Rural areas often face challenges such as demographic change and the closure of public services. To address this situation, some rural communities have developed solutions called social innovation.
Nordregio’s researcher Leneisja Jungsberg’s article about 18 community-driven social innovation projects across the Nordic countries and the importance of different actors in the initiation and implementation phases of such projects was just published on Elsevier. It is available online free of charge for the next 50 days: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0743016718311574?dgcid=author
