The third LIVERUR meeting was celebrated in Azores in order to show the results of the project of the last 6 months. They were presented to the different stakeholders and there were established the following steps of the project. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
This european project is coordinated by the\u00a0Catholic University San Antonio of Murcia (UCAM)<\/a>\u00a0within the Horizont 2020 program. Pablo Cano, the director of the International Project Office of UCAM, said that \u201cThe objective of the project is to boost the economy of the rural areas, propose new formulas for economic development and multiply the formulas of international cooperation between these territories\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This time, the meeting was in Azores, one of the 13 scenarios of the LIVERUR pilot zones, which aim is to develop the rural areas through the\u00a0circular economy<\/a>. Also, it is the place where the partner of the activity,\u00a0Fundo Regional para a Ci\u00eancia e Tecnologia do Governo Regional dos A\u00e7ores (FRCT)<\/a>\u00a0operates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n During the meeting, 23 partners from 13 countries, presented their work in order to improve the small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) which operate in the agricultural sector in Europe. Also, the RAIN platform was introduced. The next LIVERUR meeting will take a place in Reggio Emilia (Italy) in November 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n LIVERUR \u2013 Living Lab research concept in Rural Areas<\/a> has received funding from the European Union\u2019s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation programme under grant agreement No 773757.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The project aims at expanding an extremely innovative business model called Living Labs (LL) among the rural regions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The project partnership holds together 23 partners:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Read more about LIVERUR<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Follow us on Twitter@LIVERUR<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\nAbout the project<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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