The meeting focused on the presentation and discussion of project final results and overall impact, including a WP status update. SPI – Sociedade Portuguesa de Inovação is responsible for the Work Package (WP) 7 of the project, which corresponds to communication, dissemination, exploitation and building synergies.
PoliRural is a research project funded by the European Commission (H2020) aiming at understanding how rural areas can attract more people for living, work & investment. PoliRural is providing new knowledge by combining several key activities needed to design effective place-based, human-centric and forward-looking rural policies.
These include actionable research that takes place within an inclusive learning environment where rural populations, researchers and policymakers come together to address common problems; an evaluation exercise that uses text mining to assess the perceived effectiveness of past or planned policy interventions; and a foresight study that gleans the development trajectory of agriculture and its allied sectors until 2040 using several scenarios in which the evolution of rural populations occupies a central place.