RURALITIES proposes to ideate, implement, futureproof, validate and deliver a panoply of expertise and learning centres via real-scale and project-based activities in six ‘Simplified Rural Socio-ecological Systems’ (SIMSES) as shown in the figure A. The SIMSES serve as a platform upon which the project develops a series of local place-based Innovation and Demonstration Frameworks (IDF) which are projects identified by the consortium and arranged as “demonstrators”: in the region of Marche and Veneto, both in Italy, in Scotland part of the United Kingdom, in the region of Posavje in Slovenia, the region of Asturias in Spain, and in the region of Iaşi in Romania.
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon Europe research and innovation program under grant agreement no 101060876. UK participants in Horizon Europe Project RURALITIES are supported by UKRI grant numbers: 10051963 The Highlands and Islands Transport Partnership and 10050988 Earthwatch Europe.
