RURBANIVE
Date: 1. 1. 2024 – 31. 12. 2027
Project description
The RURBANIVE project aims to address regional inequalities and promote urban-rural synergies. At its core, it will create a dynamic digital space – the so-called “Community Store” – that will serve as a hub for experimentation, innovation and co-creation, supporting two-way communication between urban and rural communities. Experimentation and innovation in rural-urban areas will be supported by exploiting the possibilities of augmented reality. To strengthen territorial governance and existing policy instruments, RURBANIVE will introduce a new rural-urban innovation framework supported by technical and social innovations.
RURBANIVE will develop 6 Rural-Urban Enablers (RUEs), innovations in six areas that will support two-way rural-urban synergies and a thriving economy.
Immersive campaigns based on collaborative activities will be adapted to the potential of the seven Rural-Urban Co-creation Labs (RUCLs) and will enable interaction between the countryside and the city through better social connectivity and experimentation. The 7 RUCLs represent different geographical and socio-cultural contexts of the European Union. Rural-Urban Immersiveness (RUI) will ensure that different stakeholders are involved in the process of prototyping, testing, piloting and presenting the results of RURBANIVE.
Project start: 1. 1. 2024
Project completion: 31. 12. 2027
Involvement of CZU
CULS will develop and implement a digital platform that aims to function and serve as a socially driven digital hub that connects a wide range of stakeholders across the agri-food value chain to support the shortening of value chains. The intention is to move from a digital marketplace, which currently dominates the state-of-the-art digital platform related to the short value chain, to a hub enabling broad social engagement, where stakeholders can obtain better information and education/training on the shortening of value chains and logistics, as well as on the certification processes of agri-food products.
At the same time, practical workshops will be held in the premises of the Agricultural Product Processing Training Center (Food Pavilion), actively involving participants in physical and virtual activities to enable practical understanding of issues related to the benefits of short value chains, food product certification processes, food traceability and price transparency. The integration of data from different datasets and at different levels into the platform will facilitate the acquisition of the necessary information for producers, consumers and other stakeholders.
The Department of Information Technologies of the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration and the Faculty of Agrobiology, Food and Natural Resources are participating in the project.
RURBANIVE received funding from the European Union's Horizon Europe Research and Innovation Program under grant agreement no. 101136597 under the call HORIZON-CL6-2023-COMMUNITIES-01.
Website: Official RURBANIVE website
Partners:
- EREVNITIKO PANEPISTIMIAKO INSTITOUTO SYSTIMATON EPIKOINONION KAI YPOLOGISTON (ICCS)
- GEOPONIKO PANEPISTIMION ATHINON (AUA)
- CARTIF FOUNDATION (CARTIF),
- RISE RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF SWEDEN AB (RISE)
- FOODSCALE HUB GREECE ASSOCIATION FOR ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND INNOVATION ASTIKI MI KERDOSKOPIKI ETAIREIA (FSH)
- ASSOCIATION EUROPEENNE POUR L'INNOVATION DANS LE DEVELOPPEMENT LOCAL (AEIDL)
- CZECH AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY IN PRAGUE (CZU)
- ALCHEMIA-NOVA RESEARCH & INNOVATION GEMEINNUTZIGE GMBH (ALCHEMIA)
- AgriFood Lithuania DIH (AFL)
- IMERYS VIOMICHANIKA ORYKTA ELLAS MONOPROSOPI ANONYMI ETAIREIA (IMERYS)
- THE LISBON COUNCIL FOR ECONOMIC COMPETITIVENESS ASBL (LC),
- ANAPTYXIAKI ETAIREIA DIMOU TRIKKAION ANAPTYXIAKI ANONYMI ETAIREIA OTA (TRIKALA)
- KEDAINIU RAJONO SAVIVALDYBES ADMINISTRATION (KDM)
- PERIFEREIA NOTIOU AIGAIOU (SAR)
- INNOVATION CAMPUS LEMGO EV (ICL)
- PARTENARIAT POUR L'EUROPE RURALE (PREPARE)
- BIOBASE GMBH (BioBASE)
However, the views expressed are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the European Union or the European Research Agency. Neither the European Union nor the funding body can be held responsible for them.