Tag: SIMRA
Let the (social) seed grow: insights from seven rural social innovation...
Rural societies in Europe and beyond are facing complex social, economic, and environmental challenges. These include rural depopulation, demographic changes such as aging, in-...
International Online Course: Social Innovation in Rural Areas
The European project SIMRA (Social Innovation in Marginalized Rural Areas) is organising a MOOC (Massive Online Open Course) on social innovation in rural areas...
Co-constructing in difficult times: isn’t that what social innovation is all...
This post was originally thought to be a wrap-up of the SIMRA project, and summary of what we lived in our SIMRA Final Conference...
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 in the...
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 up in...
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 Forest Institute...
SIMRA Final Conference: social innovation to boost EU rural areas
Social Innovation in Marginalised Rural Areas (SIMRA) is a project funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme. SIMRA seeks to advance...
Innovation inspiration at a SIMRA workshop in Solsona
Social Innovation in Marginalised Rural Areas (SIMRA) is a European project focused on research and innovation actions. FORECO, one of the 26 partners in...
SIMRA’s October sessions: Lessons learned from the project innovation actions
On 7 and 8 October EFIMED organised two workshops in the province of Teruel (Aragon, Spain) to close the Innovative Action that EFI leads...
Changing the conversation about forest fires through social innovation
In 1986, fires raged rampant on Montserrat Mountain. As over 70,000 hectares of forest land burned throughout Catalonia, the wildfires drew dangerously close to...
New paper! Indicating the value of cork
"It is urgent to value our native forest and its non-wood forest products, where cork oak and cork have a special place!" - Joana...
