Co-constructing in difficult times: isn’t that what social innovation is all about?
This post was originally thought to be a wrap-up of the SIMRA project, and summary of what we lived in our SIMRA...
Rural taste delivered to your table
Social Innovation is a concept of social development hailed as a means to provide scalable solutions to social, economic and environmental issues....
Sponsoring a forest: experiences with corporate social responsibility
Forests are an essential part of the terrestrial ecosystem. They are indispensable to ensure the balance of ecosystems and to combat climate...
MEDfOR students at EFI’s Forest Economy and Policy seminar
Students from the Erasmus Mundus master programme in Mediterranean Forestry and Natural Resources Management (MEDfOR) from the University of Lleida (Spain) attended...
Keys and tools for social rural innovation: lessons from SIMRA
The study of social innovation, understood in its broadest socio-environmental sense, has spread since the beginning of the century, and its importance...
Social Innovation: What’s all the fuzz about?
Social innovation is everywhere. A search in Google lands 1,320 million hits. Google Scholar finds 3,700,000 resources, and if we look it...
When social innovation grows strong: The case of ADFs in Catalonia
We at the Forest Science and Technology Centre of Catalonia (CTFC) invited different SIMRA project stakeholders to a Validation Workshop in Solsona...
Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya & Social Forest: Together toward sustainability!
This summer, Social Forest turned part of an unmanaged forest area into a sustainable and educational forest. This work was done at...
DESIRA project brings digital technologies to forests and rural areas
The DESIRA (Digitisation: Economic and Social Impacts on Rural Areas) research initiative is a four-year Horizon 2020 project coordinated by the University...
Participatory video to collect experiences on Social Innovation Actions
The Social Innovation Actions within the European Union H2020 "Social Innovation in Marginalised Rural Areas (SIMRA)" project have been coordinated by the European...
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Deforestation made in Italy
This publication provides a summary of the contributions to the workshop "Deforestation made in Italy", held in Padua in December 2019. After...
