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Living Lab – United Kingdom: Rural Scotland

The Scottish Living Lab is run by James Hutton Institute, and it involves organizations responsible for designing and implementing the collection, analysis, use and quality of data for informing development and monitoring of public policy effects. Rural areas of...

Living Lab – Sweden: Regions of North Sweden (Sweden)

The Swedish Living Lab is run by the North Sweden consortium. Created more than 20 years ago, this consortium brings together the four northernmost counties of Sweden, all characterized by similar territorial characteristics. Northern Sweden, being part of the...

Living Lab – Spain: Oruense

The Spanish Living Lab is run by the RIO International Observatory of Rural Research, a laboratory of ideas and projects created in 2019. Ourense is the only landlocked province in Galicia region with about 310,000 inhabitants. Ourense has the lowest birth rate in...

Living Lab- Poland: West Pomerania

The Polish Living Lab builds up on the experience from the Polish SHERPA Multi-Actor Platform. It is situated in the northwestern part of Poland and it operates at regional level. Its territory is diverse and includes suburban, coastal and peripheral areas. These...

Living Lab- Netherlands: P10

The Dutch Living Lab will be run by P10, an inter-municipal network of 31 mostly rural municipalities in the Netherlands, created in 2008, that represent over 1 million Dutch citizens. While P10 municipalities host a vivid agricultural sector, their population is...

Living Lab- Italy: Distretto Rurale Val di Cecina 

The Italian Living Lab is be run by the Val di Cecina Rural District consortium in Tuscany. Val di Cecina is a hilly valley opening to the sea, with about 1055 km2 and 55,900 inhabitants. Its countryside suffers from abandonment as younger generations leave to work in...

Living Lab- France: Pays Pyrénées Méditerranée 

The French Living Lab is run by the LEADER Local Action Group “Pays Pyrénées Méditerranée”, which covers a territory of 1150 km2 and approximately 110,000 inhabitants. Located nearby the French-Spanish border, this territory a great diversity of rural areas. It...