by Marina Andjelkovic | Dec 18, 2025 | Abruzzo, Italy, Burgos, Spain, Druskininkai, Lithuania, Innlandet, Norway, Jablanica i Pčinja District, Leski-Bieszczadzki, Poland, News, Northern Hungary and Northern Great Plain, Hungary, Trento, Italy, Zachodnipomorskie, Poland
The ESIRA project successfully organized its final Scientific Dissemination Workshop for this year, titled “From Collaboration to Action: How Multi-Actor Platforms Shape Rural Innovation”, followed by a Community of Practice (CoP) session entitled “Lessons Learned and...
by Marina Andjelkovic | Dec 12, 2025 | News
20 November 2025. ESIRA and SERIGO projects organised a joint policy workshop held on 20 November 2025 in Brussels, to explore how community-led social innovation can enhance the social inclusion of vulnerable groups in rural areas. Co-organised by the European...
by Marina Andjelkovic | Dec 10, 2025 | Publication
The EU-funded Enhancing Social Innovation in Rural Areas (ESIRA) project aims to develop initiatives within the social economy to better include vulnerable groups in rural communities. In Norway, social enterprises are uncommon, and there is no established legal...
by Marina Andjelkovic | Dec 10, 2025 | Publication
ESIRA, “Enhancing Social Innovation in Rural Areas,” is a European project coordinated by the University of Burgos (UBU) that aims to promote social innovation in rural areas as a tool for rural development. The project is funded by the European Commission through the...
by Marina Andjelkovic | Dec 10, 2025 | Publication
The rural areas in the European Union are facing numerous challenges not only to their development but also to the sustainability of significant number of rural communities. To increase the rural resilience and to fight with rural decline and peripheralization process...