knowledge Base Call for proposal Data not available Funding Scheme CSC - Cost-sharing contracts Coordinator UNIVERSITY OF MACEDONIA EU contribution No data Address 156,Egnatias 156 54006 THESSALONIKI Greece See on map Total cost No data Participants (4) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all Middlesex University United Kingdom EU contribution No data Address .,Queensway EN3 4SF Enfield See on map Total cost No data UNIVERSITAET HOHENHEIM Germany EU contribution No data Address Schless, Osthof-Sued 78599 Stuttgart See on map Total cost No data UNIVERSITY OF LODZ Poland EU contribution No data Address Rewolucji 1905 r. St. 41 90214 LODZ See on map Total cost No data UNIVERSITY OF LUTON United Kingdom EU contribution No data Address Putteridge Bury, Hitchin Rd LU2 8LE LUTON See on map Total cost No data
