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Expression of Interest
Apply until 31st of May 2025

ADDITIONAL DYNAMOS – EXPRESSION OF INTEREST

Express your interest until 31st of May 2025 to become an Additional RURACTIVE Dynamo and learn from the RURACTIVE project!

RURACTIVE currently engages 12 case study areas, also known as Dynamos, who are applying a community-led development methodology to design and implement rural sustainable development solutions throughout their regions around Europe. These Dynamos - local agents of change, innovative enterprises, and organisations - ensure that change is rooted in local needs and delivers lasting impact.

The project and subsequent solutions focus on six key Rural Development Drivers complemented by four key cross-cutting priorities to further intertwine with all aspects of the project to ensure a sustainable and just transitions for all.

Each rural development solution being developed strives to integrate four main forms of innovation.

Through pilot projects, capacity-sharing programmes and knowledge-sharing platforms, RURACTIVE showcases how rural innovation can address global challenges like climate change and inequality. The project aims to create a replicable model for sustainable rural development across Europe and beyond.

To further upscale and replicate the RURACTIVE smart and community-led innovation process, RURACTIVE is looking to find nine (9) additional rural communities across Europe and beyond to undertake their own community development process.

Through the implementation of the RURACTIVE methodology, each community that will be selected as Additional Dynamo will benefit from RURACTIVE support to be able to progress to a stage at which they have the practices and processes in place to begin implementing their own development.

Selected additional Dynamos will be taught the knowledge and skills needed to establish local multi-actor Rural Innovation Ecosystems and implement specific solutions in their own context.

WHY YOU SHOULD APPLY

If your rural territory is selected as an Additional Dynamo, you will have the possibility to learn from the 12 current RURACTIVE Dynamos and access knowledge and development practices generated throughout the project. This includes:

  • Access to the RURACTIVE e-learning platform
  • You will be taught the RURACTIVE Methodology "Activating Rural Innovation Ecosystems for community-led development and empowerment”
  • An invitation to two RURACTIVE in-person meetings (funded by RURACTIVE)

    1. A two-day workshop run by the University of Bologna, where you will be taught the RURACTIVE methodology that was developed and implemented by the 12 RURACTIVE Dynamos (up to 800€ will be reimbursed per Additional Dynamos for travel and accommodation)

    2. The RURACTIVE final conference, taking place in Brussels, Belgium, in August 2027, where you will present your results and network with all RURACTIVE partners (up to 900€ will be reimbursed per Additional Dynamos for travel and accommodation)

  • Possibility to join other RURACTIVE project meetings (costs covered at own expense)
  • Networking with like-minded organisations from similar areas around Europe and beyond.
  • Great coverage for your Dynamo through the RURACTIVE communication channels!

WHAT YOU NEED TO BRING TO THE TABLE TO BE ABLE TO PARTICIPATE

You need to be…

  • A rural community (legal entity such as a municipality, regional authority, development agency, NGO, etc.)
    • or SME, start-up
    • or research organisation
  • and be located in a country eligible for Horizon Europe projects.

HOW YOU CAN APPLY

Please submit your application via EUSurvey link.