Cooperation Offer

Co-working Spaces in Rural Areas

Offer name: 
Co-working Spaces in Rural Areas
Expiry date: 
01/01/2018
Offering LAG: 
GAL Pays de Guéret
Country:
  • France
Spoken languages:
  • Inglés - Francés

Looking to cooperate with

Type of partner: 

European third spaces or co-working spaces with which a partnership can be developed in the framework of the LEADER Program.

Type of area:
  • Peri-Urban, Small town, Rural

Project idea

Project type:
    • Transnational cooperation
    • With other MSs (no shared border)
Project topic:
    • Innovation
    • Broadband / Internet / ICT
    • Business development
    • Employment / job creation
    • Work-private life reconciliation
    • Employment / job creation
    • Self-employment
Context: 

The Quincaillerie (literally, “the Hardware Store”) is a third-place carried out by the Communauté d’Agglomération du Grand Guéret (local authority). Situated in a rural territory, this place gathers a FabLab, citizen and participative medias, and spaces dedicated to meetings and convivial gatherings. It offers learning sessions about computer software and the use of the Internet, as well as cultural animations (conferences, exhibitions, concerts).
One of the strong characteristics of the Quincaillerie is its professional and social diversity. This diversity is seen as a powerful vector of creativity and innovation because it enriches exchanges between people and, therefore, it gives an added-value to their projects.
Currently, the Quincaillerie doesn’t have an appropriate co-working space. An European cooperation is planned in order to reflect on and engage in actions aiming at prefiguring its future co-working space.

Project idea summary: 

The cooperation project aims at sharing ideas and experiences about co-working concepts and practices in order to enrich the co-working spaces of each partner. The cooperation project could lead to co-design and test out new services within co-working spaces.

Objectives: 

A partnership between French and European third-places would offer a cross-perspective on different coworking spaces and practices. Sharing ideas and experiences would enrich concepts and practices of each partner. The cooperation project could lead to co-design and test out new services within coworking spaces.

For example, besides offering the key elements of a co-working space (shared space and equipment, internet connection, management of the coworkers community), the Quincaillerie would like to develop services linked to nature based activities and green tourism as they constitute a strong characteristic of our territory. In fact, rural areas are more and more attractive for freelance workers who want to experiment a new way of life. Therefore, the Quincaillerie would like to propose services that take the coworkers out the co-working space, and thus, make them discover the territory and its natural wealth.