PoliRural: Future Oriented Collaborative Policy Development for Rural Areas and People

Title: Future Oriented Collaborative Policy Development for Rural Areas and People
Short name: PoliRural
Grant agreement no: 818496
Duration: 06/2019 – 05/2022
H2020 topic: Building modern rural policies on long-term visions and societal engagement (RUR-01-2018-2019)
H2020 type of action: Research and Innovation Action
Total budget: 5,999,875 EUR

GAIA EPICHEIRIEN  is a consortium member of a Horizon2020 project called Polirural which is a research and innovation project, designed to advance rural policy development in the age of disruptive data and technologies in order to deliver a trusted, scalable and transferable solution for policy co-creation.  This project will bring together decision makers, experts and rural inhabitants using advanced policy simulation tools to better understand and tackle regional challenges, ultimately making rural areas and professions more attractive and livable for established populations and recent or potential newcomers. There project will try to tackle these 4 objectives:

1. Design a multi-governance policy innovation hub and European ecosystem which strengthens the evidence base for rural policy;
2. Measure prevailing attitudes toward rural policies among regional stakeholders by combining survey research with innovative text mining techniques;
3. Explore the future trajectory of rural development in every participating region using a hybrid foresight approach;
4. Advance the understanding of rural reality as perceived by existing rural populations and recent or potential newcomers.