EU Horizon Europe ESIRA Project with the University of Burgos

ESIRA
ESIRA “Promoting Social Innovation in Rural Areas” is a European project coordinated by the University of Burgos that seeks to promote development in rural areas. It is funded by the European Commission, through the Horizon Europe program, and involves fifteen partners from Spain, Hungary, Serbia, Poland, Lithuania, Italy, Norway and France. A practical experience will be developed in each country, with the Pinares Burgos-Soria region being the experimental pilot in Spain.

Duration
The ESIRA project will be carried out for at least 4 years.

Methodology
What sets the ESIRA project apart from other similar initiatives is its innovative methodology. A working system that involves all the actors in the rural area from the outset, and creates “Spaces of Innovation” led by the community itself, to carry out a self-diagnosis of the community, as well as to identify social economy initiatives, opportunities for economic entrepreneurship, cultural action, social revitalization, territorial cohesion, improvement of the service offering, management of endogenous resources, digitalization, educational proposals, dynamics for young people, female protagonism, green transition, etc.

Our contribution

Given our expertise in the topic and our knowledge of the local context of the Spanish pilot, NBSCLIMATE we’ve been subcontracted by the University of Burgos to develop training materials, in particular the following contents:

5.2 Just Green Transition in Rural Areas.

• Clean Water, Living Soil, Waste Reduction and Circularizing Byproducts.
• Clean Energy, Reduction of GHG Emissions and Adaptation to Climate Change.
• Preservation and Restoration of Ecosystems and Biodiversity.
• Organic Agriculture, Regenerative Livestock Farming and Sustainable Forest Management.
• Methodologies and Sustainability Indicators in the Rural Green Transition.
• Resources and Policies to Promote the Green Transition in Rural Areas.

More to come.