21 Apr 2020
Rural-urban relations in times of COVID-19: Join the discussion
Professors Bettina Bock and Jessica Duncan want to know: How are the interactions and dependencies between rural, peri-urban and urban...
Latest news & events
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6 Apr 2020
Webinar with Carolyn Steel "Sitopia: rethinking our lives through food” is online
The webinar includes a presentation from the London-based architect and speaker, Carolyn Steel, author of “Hungry City: How Food Shapes...
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18 Mar 2020
Webinar with Carolyn Steel: "Sitopia: rethinking our lives through food”
Join us on 2 April to hear Carolyn Steel's keynote talk, "Sitopia: rethinking our lives through food".
Living Labs
A ROBUST Living Lab is a placed-based form of experimental collaboration that emphasizes co-creation in a real-world setting. Policy-makers, researchers, businesses, service providers, citizens and other stakeholders work together to develop and test new ways to solve problems in a specific geographic region.
The ROBUST project includes 11 Living Labs that represent typical rural-urban settings throughout Europe. Click on the images below to explore what is happening in each ROBUST Living Lab.
Communities of Practice
A Community of Practice (CoP) is a community of people who share a common interest, practice or problem, who share information and experiences with one another to better learn about that particular practice.
The Communities of Practice in ROBUST are organised around five rural-urban themes that provide a structured forum for sharing real-time experiences and findings from the various ROBUST Living Labs. Click on the icons below to explore each Community of Practice for the ROBUST project in more detail.
Latest publications
| Publication | Type | Date | Download |
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| Sitopia: Rethinking Our Lives Through Food | Presentation | 2 Apr 2020 |  Carolyn Steel Webinar Presentation_web_sm.pdf |
| Less commuting and climate protection: An estimation exercise for the Frankfurt/Rhein-Main region | Report | 28 Feb 2020 | ROBUST_GHG emissions-FFM-Rhine-Main.pdf |
| Refining a basic concept: The Outer-Inner-Space notion as a specification of the Rural-Urban dualism | Article | 20 Feb 2020 | ROBUST_Outer-Inner-Space notion.pdf |
