RoRuralia

Living Lab / Romania / RURALITIES Project

Our Story

RoRuralia
Living Lab

Designed as a collaborative and innovative hub, RoRuralia Living Lab aims primarily at connecting stakeholders from the Romanian North East Development Region for identifying and assessing the particular issues of the rural and urban systems. 

Values & Strategies

RoRuralia Values

Innovation

Living Lab Dimension

The living lab dimension of RoRuralia is innovation oriented. The lab is based on scientific research, collaborative networking and co-creation actions. 

Strategies

Policy Lab Dimension

The policy lab dimension of RoRuralia has a participative governance approach, based on multi-actor and strategic actions. 

European Project

RURALITIES Project

RURALITIES Project is about: Climate smart, ecosystem-enhancing and knowledge-based rural expertise and training centres. 

Networking

RDRP Ecosystem

RDRP Knowledge Ecosystem is the super hub in North-East region of Romania. This ecosystem has the mission to develop intelligent rural and urban systems. 

Integrated Systems

SIMSES

RoRuralia is opperating on SIMSES basis, in synergy with Food for iasi Living Lab, on systems thinking basis. 

Community

Synergies

RoRuralia is developing synergies with all actors, agents, stakeholders and beneficiaries on rural and urban systems arena. 

Epistemic Chain Infrastructure

RoRuralia
Epistemic
System

RoRuralia Knowledge and Action strategies are based on scientific research. RoRuralia Living & Policy Lab is implementing research projects in rural and regional food systems. 

Innovation is an important link in the epistemic chain. RoRuralia supports participatory knowledge and wisdom for smart co-innovation activities oriented on durable, resilient and sustainable rural systems, fully integrated in the environment of the rural worls. 

RoRuralia knowledge and action activities and projects are driven by the mission to build policies and strategies for healthy and intelligent rural and regional systems. 

One of the most important links in the epistemic chain is the knowledge transfer. RoRuralia produces, supports, and consolidates knowledge transfer in rural and regional communities and systems.   

Knowledge Patrimony is one of the most important resource of rural and regional systems. RoRuralia is oriented on knowledge and action smart management for rural and regional systems. 

Knowledge is the most important link between culture and civilization. RoRuralia is an actor and agent in the civilization arena but also a culture developer and facilitator. 

News &Events

EU-FarmBook International Organisations invites rural stakeholders to the EU-FarmBook Platform Pre-Launch | Exclusive online event

The highly anticipated EU-FarmBook platform goes live on the 8th of February 2024 and is ready to receive practice-oriented materials, derived from EU-funded projects.

In celebration of this milestone, the project’s stakeholders are gearing up for a pre-launch online event that promises to be an insightful occasion specifically for Project Coordinators (H2020 and Horizon Europe) and Stakeholders (EU, Regional, and National Policy Makers).

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The Evolution of the Romanian Organic Agriculture in a Global Context – Scientific Article

SCIENTIFIC STUDY: the evolution of Romanian organic agriculture over 12 years, between 2010-2021, especially regarding the organic cultivated area and crop structure, having also in view the global context of the agricultural organic sector. The analysis highlighted an important development of the organic area during this timeframe, based, mainly, on permanent grassland, cereals, industrial crops, and “other crops”, at the end of the interval Romania was among the countries with the highest contribution to the increase of the European organic land area.

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RoRuralia Workshop in Siret Moldova LAG

The involvement of the Ruralities project in the actions of revitalizing the territory for the elaboration of the Local Development Strategy 2023-2027 demonstrates the fact that participatory governance actions, based on the quadruple helix principle (local authorities, civil society, the university-academic environment, and the entrepreneurial environment) represent the solution to the preparation of a document programmatically assumed by community members.

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RoRuralia Team

Coordinator Group in RoRuralia Living & Policy Lab

Rural Development Research Platform

Codrin

Codrin Dinu Vasiliu

Researcher & Facilitator

Lucian Tanasă

Lucian Tanasă

Researcher & Facilitator

Sonia Bulei

Sonia Bulei

Communicator & Facilitator