<< Objectives >>The project goal is to strengthen the capacity of citizens and local organisations to participate in the creation of sustainable development strategies, aimed at strengthening the economic and environmental resilience of rural territories. To this purpose, CoRoots aims to create a strategic partnership for co-learning and collaboration between cross-sectoral organisations such as research, social innovation platforms, local development organisations and university centres.<< Implementation >>Spaces for multidisciplinary co-learning through two lines of work. The first consists of three activities for the Exchange of Good Practices in Social Innovation and Citizen Participation in rural environments. The second line of work is to create spaces for discussion and collaboration, in order to generate alliances that will strengthen work in the field of rural development.The learning from the project will be integrated by in an experience of Participatory Local Development in Portugal.<< Results >>RESULTS: Training of 15 adult learners in Social Innovation and citizen participation. Creation of a strategic partnership, allowing to enrich the approaches and capacity for action of the participating organisations; facilitating the creation of synergies, through the identification of common challenges in the European context; and the Elaboration of 1 Didactic Guide with Good Practice Experiences.