12-17/09/2016 - Seminar: "Open Rurality" exploring rural social innovation generators and co-define new rurality (Italy)

With this seminars participants will share a week in Luna_laboratorio rurale, in order to explore and analyze rural social innovation related topics, establish common definitions, analyze current models and best practices all around Europe, expecially in the participant countries.

"Open Rurality" gives space and voice to our definition(s) of "rural social innovation", facilitating critical reflection on what is meant by this tag, globally and locally, in Europe and in particular in the countries involved in the project, allowing us to participate actively in the international debate and creating a dimension of "open rurality" through the dissemination of project results.

The aims of "Open Rurality":
- Increase in participants the level of awareness on the issue of rural social innovation and its high potential impact in social change;
- Trigger a peer-to-peer learning process and methodology through NFE/NFL by sharing best practices, experiences and rural social innovation projects, with particular reference to the participating countries;
- Establish a "common understanding" on the topic;
- Compare the "common understanding" with direct experience in the field, meeting local rural-social projects locate near the venue of the seminar;
- Create and disseminate, with a shared communication strategy, an "open database" containing all the information and data co-generated during the seminar.

The seminar will include a special day of exploring the field of rural social innovation, during which we will encourage personal and group empowerment, personal and group problem-solving attitudes, in order to enhance the language and emphatic skills, to improve intercultural awareness and open up synergies with rural-social local organizations and projects.

Participants also will be invited to prepare themselves for the workshop by collecting in a pre-departure research all the possible information about stories, projects, laws and statistics related to the issue of rural social innovation in their countries.

"Open Rurality" will welcome participants interested and motivated to participate in a shared learning process on issues of rural and social innovation taking place in rural areas, with diverse backgrounds: we would like to recruit participants who already have a compatible background with the central theme of the project, like "young neorural innovators" or "willing-to be", interested in deepening and expanding on the international front their knowledge/ideas in the field of social innovation, with particular reference to its rural applications and the potential for development that results at the local and international level.

Regarding accommodation: particular feature of our seminar is that we will host participants in tents all the necessary and needed things like showers, toilets are provided in the building/house of the venue. Participants need also to bring towels.

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