Descrizione del progetto
Imprenditorialità sociale e risoluzione innovativa dei problemi nelle regioni rurali strutturalmente deboli
Le regioni rurali strutturalmente carenti devono affrontare vari problemi sociali ed economici, tra questi il più significativo è la limitata produzione di beni e servizi e la perdita di abitanti giovani e altamente qualificati. Il progetto RURACTION, finanziato dalle azioni Marie Skłodowska-Curie, intende aprire la strada all’innovazione sociale nelle regioni rurali. La rete di ricerca e formazione riunirà accademici di fama e professionisti esperti delle imprese sociali al fine di contribuire con la loro esperienza alle scuole di primavera, ai seminari autunnali sulle competenze e ai distacchi intersettoriali. Verranno analizzati i vari modi in cui agiscono gli operatori che creano e implementano innovazioni sociali con mezzi imprenditoriali, al fine di valutare il loro impatto sul conferimento di responsabilità della comunità. Ciò consentirà loro di ricevere supporto nelle attività di risoluzione dei problemi.
Obiettivo
Structurally weak rural regions are faced with major social and economic problems. In comparison to urban or intermediate regions, predominantly rural regions are economically less productive and they provide a less extensive scope of desired goods and services. As a consequence, the regions experience a loss of inhabitants, especially of young and highly skilled people. Thus, downward spirals are set in motion that further reduce economic opportunities and prevent rural regions from overcoming their structural deficits.
The proposed RURACTION research and training network focuses on socially innovative solutions to these rural problems developed by social entrepreneurs. Social entrepreneurs are understood as practitioners who create and implement social innovations by entrepreneurial means. The question arises under which conditions they operate, how they organise solutions, how they network and empower residents, which impacts they actually have on rural development, and how they can be supported in their problem-solving activities.
The European Commission identifies the subject of social innovation in rural regions as a research gap. RURACTION intends to fill this gap. The research and training network brings together highly acknowledged academics and very experienced practitioners from social enterprises to contribute their expertise in this field (e.g. with spring schools, autumn skills seminars and cross-sectoral secondments). It strives to achieve excellent research results and aims at qualifying early stage researcher as equally scientifically and practically skilled experts for social entrepreneurship and social innovations in rural regions – be it in order to conduct further research in this complex scientific field, to professionally support and promote initiatives of existing social entrepreneurial organisations, and/or to professionally start their own initiatives and social enterprises.
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MSCA-ITN-ETN - European Training NetworksCoordinatore
15537 Erkner
Germania