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FUTURALOur Vision

FUTURAL aims to deliver a set of digital Smart Solutions (SS) under 5 Smart Solution domains to address pressing social and environmental challenges.

Community-led innovations

Co-design, implement, monitor, and evaluate community-led social and business innovations based on digital smart solutions.

Smart Solutions

Test, pilot, and demonstrate the digital smart solutions for the 5 FUTURAL domains to address social and environmental challenges faced by rural communities.

Capacity Building

Strengthen the capacity of rural communities to realise the potential of community- led innovations based on the proposed SS.

Networking and synergies

Establish synergies with rural innovator and CAP networks, smart villages, organisations, and other projects to enhance relations and knowledge exchange.

Scale-up

Propose policies and governance frameworks to maximise the project’s contribution in achieving future CAP objectives related to smart villages and develop business models to mainstream solutions.

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Community-led
innovations

Co-design, implement, monitor, and evaluate community-led social and business innovations based on digital smart solutions.

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Smart Solutions Domains
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Multi-Actor Pilots (MAPs) across Europe
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MAP workshops for co-creation in rural communities
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Rural stakeholders engaged in co-creation in MAP workshops
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Smart Solutions

Test, pilot, and demonstrate the digital smart solutions for the 5 FUTURAL domains to address social and environmental challenges faced by rural communities.

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Digital Smart Solutions developed during the project
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Proposals funded through an Open Call
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Digital Smart Solutions integrated from other projects
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A Metasearch Platform to search and access solutions from FUTURAL, the open call and other projects
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Capacity Building

Strengthen the capacity of rural communities to realise the potential of community- led innovations based on the proposed SS.

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capacity building workshops in MAPs
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capacity building workshops at European level
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rural stakeholders engaged in capacity building workshops
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Networking and synergies

Establish synergies with rural innovator and CAP networks, smart villages, organisations, and other projects to enhance relations and knowledge exchange.

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EU-wide Rural Innovation Forums (EU-RIF) for expertise sharing, capacity building and scale - up
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synergies with rural innovator networks
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synergies with national CAP networks
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Synergies with Smart Villages
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Synergies with other EU funded projects
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Scale-up

Propose policies and governance frameworks to maximise the project’s contribution in achieving future CAP objectives related to smart villages and develop business models to mainstream solutions.

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policy-makers involved in co-creation of policy recommendations
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Policy recommendations supporting social capital, social networks, social economy and social innovation
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business models developed
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Practice abstracts reporting social, technological and business innovations

FUTURAL's Results

For more resilient and sustainable rural areas, better connected and capable of improving their citizens’ well-being



Smart Solutions

consisting of a set of

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Digital Smart Solutions
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Different Domains

OC smart solutions

to extend the smart solutions portfolio

Metasearch Platform

integrating Smart Solutions & offering matchmaking capabilities

Inclusive business models

enabling upscaling and replicability of Smart Solutions

Policy guidelines and Governance Frameworks

aiming to enhance rural communities’ ability to evolve

Ecosystem and capacity building

enabling co-creation of innovations and motivating rural stakeholders
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