A new Horizon 2020 project – ROBUST – will work between 2017 and 2021 to explore interactions and dependencies between Europe’s rural, peri-urban and urban areas, showcase good practices and foster mutually beneficial relations.

The project will run ‘Living Labs’, gathering policy-makers, researchers, citizens, and businesses to develop and test new solutions for rural-urban interactions. These will help to build ‘Communities of Practice’ on the topics of: new businesses and labour market; public infrastructures and social services; sustainable food systems; cultural connections; ecosystem services.