Rural areas face challenges such as a shortage of highly skilled labour and economic competitiveness, an increasingly ageing population, poor accessibility and declining quality of public services. Insufficient resources and capacity hinder effective policy responses to this broad challenge.
RurALL will develop a multi-stakeholder governance model to support rural areas in addressing this challenge. Using a cross-sectoral and interdisciplinary approach and supported by intensive community engagement activities based on the principles of the New European Bauhaus, the project will present vacant housing as a tool and potential to address rural depopulation.
In this process, ZSI will help to find ideas for vacant, underused buildings in need of renovation in order to (re)revitalise the area. ZSI will work with the municipality of Eberau in Burgenland, Austria, to carry out the pilot activities and identify and utilise buildings with potential through community engagement activities.
