Since February 2020, Interreg Central Europe’s project CERUSI has implemented Rural Social Innovation Lab Caravans to build skills and capacities for social innovation and social entrepreneurship. Rural regions in Central Europe often lack support structures to keep people in the region. Contrary to urban areas, there are few accelerator hubs or other options that offer support to people who want to change something for the better in their community. Therefore, CERUSI has adopted the innovative approach of RSI_LAB Caravans, bringing the project to the people, harvesting challenges in their communities, their ideas and providing a temporary support framework that is envisioned to be transformed into a partnership between local actors interested in bringing their region forward and their like-minded peers all over CE.
The final event will not only discuss the project’s main outputs and findings, but also launch the CERUSI Partnership Network, a network of actors who share a common vision to improve social innovation ecosystems in rural areas throughout Central Europe.
For more information about the project, please refer to CERUSI’s website (https://www.interreg-central.eu/Content.Node/CERUSI.html) or Twitter account (https://twitter.com/CerusiEurope).
