News
- IUFRO launched a Unit on Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship, led by SIMRA Coordinator, Dr Maria Nijnik, and with SIMRA partners Dr Mariana Melnykovych and Dr Simo Sarkki as Deputy Coordinators (IUFRO News, Vol. 49, 5, 2020)
- SIMRA MOOC on Social Innovation in Rural Areas will start running by 30th March. Join us!
- Meeting: Keys and Tools for Rural Social Innovation – Lessons from the SIMRA project (Claves y Herramientas para la Innovación Social Rural – Lecciones del proyecto SIMRA), Barcelona, 17 March 2020
- El desarrollo rural se analiza en Zaragoza
- Transition Presents an Unprecedented Opportunity for Rural Revival
- Smart villages and social innovation: the SIMRA project
- L’innovation sociale au cœur de la foresterie
- Social innovation in forests: buzzword or opportunity?
- The road to social innovation in Lebanon
- Community energy in Europe ‘more diverse’ than in the past 50 years
- Advanced international course on social innovation in rural areas
- Smart villages in Scotland
- Strontian: The community that built its own school
- L’Università di Foggia conquista il Giappone: incontro tra docenti per parlare di innovazione in agricoltura
- L’Unifg conquista il Giappone
- SIMRA at the Academy of Management in Chicago
- Tackling rural challenges with social innovation: SIMRA at Hutton Highlights
- SIMRA Training workshop for Case studies team
- “Revitalizar el medio rural innovando”. Reportaje sobre SIMRA en El Heraldo de Aragón
- Un proyecto europeo analiza las posibilidades de la innovación social en las zonas rurales marginales
- Entrevista sobre el proyecto SIMRA en el programa De Puertas al Campo de Aragón Radio
- Energizing the people: Community power projects in Denmark and Germany have inspired politicians worldwide but have failed to translate to other countries. Sometimes the first step is to let people say no
- New book: Social Capital and Local Development: From Theory to Empirics
- Land banking initiatives promote rural social innovation
- SIMRA was presented at the the XV European Rural Development Network Conference “Innovation and Cooperation in Smart, Sustainable and Inclusive Rural Regions”
- SEEDS-Int introduced SIMRA Project in Beirut (Lebanon)
- IUFRO 125th Anniversary Congress – Remote forest-dependent communities can benefit through social innovation
- Olba promueve la custodia del territorio para prevenir los incendios forestales
- Prof Maria Nijnik presented SIMRA at the Netherlands’ Palace Symposium
- Adopt a tree, SIMRA’s action held in Bratislava
- Any examples of Social Innovation to share with us?
- Noticia sobre el primer workshop local de SIMRA en El Diario de Teruel
- “Innovation and LEADER: setting the scene”, by Bill Slee, SIMRA’s member, at ENRD Workshop on ‘Extending LEADER Innovation’
- 10 Early-Stage-Researchers Positions „Social Entrepreneurship in Structurally Weak Rural Regions“
- Social innovation – the last and next decade
- Landscape effects on human health and well-being as elements of social innovation in marginalized rural areas: reflections on why and how to evaluate them. By Laura Secco
- Social Innovation in mountain territories: insights from the conference “Mountain regions, territories of innovation”
- SIMRA presented at the 14th ERDN Conference “Knowledge sharing and Innovation in Agriculture and Rural Areas”
- SIMRA’s Workshop in Bratislava: Shaping Social Innovation for Marginalised Rural Areas
Events
- Meeting: Keys and Tools for Rural Social Innovation – Lessons from the SIMRA project (Claves y Herramientas para la Innovación Social Rural – Lecciones del proyecto SIMRA), Barcelona, 17 March 2020
- SIMRA Final Conference, 19-20 February 2020, Brussels (Belgium)