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Horizon 2020 projects

SHERPA | Sustainable Hub to Engage into Rural Policies with Actors

SHERPA aims to gather knowledge that contributes to the formulation of recommendations for future policies relevant to EU rural areas, by creating a science-society-policy interface.

DESIRA | Digitalisation: Economic and Social Impacts on Rural Areas

DESIRA aims to improve the capacity of society and political bodies to respond to the challenges that digitalisation generates in agriculture, forestry and rural areas.

POLIRURAL | Future Oriented Collaborative Policy Development for Rural Areas and People

PoliRural aims to provide the needed knowledge by combining several key activities to design effective place-based, human-centric and forward-looking rural policies.

LIAISON | Better Rural Innovation: Linking Actors, Instruments and Policies through Networks

LIAISON aims to help unlock the potential of “working in partnership for innovation” in agriculture, forestry and rural business.

RURALIZATION | The opening of rural areas to renew rural generations, jobs and farms

RURALIZATION aims at triggering a process of ruralisation, that is, a development towards a new rural frontier where new generations find economic and social opportunities.

RUBIZMO | Replicable business models for modern rural economies

RUBIZMO is a new European initiative working to discover the vital ingredients for developing entrepreneurship and successful business models in rural areas.

NEWBIE | New Entrant netWork: Business models for Innovation, entrepreneurship and resilience in European agriculture

The NEWBIE network has been designed to address the significant challenge of enabling new entrants to successfully establish sustainable farm businesses in Europe.

PHUSICOS | ‘According to nature’ – solutions to reduce risk in mountain landscapes

PHUSICOS, meaning ‘According to nature’ in Greek, demonstrates how nature-based solutions (NBSs) provide robust, sustainable and cost-effective measures for reducing the risk of extreme weather events in rural mountain landscapes.

Other projects

MIDMACC Life project | Mid-mountain adaptation to climate change

MIDMACC aims to promote adaptation through the implementation and testing of different landscape management measures to meet climate change related challenges in marginal mid-mountain areas of Spain, while improving their socioeconomic development.

OREKA MENDIAN Life project

OREKA MENDIAN aims to develop a preservation strategy in mountain pasture environments, beginning with maintaining its traditional use.

MONTCLIMA Interreg SUDOE programme

The MONTCLIMA project will develop the first transnational strategic framework for prevention and management of natural hazards in mountain areas for the SUDOE territory.

SCALABLE | Social-ecological pathways and gender perspectives for future conservation of biocultural mountain agro-ecosystem

SCALABLE’s project will identify how gender equity can promote pathways for the future conservation of mountain agricultural landscapes in the biocultural regions of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in southern Spain.