SERVITISING RURAL HERIGTAGE: SOCIAL INNOVATION AND THE SOCIAL ECONOMY IN PERIPHERAL EUROPE

by Marina Andjelkovic | Aug 12, 2026 | Publication

This study examines the Lithuanian spa town of Druskininkai as an analytically informative case for exploring how community initiatives reinterpret heritage as a basis for social innovation and economic diversification. It conceptualises rural heritage servitisation...

BUILDING SOCIAL ENTERPRISES FROM THE GROUND UP

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...

SOCIAL INNOVATION IN RURAL AREAS (INNOVACION SOCIAL EN AREAS RURALES)

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...

RURAL LIVING LABS AS A WAY TO SUPPORT RURAL DEVELOPMENT POLICIES

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...