Project description
Action for the future of rural populations
The landscape of rural areas is changing rapidly. Some changes are invisible yet irreversible, such as shrinking rural populations or biodiversity changes. Policymakers need the right tools to address these changes. The EU-funded PoliRural project will provide a comparative assessment of challenges facing rural areas and people, as well as measures adopted by regional actors to tackle them. It will bring together decision-makers, experts and rural inhabitants and will use 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.
Objective
Changes in rural areas, such as depopulation, land abandonment and the loss of biodiversity, may proceed very slowly yet are often irreversible. Policymakers can steer these developments in order to reduce their negative impacts but this requires knowing whether current policy instruments are effective, who is benefiting from them and in what measure, what driving forces will be most influential and how they will affect people, planet, profits and land-use. To be truly useful, this knowledge must transcend siloed thinking and be the corollary of a joint effort uniting different actors under a common cause. PoliRur will provide this knowledge by combining several key activities needed to design effective place-based, human-centric and forward-looking rural policies. These include actionable research that takes place within an inclusive learning environment where rural populations, researchers and policymakers come together to address common problems; an evaluation exercise that uses text mining to assess the perceived effectiveness of past or planned policy interventions; and a foresight study that tries to glean the development trajectory of agriculture and its allied sectors until 2040 using several scenarios in which the evolution of rural populations occupies a central place. As a result of these activities, PoliRur will leave decision makers at different levels of government better equipped to tackle existing and emerging rural challenges, rural populations more empowered and rural areas more resilient.
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165 00 Praha
Czechia
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150 00 Praha 5
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330 12 Horni Briza
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110 00 Praha 1
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949 76 Nitra
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949 01 NITRA
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95006 Nitra
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014 01 BYTCA
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974 01 Banska Bystrica
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2160 Saulkrasti
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4101 Cesis Cesu Nov
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4126 Priekuli
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3275 Dundagas
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18545 Peiraias
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185 45 PIRAEUS
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118 55 ATHINA
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35131 Lamia
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4150 356 Porto
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11016 KIRYAT SHEMONA
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W11 1PG London
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71121 Foggia
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1337 Sandvika
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1050 Bruxelles / Brussel
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1000 Bruxelles / Brussel
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8010 Graz
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2595 DA Den Haag
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02150 Espoo
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20009 DONOSTIA-SAN SEBASTIAN (GIPUZKOA)
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2400 Mol
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Skopje-Centar
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9586 Villach
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28006 Madrid
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28037 MADRID
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28010 Madrid
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13100 Hameenlinna
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05-822 Milanowek
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. LIMERICK
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76014 Spinazzola
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71121 Foggia
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1000 SKOPJE, KARPOSH
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15320 Lahti
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