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FARO EU Kick-off Meeting

FARO EU Kick-off Meeting. Introduction to the project by Marta Pérez-Soba. Overview presentation. Project characteristics Project frame Aim Questions to be answered The Work Packages Challenges Time schedule. Project characteristics. FP6 STREP Scientific Support to Policies

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FARO EU Kick-off Meeting

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  1. FARO EU Kick-off Meeting Introduction to the project by Marta Pérez-Soba

  2. Overview presentation • Project characteristics • Project frame • Aim • Questions to be answered • The Work Packages • Challenges • Time schedule

  3. Project characteristics • FP6 STREP • Scientific Support to Policies • 11 partners (+ 3 sub-contractors) from 5 EU countries • Interdisciplinary team • January 2007 – December 2008 • 1 M€ • Scientific coordination: Alterra (NL)

  4. 1 Alterra 8 JRC 2 LEI 9 REDR 3 UoE 10 SRI 4 IAFE-NRI 11 WING 5 UNEW 12 MNP 6 UNIBUC-ECO 13 IGSO 14 Grupo Alba 7 WU Partners

  5. Project frame • Policies related to Rural Development • Background: Cohesion Policy in Support of Growth and Jobs: Community Strategic Guidelines, 2007-2013 • User: EU policy makers (DG AGRI/DG REGIO) • Coverage: EU27 • Constraint: use existing pan European data

  6. Aim: ‘The lighthouse’ To provide guidance for future rural development policies in Europe

  7. Questions to be answered • What are major trends and driving forces affecting rural regions?

  8. In Spain abandonment of agricultural practices from 1992 – 2002: 2 M ha agricultural land changed into forest, natural grasslands and no man’s land 1948 2001

  9. Questions to be answered • What are major trends and driving forces affecting rural regions? • At which scales do they operate?

  10. Scaling • Integrating socio-economic and bio-physical variables • Defining the appropriate spatial scale to combine all the variables considered in a meaningful way

  11. Biophysical & socio-economic variables have a different spatial scale LANMAP2 NUTS-2 regions

  12. Questions to be answered • What are major trends and driving forces affecting rural regions? • At which scales do they operate? • Which of these processes are amenable to change through RD policies and where? i.e. where EU support for rural development will create the most value added at EU level? • How rural policies might be adapted in the future to take account of these processes?

  13. The Work Packages WP 1 Coordination and management ALTERRA WP 3 Institutions and the governance of rural development and the role of ICT NCL WP 2 Past trends and patterns LEI WP 6 Communication and dissemination ALTERRA WP 4 Foresight Analysis UCL WP 5 Integrated evaluation IPTS

  14. Challenges • Describe the different ruralities in Europe

  15. Southern Alps Lapland Scotland Andalucia

  16. Challenges • Describe the different ruralities in Europe (the framework) • How governance and ICT influence RD (conference "Bridging the Broadband Gap: Benefits of broadband for rural areas and less developed regions": 14-15 May 2007) • Assess future uncertainty: conditional probabilistic futures (versus deterministic scenarios) • Integration of quantitative (model chain) and qualitative (SWOT) approaches • Case studies representative of the EU ruralities • Integrated evaluation of foresight results • Communicate science to policy makers

  17. Project meeting 1 Project meeting 2 Final Project meeting Kick-off Project start Project end Workshops scenario Workshop validation modelling Workshop validation integrative analysis FARO EU time schedule (Meetings) 2008 2007 2009

  18. FARO EU time schedule (WPs)

  19. Questions?

  20. Spatial Regional Framework Determine range of socio-economic indicators for NUTS regions Overlap NUTS regions with Environmental zones Carry out PCA by Env zones to identify best regional indicators Clusters according to variability Describe the average socio-economic and land cover characteristics Describe the average socio-economic and land cover characteristics Identify known inconsistencies Identify key issues for RD

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