Research projects
Research projects
The academic research carried out by the Institute is characterized by a multidisciplinary approach to various issues of rural development. Research topics and questions are generated and evaluated in close co-operation with practical rural development activities at the Institute and various networks beyond. Here are some examples of projects:
| Capri-RD, Common Agricultural Policy Regionalised Impact - The Rural Development Dimension |
| Clostridium perfringens and necrotic enteritis in Finnish turkey production |
| Epidemiology of emerging Campylobacteriaceae species |
| Food safety and food chain in South Ostrobothnia |
| Regional economic effects |
| Rural Collaboration in learning Activities |
| The environment friendly and local food communicated in the context of tourism (FoodRus) |
| The professorship of sociological rural research |
Previous research projects
| An overview of services for second house owners in South Savo region |
| Animal welfare graduate school |
| COST ACTION E30 |
| Cost Action E51 |
| Developing participation in rural areas in case of consolidation of municipalities |
| EXPRES - Exploratory Partnership in Research |
| Flexible and multilocational lifestyle |
| Foodcomm |
| Hunting patterns on state-owned land -sustainability and objectives |
| ICA 2011 Global Reseach Conference - New opportunities for co-operatives |
| Innovate Public Organic Food Producement for Youth (iPOPY) |
| National training programme of regional development ALVA |
| Nature-based entrepreneurship in private forests |
| New governance and LEADER participation as a form of political action |
| New rural governance in diffused power contexts |
| NPP-Hunt |
| Open innovations and the cooperative organizational structure |
| Promotion of Innovativeness in Rural Areas |
| QACCP |
| QualityLowInputFood (QLIF) |
| RuBIES -Rural Business Information Exchange System |
| Rural Futures: Ethnographies of transformation from Finland, Estonia, Ukraine and Russia |
| Rural Immigrants, Finnish Countryside and Work-Related Immigration |
| SERVING COUNTRYSIDE? Accessibility of rural services |
| Social economy as the substratum of the new possibilities of entrepreneurship in rural areas |
| Social Partnership and Local Innovations in Rural Restructuring |
| Successful rural businesses and entrepreneurship promotion measures. |
| Sustainable Food Education for Self-Efficacy Development (SEED) |
| Sustainable hunting tourism - business opportunity in the Northern Europe |
| Synthesis- and coordination project of the Karma-research programme |
| The Role of Trust in Building and Developing Successful Business Relationships |
| The Third Sector in the Change of Municipal- and Service Structure |
| Towards national tenability and management of large mammalian carnivores |
| Utilisation rate of evaluation research in Finnish rural and regional policy |
| VIHTA |