Dr. Rita Lankauskienė is Principal Research Fellow and Head of the LIRA Lab at the Lithuanian Centre for Social Sciences, Institute of Economics and Rural Development, Lithuania. She received her PhD in Management and Administration from Mykolas Romeris University in 2011. She is also Founder and President of the National Network of Living Labs and serves as an expert for the European Commission and the Lithuanian Research Council. Dr. Lankauskienė has participated in numerous national and international research projects, including Horizon Europe projects ESIRA and Tools4CAP, as well as Horizon 2020 and INTERREG initiatives. She previously led the Lithuanian Research Council-funded project “Social Responsibility of Farmers in the Provision of Public Goods and Services: a Multi-Criteria Assessment”. She has received several academic awards, including the Emerald Literati Award and the European Rural Development Network President’s Award. She serves on the editorial boards of Social Responsibility Journal, Technological Sustainability, and Economics of Agriculture, and other. Her research interests include sustainable rural and regional development, sustainability transitions, living labs, social innovation, circular bioeconomy, social responsibility, innovation ecosystems, collaboration and networking, and rural policy modelling.