Summary of the results in the area of "health and care" in the context of the final presentation of the joint project InDaLE on 13.12.2022 (digitally conducted conference, TU Dresden)

Learning from each other - implement - perpetuate 

The research project "Innovative approaches in rural areas - learning from experiences of other European countries for Germany" (InDaLE), which started in January 2020, held an online conference together with the Protestant Academy in Loccum from November 2 to 3, 2020 with 74 participants. Central theses of the research project were discussed and supplemented with information from current discourses in the areas of rural services of general interest and the equivalence of living conditions. The focus was not only on German regions but also on regions in other EU countries. The audience of the conference consisted of participating partners of the research project, representatives from science, administration, politics and practice.

The Loccum Report briefly summarizes the most important results of the conference. The perspectives presented here do not necessarily reflect the views of all participants, individuals and institutions.

• Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, discussion event "Aufbruch in den ländlichen Räumen". 3.07.2023, Gudensberg (Hesse), Germany. Lecture on "Innovative approaches to services of general interest in rural areas - (what) can we learn "from abroad"? (Annett Steinführer).

• Ortner, Andreas (2023): Innovative provision of general interest in rural areas in the field of medical care and nursing. Expert forum - Mitgestalter brews the age. Meissen, 30.06.2023.

• 3rd European Rural Geographies Conference. 26-29.06.2023, Groningen, Netherlands. Presentation on "Shifting responsibilities? On the present and the future of volunteer rural firefighting in different European countries" (Annett Steinführer, Alexandru Brad) in the panel "Public Services and Infrastructures".

• Brad, A. and Adam Hernández, A. (2023): INDALE - Innovative public service provision in rural areas. EPRC Webinar - European Policies Research Centre. Strathclyde-Glasgow/Online. 14 June 2023.

• EPRC Webinar Series. 14.06.2023, Digital. Presentation on "Shifting Responsibilities in Co-Produced Public Services" (Alistair Adam Hernández, Alexandru Brad). Available digitally: youtu.be/G1lNjwteJ8Q.

• Fachkongress des Bundesamtes für Bevölkerungsschutz und Katastrophenhilfe "Research for Civil Protection". 12-14.01.2023, Bonn, Germany. Lecture on the topic "Beyond the self-evident. New approaches to securing non-police emergency response in rural areas" (Annett Steinführer, Alexandru Brad) in the panel "Municipal resilience."

• Network meeting of the MORO-AG "Netzwerk Daseinsvorsorge". 17.11.2022, Gillenfeld (Rhineland-Palatinate), Germany. Presentation on "Selected results on the presentation of innovative projects in the area of services of general interest non-police hazard prevention" (Alexandru Brad).

• 26th Annual Meeting of the Working Group Rural Areas of the German Geographical Society. 12-14.09.2022, Vienna, Austria. Presentation on "Redistribution of responsibility? Strategies for securing the future of volunteer fire departments in Austria and Germany" (Annett Steinführer, Alexandru Brad).

• Danielzyk, R. and Adam Hernández, A. (2022): Enabling innovations in rural public services and transforming them into regular operations. Experiences from the exploratory and comparative research project InDaLE. XXVI Annual Meeting of the Rural Areas Working Group in the German Geographical Society (DGfG) at the University of Vienna. Vienna, Austria, September 12-14, 2022.

• 25th Annual Conference of the Working Group Rural Areas of the German Geographical Society. 5-7.05.2022, Bautzen, Germany. Presentation on "Joint exploratory research on services of general interest. Between flexibility and coordinated action in a project consortium" (Alexandru Brad, Annett Steinführer).

• 5th Northern European Conference on Emergency and Disaster Studies. 21-23.09.2021, Digital. Presentation on "Strategies for future-proofing fire brigades in Europe's rural areas. Insights from Germany, Austria, and Scotland" in the panel "Anticipatory Governance" (Alexandru Brad, Annett Steinführer).