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Rural Sustainability Transitions through Integration of Knowledge for improved policy processes

Project description

Enabling sustainable transitions in rural areas

Most efforts to increase innovation capacity and encourage sustainable transitions focus on urban areas; rural and remote areas, not considered a priority, typically fall under the radar. However, remote areas are fertile ground for realising the goals of the European Green Deal, the European Digital Strategy and the European Pillar of Social Rights, as well as the EU’s long-term vision for rural areas. Focusing on rural areas’ socioeconomic, climate and digital transition, the EU-funded RUSTIK project aims to enhance existing policy tools and design better initiatives to enable sustainable transitions in those areas. Project efforts include proposals aimed at decision-makers and stakeholders, improved approaches for rural impact assessment and databases incorporating a variety of data to inform better strategies.

Objective

The overarching objective of RUSTIK is to enable rural communities’ actors and policy makers to design better strategies, initiatives and policies fostering sustainability transitions of rural areas, through an advanced understanding of different rural functionalities, characteristics and future scenarios of rural areas, their potentials and challenges.
Central specific objectives are to provide (1) a robust methodological framework for functional rural areas, (2) databases integrating data of different types and sources, (3), improved strategies and governance approaches for rural decision makers and stakeholders, and (4) improved approaches for rural impact assessment and decentralised rural proofing.
RUSTIK aims to substantially contribute to enhancing existing European policy tools and approaches, most of all to support the European Green Deal, the European Digital Strategy, the European pillar of Social Rights and the EU Long-Term Vision for Rural Areas of the European Union.
RUSTIK addresses the topic by illuminating three key transitions in rural areas, i.e. (1) socio-economic, (2) climate change and environmental, and (3) digital. Five types of rural functions are RUSTIK’s starting point for characterising the diversity of rural areas and their capacity to respond to these transitions.
In order to achieve its overarching and specific objectives, RUSTIK will (1) create a conceptual basis for functional rural areas, transition and resilience of rural areas building on previous research, (2) co-design data collection approaches, and (3) investigate policy frameworks and coordination mechanisms. Closely interrelated with all of these activities, Living Labs in 14 European Pilot Regions in 10 European countries will be the central element of an action-oriented multi-actor approach to researching rural diversity and societal transformations.

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Call for proposal

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(opens in new window) HORIZON-CL6-2021-COMMUNITIES-01

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Coordinator

INSTITUT FUER LAENDLICHE STRUKTURFORSCHUNG EV
Net EU contribution

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€ 721 704,28
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KURFUERSTENSTRASSE 49
60486 Frankfurt Am Main
Germany

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SME

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Yes
Region
Hessen Darmstadt Frankfurt am Main, Kreisfreie Stadt
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Research Organisations
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€ 721 704,31

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