@misc{Hernández_Alistair_Adam._Autor_Experimenting_2021, author={Hernández, Alistair Adam. Autor and Schneider, Carolin. Autor}, volume={41}, copyright={Creative Commons Attribution BY 4.0 license}, address={Warszawa}, journal={Europa XXI}, howpublished={online}, year={2021}, publisher={IGiPZ PAN}, language={eng}, abstract={In a context of highly heterogeneous development prospects for rural areas in the German Federal Republic, maintaining public services and infrastructure in peripheral locations is facing major challenges. Since the 1990s, a number of nationwide and publicly-funded pilot schemes have experimented with innovative approaches for the long-term transformation of the way public services and infrastructure are provided in the countryside. Nevertheless, the continuity of these approaches often turns out to be problematic. This paper analyses a series of pilot schemes as instruments for territorial development and presents new findings at multiple levels for enhancing their performance.}, type={Text}, title={Experimenting for long-term transformation. Key insidhts into 20 years of German pilot scheme for innovative rural public service and infrastructure provision}, URL={http://rcin.org.pl/igipz/Content/233738/WA51_270304_r2021-t41_EuropaXXI-Hernandez.pdf}, keywords={basic services and infrastructure, demographic decline, Germany, innovation, pilot schemes, rural areas}, }