“Future Oriented Collaborative Policy Development for Rural Areas and People”
Rural areas are under pressure. Despite being home to more than a quarter of Europe’s population and providing more than one fifth of all EU jobs, the old-fashioned image of the rural idyll is seemingly no longer valid. Over the past twenty-five years, rural regions have experienced a rapidly shrinking population as people, especially young adults, have migrated to cities with the lure of better paid jobs, modern affordable homes and more exciting lifestyles.
PoliRural is a research and innovation project designed to advance rural policy development in the age of disruptive data and technologies in order to deliver a trusted, scalable and transferable solution for policy co-creation. It brings together decision makers, experts and rural inhabitants using advanced policy simulation tools to better understand and tackle regional challenges, ultimately making rural areas and professions more attractive and liveable for established populations and recent or potential newcomers.
Smart & Lean’s role in PoliRural project is to contribute to the Häme-pilot.
Project timeframe: June, 2019 – September, 2022
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement no. 818496
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Bridging PoliRural and PoliRuralPlus
In the previous Horizon2020 PoliRural project, we implemented and learnt from the Multi-Actor Approach (MAA) and intensive stakeholder involvement.
In the new Horizon Europe funded rural development project – PoliRuralPlus – we are continuing the work of PoliRural. We want to deepen and strengthen the Multi-Actor Approach and stakeholder involvement in the design and implementation…
PoliRural SemEx -sovelluksen hyödyntäminen Hämeessä
Semantic Explorer (www.semex.io) on tekstinlouhinnan työkalu, jonka avulla loppukäyttäjä voi analysoida ja visualisoida maaseudun kehittämiseen liittyvää tekstimuotoista dataa. SemEx on kehitetty PoliRural tutkimus- ja innovaatiohankkeessa vuosien 2019 – 2022 aikana. Laajassa hankekonsortiossa on kaksi suomalaista parneria: Hämeen ammattikorkeakoulu Kanta-Hämeestä ja Smart & Lean Hub Oy Päijät-Hämeestä. Nämä ovat yhtevastuussa Suomen Häme-pilotin toteutuksesta. Kaiken kaikkiaan hankkeessa…
Algorithm for Häme Rural Development
Häme’s (FI) rural areas development is now converted into an algorithm that runs multiple input and output variables. An open-source application provides a simulation tool and playground for Häme regional policymakers and authorities to foresight the rural long-term future until 2040. The System Dynamics Modelling application is the result of PoliRural project efforts.
The observations and insights of PoliRural project – Grass roots needs analysis
The survey was developed in parallel in all the PoliRural 12 regional pilots during the same period, beginning on Feb 10th and ending on March 9 th 2020. In Häme the survey gathered the interest of a total of 90. The below conclusion is copied directly from the deliverable D4.2 and it reflects all 12…
The observations and insights of PoliRural project – Häme region System Dynamics Modeling and drivers analysis
PoliRural’s twelve (12) pilot teams have familiarized themselves with the system modelling process through four phases. The four phases are thefollowing: Drivers Analysis for 12 local pilots Building the Matrix KPI – DRIVERS The High-Level Model System Dynamics Experts’ Layer As described by Dr Patrick Crehan (CKA) in the internal working document for PoliRural’s twelve…
The observations and insights of PoliRural project – Häme Change Factors Analysis (CFA)
The initial and overall ambition of the Häme pilot is: The pilot will use PoliRural results to boost the region’s attractiveness by introducing business-friendly policies that can encourage new entrepreneurs to create products and services on circular-economy and well-being, which in the future may become a significant source of employment. Change Factors Analysis (CFA) groups…
The observations and insights of PoliRural project – Häme region drivers of change
The preliminary analysis of drivers, barriers and enablers Häme pilot organized 12.3.2020 in Lepaa a workshop to identify drivers, enablers, and barriers that are assumed to have an impact on establishing new companies in Häme rural. The below table summarizes the results. STEEPV Inventory of Drivers of Change The approach is based on STEEPV mnemonic.…
Mäntyharju Citizen College trains Lean experts
Mäntyharju is a municipality that is located in the Southern Savonia region in Finland. The municipality has a population of 5,666. Mäntyharju Citizen College is an active and innovative college that provides diverse courses and activities to all age citizens, and also to companies. Smart & Lean has been already for a while a teacher…
The observations and insights of PoliRural project – Policy Value Chain
PoliRural project is a Horizon2020 funded project that researches, innovates, and delivers novel solutions to future-oriented collaborative policy development for rural areas. What is then the policy value chain? The image on right represents my subjective interpretation of the policy value chain. It is shaped based on my experiences and learnings at PoliRural. It is…
The observations and insights of PoliRural project – Stakeholders
PoliRural project is a Horizon2020 project that researches and innovates novel approaches to future-oriented collaborative policy development for rural areas. Project web-page is http://www.polirural.eu. Project has 12 pilots of which HÄME in Finland is one. The overall ambition of HÄME pilot is: The Häme pilot will use PoliRural results to boost the region’s attractiveness by…
Visualizations about Häme-region and Finland. Median wage in post code areas
As part of Polirural, Häme-region was chosen to be one of the pilot areas. Polirural is European Union project, which aims to increase well being and sustainability of the country side. One of the main goals of Polirural project is to tackle problems what rural regions are facing throughout Europe. As part of Polirural project,…
Visualizations about Häme-region and Finland. Level of education in Häme region by county and gender
As part of Polirural, Häme-region was chosen to be one of the pilot areas. Polirural is European Union project, which aims to increase well being and sustainability of the country side. One of the main goals of Polirural project is to tackle problems what rural regions are facing throughout Europe. As part of Polirural project,…
RURAL FUTURES
Horizon2020 projects’ knowledge transfer session on 26.4.2021 among Finnish partners. We had an opportunity to hear achievements and plans through four H2020 project presentations. All projects are putting efforts into a novel rural future. PoliRural SHERPA RURALIZATION DESIRA
Visualizations about Häme-region and Finland population visualization with animation
As part of Polirural, Häme-region was chosen to be one of the pilot areas. Polirural is European Union project, which aims to increase well being and sustainability of the country side. One of the main goals of Polirural project is to tackle problems what rural regions are facing throughout Europe. As part of Polirural project,…
Visualizations about Häme-region and Finland Treemap
As part of Polirural, Häme-region was chosen to be one of the pilot areas. Polirural is European Union project, which aims to increase well being and sustainability of the country side. One of the main goals of Polirural project is to tackle problems what rural regions are facing throughout Europe. As part of Polirural project,…
Blue Wings Composting – Toukkakompostori – again
Blue Wings Composting – Toukkakompostori – has won 16.4.2021 the national Finnish STEM – StarT competition, together with 9 other projects. See the results. Thanks to all participants and stakeholders, particularly Länsiharju primary school’s 4th class and their teacher. In the below picture the class and teacher forward the well-fed and fat larvae back to…
Visualizations about Häme-region and Finland
As part of Polirural, Häme-region was chosen to be one of the pilot areas. Polirural is European Union project, which aims to increase well being and sustainability of the country side. One of the main goals of Polirural project is to tackle problems what rural regions are facing throughout Europe. As part of Polirural project,…
OpenSpring INSPIRE Hackathon 2021 – #2
Challenge #2: Regional Attractiveness This challenge’s primary goals are to explore and develop different forms of simple, understandable, and tempting attractive communication of regional attractiveness assessment. The challenge results will help identify and visualise similarities and differences between various regions based on statistical data. The team should consider, test and experiment with multiple approaches that…
PoliRural meets CITIES2030
H2020 PoliRural project develops an innovative text mining application called SemEx – Semantic Explorer. SemEx pilot is addressed to analyse unstructured data which is related to rural development and rural attractiveness. CITIES2030 implements System Thinking on City/Region Food System transformation. CITIES2030 conducts a “literature review” on System Thinking, but not in a traditional manner, but using…
Blue Wings Composting
The STEM-center in Päijät-Häme region organized a StarT-festival 16.3.2021. The festival was part of the Start-program which introduces STEM project and good practices which are carried out at Päijät-Häme schools. The link to the StarT-programme is this one https://start.luma.fi/ The Blue Wings Composting – Toukkakompostori in Finnish – was one of the candidates in the group of “good…
Blue Wings Composting part 4/4
An organic fertilizer The experiment at Länsiharju school is finished. Children and the teacher feed most of the larvae to teacher colleague’s chickens and to the Vesijärvi fishes. Less than 100 larvae were bred from larvae up to black soldier flies. The fourth fraction which is a result of the experiment is a glass bin…
Rural Systemic Transformation
PoliRural aims to model rural attractiveness system e.g. responses, factors, loops and weights. See below one well known situation of Häme (FI) based on the data from the years 2009-2019. What kind of policy measures are needed to change the trend? Sources: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00220388.2020.1808199https://www.wur.nl/en/show/Rural-transformation-through-food-system-development.htmhttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S221191242030095Xhttps://www.ifad.org/en/web/operations/project/id/2000002242https://www.devex.com/news/how-to-put-farmers-in-control-of-food-systems-transformation-96285
Blue Wings Composting part 3/4
In the third output of the project, black soldier flies were reproduced from larvae which are the research object for 4th grade students in Länsiharju. Children were very excited to meet newborn flies. It was very interesting for them to observe larvae transforming into black soldier flies because they were participating in each step of…
Blue Wings Composting part 2/4
16th day of October The children and the teacher of Länsiharju primary school grade 4B arrived at Pikkuvesijärvi lake at 9 am. By chance the day also was the UNICEF-walk day where students raise money by walking or running kilometers, so the class came to the lake by walking from the school. The day’s mission…
Larvae-based bioconversion adds value to four end-user groups 1/4
Black Soldier Fly larvae – based bioconversion at Länsiharju school in Lahti was terminated according to the plan. The bioconversion by larvae was in operation for 14 days. Larvae ate with good appetite mixed school kitchen waste food that was served to larvae once a day. The bioconversion was managed by the teacher of Länsiharju…
On Black Soldier Fly larvae and rural entrepreneurship
Based on Google Scholar database the number of published papers that include the term “Black Soldier Fly larvae” has increased since 2015. A new record will be made by the end of 2020, as 449 papers are already published in the first 8 months (Figure 1). What is Black Soldier Fly larvae and what is…
Science Cafe for Insect Economy
A distinguished group of scientists and business innovators will gather together in Lahti on 24.9.2020 to discuss and share findings and experiences about Insect Economy in theory and in practice. The main topics for our discussion are: Insect and larvae based protein production Larvae propelled bioconversion Cross-sector interconnection in the bio-based economy Entrepreneurship in rural…
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