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RURACTIVE - Project video is out!
RURACTIVE strives to support the just and sustainable transition of European rural areas. This video highlights the goals and anticipated impact of the project. It shares the importance of empowering rural communities across Europe through innovation, sustainability, and social inclusion. More on RURACTIVE: www.ruractive.eu RURACTIVE _ Project video is out! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10SIfKdrIxc
International conference ‘Women in agriculture’ in Bolzano
From 2 to 4 April 2025, the 5th International Conference ‘Women in Agriculture’ took place in Bolzano, organised by the South Tyrolean Women Farmers' Organisation, the Institute for Economic Research of the Bolzano Chamber of Commerce (WIFO), the Free University of Bolzano and Eurac Research. Following conferences in Bern (2011), 2022), Vienna (2013), Schwäbisch-Hall (2017) and Zollikofen (2022), this time the event was organised in South Tyrol. More than 150 female farmers, advisors,...
RURACTIVE – Local Workshop 3 in Jormannsdorf
Fine-tuning for sustainable innovations On March 24, 2025, the Local Workshop 3 “Fine Tuning” took place in Jormannsdorf at the Burgenland Business Agency (WAB) as part of the EU project Ruractive. In this advanced phase, the previously developed solutions for sustainable developments in the South Burgenland region were concretized and the implementation steps were planned. After challenges and solutions for sustainable regional development had been developed together with various...
Social farming and green care in Austria
The BAB has been involved in social farming for a long time. Georg Wiesinger analyses the development and situation in the book ‘Potenziale der Sozialen Landwirtschaft’ (ed.: Hofmann & Spieker, 2025, Metropolis). https://www.metropolis-verlag.de/Soziale-Landwirtschaft-und-Green-Care-in-Oesterreich/15399/book.do https://www.metropolis-verlag.de/Potenziale-der-Sozialen-Landwirtschaft/1582/book.do;jsessionid=187B95F4FC4B89E472FC9E215F380771 https://www.metropolis-verlag.de
Dr. Martina SCHORN
The BAB is delighted to have gained Dr Martina Schorn as a top-class researcher. With her experience in residential mobility, youth migration, rural and urban development and regional governance, she will strengthen Rural Social Research at the BAB.
Farmers‘ Knowledge and Farming Practices Workshop
On March 4, 2025 the Institute of Rural History (Brigitte Semanek & Jessica Richter) organized an international workshop on "Farmers' Knowledge and Farming Practices" together with BAB (Georg Wiesinger). This event took place at the Lower Austrian Library building in St. Pölten where more than 20 experts discussed the economic, environmental and socio-cultural implications of traditional farming knowledge. Programme 13:00-13:20 Brigitte Semanek (Institute of Rural History – IGLR), Jessica...
First Results from the Project: Making Bureaucracy Accesible
Insights into Bureaucracy on Austrian Farms This interim report presents the initial results of the project "Making Bureaucracy Accessible". The project was launched in September 2024 by staff members of the University College for Agricultural and Environmental Education, together with an interdisciplinary team of various cooperation partners. The goal of the project is to make the concept of bureaucracy more understandable from the perspective of farmers. The background of the study is the...
RURACTIVE - Local workshop in Jormannsdorf
As part of the Horizon Europe project RURACTIVE, the 2nd local workshop for the design and discussion of ‘challenges’ and their possible solutions in the South Burgenland study region, took place on 23th January 2025. The 15 participants from various sectors discussed the following challenges: (i) Inadequate culinary provision for cyclists - tourists and locals - along the railway line, (ii) Insufficient voluntary commitment to environmental and nature conservation in Southern...
RURACTIVE Dynamos Symposium Februar 2025
From February 25 to 26, 2025, the Dynamos Symposium Workshop took place in Vienna as part of the EU research project RURACTIVE with the participation of 34 participants from 8 countries. The aim of the project is to strengthen rural communities and enable them to actively shape their future. The focus of the work-intensive symposium was the concretization of the Local Action Plan in the Dynamos, the inclusion of cross-cutting priorities (climate change, biodiversity, social justice,...
Second RUSTIK Living Lab Report with the Austrian Living Lab Nockregion-Oberkärnten Published
The second Living Lab report from the Horizon Europe project RUSTIK summarizes the findings of the 14 Living Labs in the pilot regions. Each Living Lab presents the work carried out during the second cycle of the project in 2024. A central focus of this phase were the so-called data experiments, which tested new data, methods, and analytical approaches to better understand the challenges of rural areas and to support the transition to sustainable and resilient structures through the targeted...
BIOECO-UP at the BIOEAST Science-policy dialogue
On 27.11.2024, the Croatian Chamber of Agriculture organised the BIOEAST Science-Policy Dialogue “Bioenergy Smart Choices in Difficult Times” with 35 participants. The Federal Institute of Agricultural Economics and Mountain Farming presented results from the BIOECO-UP project on the topic of “How can EU policy support the bioeconomy?”. “BIOECO-UP - Circular bioeconomy market uptake and policy support in Central Europe” (CE0100254) is supported by the Interreg Central Europe...
Climate change, soil conservation measures and farm performance in Austria
Julian Zeilinger, Jochen Kantelhardt and Andreas Niedermayr published an article in which they investigate: (i) which factors influence participation in soil protection measures in the Austrian agri-environmental programme ÖPUL in arable farming regions and (ii) how participation in these measures affects the operating results of farms in the context of climate change. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1477-9552.12620 Limiting the impact of climate change on agriculture is a...