The rural regions of Europe will undergo radical change over the next two decades.Successful rural are as will achieve a sustainable balance between economic, social and environ mental aspects of development on the basis of a fully diversified knowledge based rural economy that includes...

The FOR-RIS blueprint is part of a set of five blueprints addressing five different regional contexts developed by the expert group "Blueprints for Foresight actions in the Regions". The POR-RIS blueprint outlines how to combine the more short term regional innovation strategies (RIS/RITTS)...

The region or local area is too often felt to be the focus of every kind of conservatism, folklore and vote-catching. At this Agora, we questioned this image of the region and re-examined and redefined what was actually meant by region. The region, in our notion of the learning region, has a...