rural hub short introduction
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Rural Hub born as a collective of research to promote the connection between new innovative companies, investors and associations linked to the agri-food sector.
Rural Hub is the root node of a network of researchers, activists, academics and managers interested in identifying new models of economic development to find solutions to social needs and market conditions that emerge from the world of new rural businesses.
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Rural Hub i: • Business incubator, Mentoring and Project Financing for
Rural Start-up, • connector between innovators, rural change makers and
Venture Capitalist, • permanent center of studies and research on social
innovation applied to rural world, • seat of local and global events spread.
Rural Hub is the first place in Italy that connects and enables the exchange and sharing between people, ideas and projects of social
innovation applied to the rural world.!
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RESEARCH
SOCIETING FOOD SYSTEM START-UP
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RESEARCH
SOCIETING
Mediterranean marketing agency
FOOD SYSTEM
Research center
START-UP
Business incubator of rural start-up
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The research project Rural Hub is funded by the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research (MIUR).!
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Managed by a cluster of three partner entities!
Intergovernmental organization including 13 Mediterranean member countries that promoting
sustainable agriculture in the Mediterranean in pursuing its 3 Missions: Education, Research
and Cooperation.
Libera Terra is the trademark that characterizes all organic products of cooperatives belonging to Libera and that, thanks to the law 109/1996,
operating production facilities and land confiscated from the mafia organizations.
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With the direct adhesion of two foreign partners!
Foundation for Peer to Peer Alternatives is an organization with the aim of studying the impact
of peer to peer thechnology and thought on society.
A platform for networking and regional co- operation representatives of governmental
institutions responsible for agriculture and rural development in respective countries and
territories in South Eastern Europe.
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And with a collaboration of!
Università degli studi di Salerno
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SOCIETING SUMMER SCHOOL !SALERNO 24-30 august 2013 !
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testing activities
RURAL HUB INVESTOR DAY Internet Festival of Pisa 10-13 october 2013!
CHINA ITALY INNOVATION FORUM !Beijing, China 14-16 November 2013.!
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Training school for 25 students from all over europe chosen on the basis of curricula with teachers of intarnational profile. Lession focused on rural social innovation and innovative business models.
Societing Summer School
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Ccustomizing traditional management tools for rural start-up to develop innovative business model for this industry.
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Presentation of ten innovative start-ups related to the agrifood in front Oltre, a venture capital, and some of the world's leading experts on innovation in agrifood. The event was inside the program of the Internet Festival 2013 of Pisa.
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Test the potential of the Chinese market quality and food safety
China Italy Innovation Forum
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Scale model of the incubator Rural Hub in Chinese production model.
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team ALEX GIORDANO SCIENTIFIC DIRECTOR & CMO
Pofessor of Marketing and Brand reputation. Expert of social innovation. Co-founder of Ninjamarketing and a media company ViralBeat.
AGOSTINO RIITANO PROJECT MANAGER
Social Innovator and cultural manager. General manager of project Ri@ne.
FRANCESCO MARTUSCIELLO CEO
Co-founder of Grotta del Sole winery. Founder & digital Strategist at GAFF Strategy.
MICHELE SICA RESERCER
Director of rural social impact project in south of Italy.
GENNARO FONTANAROSA CCO
Project manager & media executive of Societing. Expert of social innovation.
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advisory board
ADAM ARVIDSSON Professor of Sociology of Globalization and New Media at the University of Milan.
DANIELLE GOULD Founder & CEO of Food & Tech Connect.
JOHN GRANT Consultant and world guru of green marketing.
NATHAN JURGENSON Sociologist and theorist of social media, contributing editor for The New Inquiry.
MICHEAL BOWENS Founder and director of the Foundation for Peer-to-Peer Alternatives.
