About
Project Info
Re-Place (Reframing Non-Metropolitan Left Behind Places Through Mobility and Alternative Development) is a project co-funded by the European Union within the Horizon Europe program, with 7 partners from 6 European countries.
This project began on March 2023 and will last 4 years. It is under the lead of the Instituto de Geografia e Ordenamento do Território da Universidade de Lisboa (IGOT-UL).
Objectives
The overall objective is to mobilize participative research in nonmetropolitan left-behind areas (LBAs), to examine the impact that spatial (im)mobility has on origin and destination areas and how it can be harnessed to improve local alternative development, cooperative building of human capital, wellbeing and sustainability across contexts.
This will be achieved through the 5 specific objectives, which represent a step-by-step methodology to ensure a rigorous and informed research process. The process will be constantly evaluated by the consortium and external advisors through a series of quantitative and qualitative measures.
Specific Objectives
Develop empirical tools
Develop empirical tools – namely a typology and an online representative population survey - to advance complex understandings of development pathways and mobility
Scale down
Scale down to 12 areas in 6 countries to examine the (im)mobility drivers and movement to and from different types of LBAs assessing ensuing spatial, economic, social, and cultural transformations
Qualitatively examine
Qualitatively examine perceptions and livelihood practices of (im)mobile residents across life domains to understand micro strategies of dealing with peripherality
Co-create place-based policies
Co-create place-based policies to enhance mobility benefits and alternative local development through village living labs and the development of a policy toolbox
Using co-production
Using co-production and visual methodologies to reframe existing narratives on LBAs to reinforce a sense of place for residents and newcomers
Work Plan
This WP ensures effective management of the project from a financial and
administrative perspective. It will safeguard positive working practices, with optimum articulation between WPs.
IGOT
This WP pays due attention to ethical research practice ensuring that ethical standards are followed and implemented for the duration of the project.
UNIROMA1
This WP develops an innovative theoretical and conceptual framework to advance the research framework and ensure a rigorous methodological design.
UNILV
This WP develops a unique typology of LBAs based on a Local Human Development Index combined with data collected through an online representative population survey providing unique data to examine the relationships between different individual attitudes and contexts.
IGOT
This WP draws on a series of research activities scaling down to the local level in 12 LBAs through extensive empirical field work engaging with local stakeholders. Special emphasis is given structural impacts such as brain drain and labour exploitation phenomena, but also the question of social innovation; diversification of commercial offer, businesses; cultural diversity in the local communities.
UNIBA
This WP will add another analytical scale to the evidence gathered on mobility drivers and impacts in WP5 by examining household (im)mobility trajectories, perceptions on the outcomes of mobility across life domains and on micro tactics and livelihood strategies to cope with peripherality.
ICCV
This WP engages in co-creation of policy solutions and visual
outputs to reframe narratives on LBAs. The result will lead to a policy toolbox, recommendations and a future research agenda.
UNIROMA1
This WP ensures that the work developed throughout the lifespan of the project has full impact both in terms of the production of new knowledge and in developing operational recommendations and policies for future implementation by policymakers and stakeholders.
SPI
Consortium
The composition of the Re-Place consortium stems from the necessity to have strong partners in migration and mobility studies with transdisciplinary backgrounds including geography, sociology, psychology, communication studies, political science and economy. Re-Place’s focus on local development also motivated the inclusion of specialists on regional and local development, both from an economic and a territorial perspective. The specially recruited expertise provides complementary diversity within and between teams, yet with a proven track record in mobility and migration studies to respond to the core call challenges. Five out of seven of the leaders of each national team are women and all team leaders are highly experienced in working on international and EU funded projects. The partners are from 6 countries with a good geographical balance and represent outstanding universities in different areas.
IGOT-UL - Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning, University of Lisbon | PT Coordinator
UNIBA - Institute of Geography, University of Bamberg | DE
UNIROMA1 - European, American and Intercultural Studies, Sapienza University of Rome | IT
UNILV - Faculty of Geography and Earth Sciences, University of Latvia | LV
ICCV – Research Institute for Quality of Life, Romanian Academy | RO
ULPGC - Research Institute of Text Analysis and Applications, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria | ES
Advisory Board
Re-Place Advisory Board is a crucial part of the management structure of the Re-Place project (together with the Project coordinator, the Project Officer, and the Work Package Leaders), and includes three international experts: Thilo Lang, Maria Grazia Montella, and Ricard Morén Alegret.
The Advisory Board is engaged during key moments to offer inputs and guidance on the conceptual and methodological aspects of the project, as well as in the exploitation of results and in translating these into meaningful and transformative policy recommendations.
Dr Maria Grazia Montella
Professor Dr Thilo Lang
