Impact & Innovation
Through its overall approach, RURACTIVE aims to leave sustainable impacts:
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Support rural communities to develop in a sustainable, balanced, inclusive way by improving understanding of environmental, socioeconomic, cultural, and demographic drivers and deploying smart, place-based and inclusive community-led innovations.
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Empower rural communities to act for change by providing a comprehensive digital training, capacity building, knowledge transfer and exchange programme.
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Equip rural communities with smart and community-led solutions comprising a diverse range of innovations.
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Apply an integrated perspective on environmental, economic, and socio-cultural impacts of tourism as crucial assets to sustainably develop rural areas, by leveraging on Nature-based Solutions.
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Support a sustainable transition of the food-supply chain, contributing to make food systems more resilient, healthier and sustainable by enhancing the rural-urban interface.
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Foster sustainable development and ecological transition of coastal areas by involving relevant ecological and geographical dimension in the project.