FUTURAL EU Rural Innovation Forum
Description
FUTURAL (Powering the Future through Smart and Innovative Solutions for Rural Areas) is an EU-funded innovation project led by the Agricultural University of Athens, involving 21 partners from across Europe. The project seeks to test and pilot a set of community-led social, technological, and business innovations designed to generate lasting change through collaboration with rural communities.
In this context, the project will organize its first EU-wide Rural Innovation Forum , a two-day networking event bringing together stakeholders from the rural ecosystem (such as FUTURAL multi-stakeholder pilot projects -MAPs-, rural innovators, rural networks, policy makers and implementers, EU-funded projects, organizations and entrepreneurs) with the aim of laying the groundwork for capacity building and experience sharing on smart community-led innovation in rural areas.
Goals
- To increase the capacity of rural communities to implement and adopt social, technological, and commercial innovations by organizing a series of workshops on capacity development and policy and governance frameworks.
- Present and share experiences of co-creating innovations in multi-stakeholder pilot projects (MAPs).
- Introducing the Alpha version of the FUTURAL Smart Solutions and Metasearch Platform.
- Maximize interaction and knowledge exchange among FUTURAL's MAPs, partners, and participating experts within and outside the project.