Local Dynamos Host Fourth RURACTIVE Workshop to Showcase Innovation and Empower Communities

The fourth round of local workshops of the RURACTIVE project were successfully held over the past weeks, organised by the twelve Dynamos with a strong focus on rural innovation and community collabo...

RURACTIVE Dynamos Host Third Local Workshop to Refine and Evaluate Their Innovative Rural Development Solutions

During March and April 2025, the third round of RURACTIVE Dynamo Local Workshops brought together over 200 local stakeholders across the 12 Rural Innovation Ecosystems. Community members, innovative...

RURACTIVE Consortium Gathers in Zadar for 2025 Annual Progress Meeting

From the 7th – 11th of April the RURACTIVE project marked a pivotal milestone as 29 partners from across Europe convened in Zadar, Croatia, for its annual Progress Meeting and fifth Knowledge Transfe...

RURACTIVE Unveils New Video Highlighting Project Objectives and Anticipated Impact

RURACTIVE is a forward-thinking Horizon Europe project working to revitalise rural areas through inclusive innovation and community-driven development. The newly released project video outlines RURACT...

Solutions to address the most pressing rural challenges: RURACTIVE Dynamos continue their journey towards a more sustainable future

Throughout January and February 2025, the RURACTIVE Dynamos held another round of successful workshops with their local stakeholders. This second local workshop, titled ‘Learning from Others’, built...

ESRS Congress: Call for academic abstracts on social innovation in rural areas

Submit your abstract until 14th of February 2025!

The RURACTIVE partners University of Pisa, University of Bologna, and the James Hutton Institute of the two Horizon Europe sister projects, F...

The RURACTIVE Forum launches soon: First meeting in February 2025 for smart, community-led rural innovation in Europe

We are delighted to invite you to the first meeting of the RURACTIVE Forum, an online space dedicated to fostering knowledge exchange, collaboration, and meaningful discussions on the future of rural...

Innovative solutions for rural challenges - RURACTIVE Open Call for Innovators launches

The RURACTIVE Open call for Innovators is now open. RURACTIVE invites Startups, Small and Medium-sized Enterprises as well as researchers to apply for the exciting opportunity to co-develop innovative...

RURACTIVE Dynamos shape visions for their rural areas

Throughout September and October Dynamos invited the communities of their Rural Innovation Ecosystem for their first local workshop, titled 'vision and challenges'. The workshop is part of a series of...

Online webinar on post-2027 EU policies

RURACTIVE project partner AEIDL – the European Association for Innovation in Local Development – is organising the online webinar ‘Ensuring that the EU policies are (really) smart and sustainable’ o...

RURACTIVE consortium meets for interactive progress meeting in Zamora

In September 2024, RURACTIVE hosted its third progress meeting and knowledge transfer workshop in the beautiful town of Zamora, Spain. The event was hosted by project partner Diputación de Zamora who...

RURACTIVE Open Days – successful project kick-off in all local Dynamos

RURACTIVE has now officially kicked off in all its 12 local Dynamos. Over the summer of 2024, Dynamos held interactive Open Days for and with their local communities to introduce the project. Empowe...

Progress meeting April 2024 – The RURACTIVE consortium meets in Visby

After kicking off project activities in September 2023, the RURACTIVE consortium came together from 11-12th April 2023 for their first progress meeting at the Gotland Campus of the University of Uppsa...

Ruractive Project Launched - Empowering rural communities to act for change

Empowering Rural Communities to Act for a Just and Sustainable Transition of Rural Areas in Europe

On the 13-15th of September 2023, the research project RURACTIVE officially kicked off its activiti...