Social innovations (SIs) are new ideas that create collaboration or new social relationships
and thus meet local needs. The purpose of the research is to understand the role of SIs and …

Introduction: Nordic countries face societal challenges for which social innovation may
represent solutions. The aim of this scoping review is to explore the concept of social …

Municipal strategies are important for rural localities, as from a governance perspective they
pool resources and bring actors together in cooperation. For Finnish municipalities, the …

ABSTRACT The recently reformed Finnish Social Welfare Act obligates public social work to
enact structural social work, and to address the community-and structural-level social …

Civil society plays an essential role in the development of our rural areas. In spite of this,
little research has been conducted on the role of non-profit organizations, often referred to in …

Current rural proofing models are criticised for the inability to perceive detailed and varying
local circumstances and the inability to pay attention to dynamics, to changing …

Most research aimed at identifying factors stimulating innovation activity at the regional level
poorly takes into account the fact that the importance of various factors may differ in regions …

The dissertation examines the changing relationship between rural citizen participation and
welfare services. The study focuses on the field of social rural research, locating the trends …

Rural areas tend to not be perceived as particularly innovative areas, in spite of a growing
diversity of rural economies related to new activities and new types of innovation which rely …

The LEADER programme has been a point of reference to help understand the current
dynamics of rural Europe, for example in the fight against depopulation in certain areas. But …