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Danube regions and cities face major societal transitions regarding demographic change. The rural exodus is caused by better employment opportunities for the youth and the prospect of a better life in cities. The movement of labor leads to depopulated areas leaving an aging and increasingly unskilled population behind. However, regions can make a significant new beginning.

But a multi-level participative governance approach and new institutional capacities are needed to pool existent excellent competencies and development potentials. Co-creating future strategies to increase the attractiveness of rural areas is the key to give the youth new incentives to revive rural areas.

Circular-Bioeconomy is used as a tool, that promises to foster regional development: It is a concept focusing on the transition of a fossil-resource based economy towards an economy making use of sustainable production of biological resources and processes to develop new products, thus setting rural areas and their development into focus.
The concept catalyzes interdisciplinary cooperation also between different policy areas/levels to actively address demographic change, by enhancing value creation through new collaboration, business models and value chains raising the attractiveness to stay and even move to rural areas.

Long term goal of the project is to enhance the socio-economic status of the regions, contribute to environmental, climate and resource protection as well as foster development of rural areas. An ecosystem for systematic multi-level governance with actors from the interested public, academia, industry and political decision making will be developed. That ecosystem gives space for co-creation and new forms of integrated urban-rural cooperation leading to increased institutional capacity to tackle demographic change. Thus, overcoming the persistent lack of engagement of societal actors in the political system by giving them ownership to address demographic change.

International Relations
FAST FORWARD EUROPE- FFWD EUROPE
FFWD Fast Forward Europe is an initiative supported under the INTERREG EUROPE Programme that is designed to ensure competitiveness of small and medium-sized enterprises (abbreviated as SMEs).
Date of Project End:December 31, 2020
Participant:Small and medium-sized enterprises
Type:International
International Relations
PROCAREFUL
PROCAREFUL project – PRO.active CARE F.or U.sers L.ife is supported by the Interreg CENTRAL EUROPE Programme with co-financing from the European Regional Development Fund. The project is led by I.S.R.A.A. (Italy) in partnership with 8 Partners from Croatia, ...
Janek Bence
project manager
Tel: +3613122213
Email: janek.bence@ifka.hu
Date of Project End:February 28, 2026
Participant:Small and medium-sized enterprises
Type:International
International Relations
PROCAREFUL
PROCAREFUL project – PRO.active CARE F.or U.sers L.ife is supported by the Interreg CENTRAL EUROPE Programme with co-financing from the European Regional Development Fund. The project is led by I.S.R.A.A. (Italy) in partnership with 8 Partners from Croatia, ...
Janek Bence
project manager
Tel: +3613122213
Email: janek.bence@ifka.hu
Date of Project End:February 28, 2026
Participant:Small and medium-sized enterprises
Type:International
International Relations
RaiSE
Enhancing social enterprises competitiveness through improved business support policies
Mészáros Anna
projektmenedzser
Tel: +3613122213
Email: meszaros.anna@ifka.hu
Date of Project End:August 31, 2022
Participant:Improved access of enterprises, including social enterprises working for society
Type:International
International Relations
SOCIAL SEEDS
Exploiting Potentials of Social Enterprises through Standardized European Evaluation and Development System
Mészáros Anna
projektmenedzser
Tel: +3613122213
Email: meszaros.anna@ifka.hu
Date of Project End:September 30, 2022
Participant:Social enterprises
Type:International
International Relations
REBORN Embracing failure to encourage entrepreneurship and competitiveness
REBORN is a 48-month initiative supported under the INTERREG EUROPE Programme.
Date of Project End:December 31, 2020
Participant:Small and medium-sized enterprises
Type:International
International Relations
Social(i)Makers
Growing a Transnational Smart Community of Social Innovators for the Inclusive Development of Central Europe Social innovation initiatives can create products, services and models that answer to structural transformations of civic communities – but they ...
Mészáros Anna
projektmenedzser
Tel: +3613122213
Email: meszaros.anna@ifka.hu
Date of Project End:July 31, 2020
Participant:Social enterprises
Type:International
International Relations
DanubeChance2.0
Embracing failure to facilitate second-chance entrepreneurship in the Danube region Business entry and exit are natural processes that are inherent to European economic life. In fact, 50% of enterprises do not survive the first 5 years of their life, ...
Date of Project End:December 31, 2021
Participant:Small and Medium-sized enterprised
Type:International
International Relations
Finance4SocialChange
Leveraging Finance 4 positive Social Change Social entrepreneurship (SE) has become increasingly relevant in today’s economic setting as social changes have mounted,(World Economic Forum, 2017) while at the same time, public funds in many countries are ...
Mészáros Anna
projektmenedzser
Tel: +3613122213
Email: meszaros.anna@ifka.hu
Date of Project End:December 31, 2021
Participant:Small and Medium-sized enterprised
Type:International
International Relations
SENSES
Strengthening Social Entrepreneurial Landscape through involving socially responsible corporate Practices in EntrepreNeurial CompetenceS and Skills enhancement in the DANUBE region Social enterprises (SEs) are important drivers for inclusive growth and ...
Date of Project End:June 30, 2019
Participant:Social enterprises (SEs)
Type:International
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