Unlocking Rural Potential: the ENGINE approach ENGINE publicly unveiled its initial findings at the XXI Conference of the European Rural Development Network (ERDN), held at Romanian Academy – Institute of Agricultural Economics in Bucharest, Romania, from 23 to 25 September…
Advancing Rural Innovation and Entrepreneurship through Collaborative Higher Education Efforts On 1–2 July 2025, partners of the ENGINE Project gathered at the Escola Superior de Tecnologia e Gestão (ESTG/IPVC) in Viana do Castelo, Portugal, for the 2nd Transnational Project Meeting.…
As part of the ENGINE project’s ongoing efforts to align higher education with the needs and realities of rural regions, an online stakeholder consultation meeting was held on April 9, 2025, organized by FH Münster University of Applied Sciences. The…
On April 3rd, the ENGINE team member Marilena Labianca (Prof. in Economic and Political Geography) organised a workshop on ”Resilience and Development in Rural and Marginal areas” at the Department of Economics – University of Foggia. The event focused on…
The University of Foggia participated in a talk organized by the Municipality of Foggia as part of the initiatives “The new Sustainable City” on 24th March 2025, at the “Gate & Gusto Fair” in Foggia, an important annual fair trade…
On March 10 and 12, 2025, the Polytechnic Institute of Viana do Castelo organized two online Rural Consultation sessions as part of the Engine project, gathering a total of 23 participants — including entrepreneurs, representatives of associations, public entities, educational…
On February 28, 2025, a rural consultation meeting was held in the Małopolska region as part of the ENGINE project, which promotes a modern, education-driven approach to rural development. This was the first meeting of its kind with rural stakeholders…
On December 2, 2024, the ENGINE project partners held another meeting, this time focusing on developing a methodology for identifying rural areas’ developmental potential for innovation and entrepreneurship. The methodology will provide a framework for collecting and analyzing data on…
On 24-25 October 2024, the Department of Economic Policy and Development Programming of Krakow University of Economics hosted the kick-off meeting of consortium partners implementing the international research and education project ENGINE – ENtrepreneurial rural Growth through exchanging of Good…