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Rural communities across Europe and China are developing innovative, community-led approaches to build more resilient and sustainable local economies. The NEXRUR project connects experiences, knowledge and communities across both regions to explore how rural innovation can create new opportunities for people, businesses and territories.  Rural areas in Europe and China are facing many shared challenges: climate change, biodiversity loss,…

Written interview with the project coordination team: Juliane Corredor Jimenez, Philipp Grundmann, and Chen Gao from the Leibniz Institute for Agricultural Engineering and Bioeconomy (ATB) in Germany. 1. What are the key rural challenges that the NEXRUR project addresses? While NEXRUR addresses quite a myriad of challenges faced by rural areas, we believe that the…

From 15–17 April 2026, Burgos welcomed the NEXRUR use cases for a three-day workshop of the NEXRUR Community-Led Business Models (CLBM) Innovation Network. The event brought together project use case leaders, consortium partners, and representatives of the Chinese consortium to advance collaboration and exchange on rural innovation. Organised by Universidad de Burgos and Wageningen University…

With the main objective of supporting communities in developing businesses that contribute to a just and sustainable future – while consolidating lessons learned and success factors for scaling up and out – Wageningen University & Research, in cooperation with the University of Burgos, coordinates the NEXRUR innovation network of 15 community-led businesses across Europe. The…