Research Topics
Some of these common objectives has been selected after a matchmaking co-creation exercise at TALENT4RURALSCIENCE during the elaboration of the proposal with rural development representative regional stakeholders (rural associations, civil servants, potential supervisors of this MSCA Cofund program, policy-makers, international support managers, rural facilitators and managers of development projects at local level) in the framework of the collaborative platforms of the Research and Innovation Regional Strategy 2021-2027. The co-creation exercise results in the ideation of European added value research challenges aligned to the previous EU long term vision objectives and with a strong potential of capitalization in different rural areas of the Member Estates and Associated HE countries.
The proposal to solve the program challenges will be the base for the TALENT4RURALSCIENCE applicants’ technical proposals to participate in the project acceleration program to achieve high quality and impactful science-based results. The scientific implementation of the projects to solve the challenges will be guided by the list of supervisors in different innovative Research Institutes in the University of Extremadura committed and with large experience in researching to solve rural necessities and in supervising research carreres.
Some of these common objectives has been selected after a matchmaking co-creation exercise at TALENT4RURALSCIENCE during the elaboration of the proposal with rural development representative regional stakeholders (rural associations, civil servants, potential supervisors of this MSCA Cofund program, policy-makers, international support managers, rural facilitators and managers of development projects at local level) in the framework of the collaborative platforms of the Research and Innovation Regional Strategy 2021-2027. The co-creation exercise results in the ideation of European added value research challenges aligned to the previous EU long term vision objectives and with a strong potential of capitalization in different rural areas of the Member Estates and Associated HE countries.
The proposal to solve the program challenges will be the base for the TALENT4RURALSCIENCE applicants’ technical proposals to participate in the project acceleration program to achieve high quality and impactful science-based results. The scientific implementation of the projects to solve the challenges will be guided by the list of supervisors in different innovative Research Institutes in the University of Extremadura committed and with large experience in researching to solve rural necessities and in supervising research carreres.
The research topics within the framework of the three challenges defined for the TALENT4RURALSCIENCE programme are:
Challenge 1
Sustainable development and natural resource management
- Research Topic 1.1: Assessing land degradation neutrality and land abandonment trade-offs across Europe
- Research Topic 1.2: Desing and evaluation nature based solutions for the adaptation and mitigation to climate change of silvopastoral systems
- Research Topic 1.3: Sustainable Valorisation of Agri-Food Plant By-Products for Novel Ingredients and Functional Food Design
Challenge 2
Innovation in health and technology for rural development
- Research Topic 2.1: Pharmacological aspects of Equality and Inclusion in Extremadura
- Research Topic 2.2: IoT and Distributed Computing for Health Improvement in Rural Environments
- Research Topic 2.3: Quality and safety of animal origin foods
- Research Topic 2.4: Personalized Medicine Program for Prevalent Diseases for rural development
Challenge 3
Education, inclusion and community development
- Research Topic 3.1: Identities, territory and demographic change: an approach to rural depopulation in Europe
- Research Topic 3.2: Community development in rural contexts from an educational and inclusive perspective