{"id":25634,"date":"2025-01-15T13:17:07","date_gmt":"2025-01-15T13:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/futural-project.eu\/?p=25634"},"modified":"2026-01-16T08:41:23","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T08:41:23","slug":"eu-rural-innovation-forum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/futural-project.eu\/it\/eu-rural-innovation-forum\/","title":{"rendered":"EU Rural Innovation Forum"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Context<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/futural-project.eu\/it\/\">FUTURAL (Empowering the future through innovative smart solutions for rural areas)<\/a> is an EU &#8211; funded innovation project led by the Agricultural University of Athens, involving 21 partners across Europe. The project aims to test and pilot a set of community-led, social, technological, and business innovations designed to create lasting change through collaboration with rural communities.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Within this context, the project will organise its first <strong>EU-wide Rural Innovation Forum (EU-RIF)<\/strong>, a two-day networking event bringing together stakeholders from the rural ecosystem (FUTURAL Multi-Actor Pilots &#8211; MAPs, rural innovators, rural networks, policymakers and implementers, EU-funded projects, organisations, and entrepreneurs) &nbsp;aiming to set the groundwork for capacity building and expertise sharing on smart community-led innovation in rural areas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Objectives<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>The EU-RIF meeting aims to:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Increase the capacity of rural communities<\/strong> to implement and adopt social, technological, and business innovations by organising a series of workshops on capacity building and policy\/governance frameworks.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Present and share experiences<\/strong> from the co-creation of innovations in the MAPs.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Introduce the <strong>Alpha version of the FUTURAL Smart Solutions and Metasearch Platform<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Maximise the interaction and knowledge sharing<\/strong> between FUTURAL MAPs, partners, and participating experts from within and outside the project.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:40px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>To see the agenda click <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1eJ6v5oDSkEmCPVfcbDKbSMPaAYa-X2sJ\/view\">here<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For questions, contact: <a href=\"mailto:futural.eurif@aeidl.eu\">futural.eurif@aeidl.eu<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:40px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1M3UCU9TLpRPg63QptNdr5_QWMYqvtIoh\/view\">Info on EU-RIF Sessions<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Context FUTURAL (Empowering the future through innovative smart solutions for rural areas) is an EU &#8211; funded innovation project led by the Agricultural University of Athens, involving 21 partners across&hellip;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25821,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":2280,"footnotes":""},"categories":[251,234,90,221],"tags":[217,218],"class_list":["post-25634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-eu-rif-1","category-event","category-news","category-project-news","tag-futural","tag-rural-areas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/futural-project.eu\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/futural-project.eu\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/futural-project.eu\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futural-project.eu\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futural-project.eu\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25634"}],"version-history":[{"count":27,"href":"https:\/\/futural-project.eu\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27312,"href":"https:\/\/futural-project.eu\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25634\/revisions\/27312"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futural-project.eu\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/futural-project.eu\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futural-project.eu\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futural-project.eu\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}