{"id":27478,"date":"2026-04-21T12:44:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T12:44:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/futural-project.eu\/?p=27478"},"modified":"2026-05-18T06:40:57","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T06:40:57","slug":"futural-2nd-policy-webinar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/futural-project.eu\/nl\/futural-2nd-policy-webinar\/","title":{"rendered":"FUTURAL 2nd Policy Webinar &#8211; From Smart Villages to systemic uptake: policy pathways for rural innovation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The second EU Rural Innovation Forum (EU-RIF) online session will focus on the&nbsp;<strong>policy and ecosystem conditions<\/strong>&nbsp;that enable the uptake, scaling and transferability of rural innovation approaches emerging from Smart Villages and related initiatives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Building on the learnings on smart rurality emerged from discussions and hands\u2011on experiences developed by FUTURAL partners, this online session will translate practical experiences into structured policy insights. It will e<strong>xplore the governance mechanisms, policy frameworks and innovation support structures&nbsp;<\/strong>needed to move from local experimentation to wider and more systemic uptake in rural areas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The discussion will bring together<strong>&nbsp;FUTURAL partners, sister projects, policy&nbsp;stakeholders and EU-level actors<\/strong>, contributing to<strong> policy recommendations<\/strong>&nbsp;for smart rurality&nbsp;in support of post-2027 EU programming debates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Objectives<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This&nbsp;FUTURAL EU-RIF 2 online session aims to:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Contribute evidence-based insights to&nbsp;<strong>FUTURAL policy recommendations<\/strong>&nbsp;and strengthen synergies across EU rural innovation initiatives.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Present and discuss key insights emerging from <strong>the discussions around smart rurality<\/strong><\/strong>, including challenges, enabling conditions and policy gaps identified across Smart Villages and rural innovation practices.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Identify&nbsp;<strong>key policy and governance factors<\/strong>&nbsp;enabling the uptake of rural innovation in different territorial contexts.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Exchange experiences with sister projects<\/strong>&nbsp;on policy learning, scaling pathways and interoperability opportunities.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Contribute to the&nbsp;<strong>validation of governance and policy proposals<\/strong>, including aspects related to scaling, funding and cross-project policy instruments.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The second EU Rural Innovation Forum (EU-RIF) online session will focus on the&nbsp;policy and ecosystem conditions&nbsp;that enable the uptake, scaling and transferability of rural innovation approaches emerging from Smart Villages&hellip;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":27482,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":162,"footnotes":""},"categories":[252,234],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-eu-rif-2","category-event"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/futural-project.eu\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/futural-project.eu\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/futural-project.eu\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futural-project.eu\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futural-project.eu\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27478"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/futural-project.eu\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27531,"href":"https:\/\/futural-project.eu\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27478\/revisions\/27531"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futural-project.eu\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/futural-project.eu\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futural-project.eu\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futural-project.eu\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}