12. Mai 2021

In its efforts of reaching out to rural change-makers CERUSI Partnership will set up a series of three webinars.

In its two-year-long implementation cycle, the CERUSI-Project aims at both the transfer of skills as well as the improvement of competences of rural social entrepreneurs and actors of the regional innovation ecosystem alike. By the means of the upcoming webinar series, the partnership will open the discussion to three thematic fields that we deem to be of overarching importance for the future integration of social innovations as a sustainable strategy for rural development.

By building on the “border” metaphor the webinars build on a critical trajectory that shapes the implementation of social innovation in rural regions in various aspects (“triple-border-trajectory”): for one, their relative marginalisation through administrative/natural borders and tendencies of reinforcement of these (e.g. proliferated through the Covid19 crises), further their organisational thinness as regards the innovation ecosystem and finally their manifold (inter)dependencies on urban areas.

Therefore, during the exchange with experts and practitioners we seek to highlight potential leverage points for a more nuanced and positive future development in the frame of this trajectory that highlights good pathways and best practices in the fields of a) the development of and cooperation across rural border regions, b) the fostering of rural social innovations through public-private-partnerships and c) the potentials of social innovation for the integration of rural and urban regions in the development of a European circular economy.

The following three webinars are forseen:

1^st Webinar: “Social Innovation for the integration of Central Europe’s rural border regions” (May 26^th,15.00-16.30)

2^nd Webinar: “Fostering of rural social innovations through public-public-partnerships” (Date tbc)

3^rd Webinar: “The potentials of social innovation for the integration of rural and urban regions in the development of European circular economy” (Date tbv)

Please register for the 1st webinar using the following link: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/cerusi-webinar-series-the-borders-of-rural-social-innovation-13-tickets-154512919301

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• Projekt: Central European Rural Social Innovation