Academic year 2018/2019 is the third year of the implementation of the project “RURACTION – Social Entrepreneurship in Structurally Weak Rural Regions in Europe”. This project is conducted under the Horizon 2020 Programme – Maria Skłodowska-Curie Innovative Training Network (grant agreement N° 721999) and has a scientific and didactic character. As part of the project, Barrai Hennebry, an Irishman, prepares a doctoral dissertation at Adam Mickiewicz University: “Dynamics of rural regions in Europe – an economic investigation”. The dissertation is supervised by Prof. Tadeusz Stryjakiewicz.
During this year, Barraí Hennebry completed two periods of secondment in Portugal. The first secondment was a three month stay at the University Institute of Lisbon. This was followed by three months in the rural town of Moura, where he worked at the social enterprise ADCMoura. He also attended a RurAction Spring School “Social innovations and regional development – possibilities and limits of intentional change” at Roskilde University in Denmark and an Autumn skill seminar “Managing social enterprises” at University College Cork in Ireland. Aside from the RurAction project he has presented his research at two RSA conferences this year. The first was in Santiago de Compostela and more recently in Lublin.
In October and November 2019, a Russian, Marina Novikova, came to the Faculty for two-months-long secondment. She is working on a doctoral dissertation “The socio-economic impact of innovative solutions on regional development” under the supervision of Prof. Maria de Fátima Ferreiro from the University Institute of Lisbon in Portugal. Her co-supervisor is Prof. Tadeusz Stryjakiewicz.
More info about the project – https://ruraction.eu