Author: Serafin Pazos Vidal (AEIDL) On 11 October GRANULAR presented the state of play of the project at the event We’re staying in rural areas: practices, policies and tools for thriving regions. This is part of the European Week of Regions and Cities (EWRC) the...
Our GRANULAR Living Lab in Ourense, Spain, has succeeded in bringing young students from Galicia together for a day focused on Europeanism and rural development. On 13 September, the municipalities of San Xoán de Río and Trives de Galicia (Spain) in Ourense hosted an...
Author: Marco Ricci, Italian Living Lab in GRANULAR Situated in Val di Cecina, the Italian Living Lab covers an area of about 1,055 km2 with 55,900 inhabitants that stretches from a hilly valley to the seacoast. Marco Ricco, facilitator of this Living Lab on behalf of...
Author: Carlos Tapia, Nordregio Web scraping Web scraping is a method for mechanically gathering data from webpages. It entails utilizing software to extract data from online pages, including text, photos, and tables. Web scraping can be used to collect pertinent...
Authors: Mats Stjernberg, Gustaf Norlén, Anna Vasilevskaya & Carlos Tapia, Nordregio In this blog post, Mats Stjernberg, Gustaf Norlén, Anna Vasilevskaya, Carlos Tapia from Nordregio, one of the GRANULAR partners, present some of the key considerations towards...
Author: Louise Chasset, French Living Lab in GRANULAR Pays Pyrénées Méditerranée is a rural territory characterized by great diversity, from coastal to mountainous areas, nearby the French-Spanish border. It covers a territory of 1150 km2 and it represents...
Author: Carla Lostrangio, European Association for Innovation in Local Development (AEIDL) In 2022, the 8th Cohesion Report of the European Commission warned about the widening gap between urban and rural areas. Territorial imbalances and territorial divides in...
Authors: Martin Hofer & Ian McCallum, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) Over the past half year, the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) and other GRANULAR partners have been leading efforts on screening more...
Author: Heleen Huiskamp, Dutch Living Lab in GRANULAR In this blog post, our Living Lab in the Netherlands tells us a bit more about their own rural area and what move them to join this international project. Why have you decided to be part of the GRANULAR project?...
On 15th March, the European Committee of the Regions (CoR) voted the Opinion on “Targets and Tools for a Smart Rural Europe”. This Opinion was presented by CoR’s rapporteur on the EU Long-Term Vision for Rural Areas, Radim Srsen, who is also Mayor of the Municipality...
