RURACTIVE Catalogue of place-based smart solutions in rural areas V1

The RURACTIVE Solutions Catalogue is a collection of rural smart and community-led solutions, organised based on the ontology developed in the RURACTIVE Conceptual Framework (De Luca et al., 2024: 15). Solutions are understood as “place based established practices, products, processes, actions, models of governance, decision making practices, initiatives, policies and plans made up by one or a combination of various forms of innovations that drive rural communities towards a sustainability transformation” (De Luca et al., 2024: 15).
The Catalogue features represent basic descriptive elements of the solutions (e.g. name, location, aims, story, website) and details of the Rural Development Drivers in the remit of the solutions, the Cross-cutting Priorities addressed by each solution, and the types of innovation associated with each solution. Each Catalogue entry also includes a list of enablers and barriers of innovation developed as interpreted from reviewing the literature and relevant results from previous projects.
This dataset has been developed under the Horizon Europe project RURACTIVE and it corresponds to RURACTIVE Solutions Catalogue V1 (Milestone 2).