Challenges and Prospects for the Determinants of Socioeconomic Development in Rural Areas: Evidence from Lithuania

Lankauskienė Rita () and Gedminaitė-Raudonė Živilė ()
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Lankauskienė Rita: Lithuanian Centre for Social Sciences, Institute of Economics and Rural Development, Vilnius, Lithuania
Gedminaitė-Raudonė Živilė: Lithuanian Centre for Social Sciences, Institute of Economics and Rural Development, Vilnius Lithuania

European Countryside, 2024, vol. 16, issue 1, 10-25

Abstract: This article presents the newly introduced model for EU policy-making, based on combined ‘bottom-up’ and ‘place-based’ approaches by establishing rural science-society-policy interfaces – Multi-Actor Platforms (MAPs). MAPs are open forums for exchanging relevant ideas in solving region’s most urgent place-based challenges, performing co-learning, and acting as knowledge co-creation platforms for the contribution of creating reflective research and policy agendas for the future of Europe’s rural areas. The main aim of this paper is to explore the challenges and prospects for the determinants of socioeconomic development (i.e., entrepreneurship, social economy, and sustainable and resilient value chains) in rural areas, based on SHERPA science-society-policy interface co-learning and co-creation results in Lithuanian MAP. Research results show that the combined bottom-up and place-based approaches with the help of regional MAPs as science-society-policy rural interfaces hold high potential to be applied to develop reflective research and policy agendas for the regions in the EU.

Keywords: socioeconomic development; science-society-policy interfaces; entrepreneurship; social economy; sustainable and resilient value chains; SHERPA (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.2478/euco-2024-0002

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