Rural areas are under pressure. Despite being home to more than a quarter of Europe’s population and providing more than one fifth of all EU jobs, the old-fashioned image of the rural idyll is seemingly no longer valid. Over the past twenty-five years, rural regions have experienced a rapidly shrinking population as people, especially young adults, have migrated to cities with the lure of better paid jobs, modern affordable homes and more exciting lifestyles.
PoliRural is a H2020 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. It brings 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.
Learn more about PoliRural project results:
https://polirural.eu/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/D7.12.Toolbox.pdf
PoliRural Toolbox (D7.12.) presents PoliRural main concept, objectives, methodology and pilots where this methodology is being tested. It also presents PoliRural main topics and tools:
•Action oriented foresight for rural planning
•Semantic Explorer: a Text Mining tool for Smart Research
•System Dynamics Modelling for enhanced rural planning
•Mission oriented regional development: opportunities and challenges
