RURAL TRANSITION LABS - INTERREG SUDOE
Lead Partner
RURENER
Funding
Interreg SUDOE
Date
01/01/24 - 31/12/26
Project partners: Comunidade Intermunicipal do Ave, Portugal; Municipality da Povoa de Lanhoso, Portugal; Ayuntamiento de Cartagena, Spain; Technological Center for Energy and Environment of the Region of Murcia (CETENMA), Spain; Polytecnic University of Catalunya (UPC), Spain; Syndicat Est Creuse Développement, France.
What is a Rural Transition Lab?
It is a rural hub that facilitates and catalyzes a transdisciplinary collaborative space for actors with the goal of achieving long term sustainability, increasing resilience of rural areas based on a shared vision of the territory’s future. It is promoted and supported by public bodies to enhance the transition capacity of the rural area. It promotes participatory processes, peer-to-peer exchanges and collaborative tools to co-construct innovative approaches to address sustainability challenges taking into account all of its dimensions (Ecological, Social, Economic, Cultural and Inner).
What do the Rural Labs do?
The Rural Transition Labs bring support to local actors contributing to territorial transitions, this support can include:
– Capacity-building to public and private actors and resource bank
– Facilitation of participative processes to encourage coconstructed projects
– Sharing of return of experiences based on projects implemented to inspire local project leaders
– Dissemination of collective tools to facilitate project building or mutualization
– Promotion of the community at European scale, through the network of Rural Transition Labs animated by RURENER,
to open new perspectives (for funding and partnerships)
The Labs also drive transition projects, contributing to the local transition dynamic.
Why become a Rural Transition Lab?
By becoming a Rural Transition Lab you embrace a systemic approach of rural transitions, you build capacity on the conduct and driving of territorial transitions and you become the local hub that connects actors and projects to ensure territorial cohesion. In order to do so, you can use:
– The Rural Transition Labs stategy developed jointly by the project partners to define your own local transition strategy
– The toolbox and capacity-building materials to better understand the challenges of implementing systemic change
– The Catalogue of Solutions experimented by the Labs that you can use, whether you enter the network or not.
