The notion of ‘resilience’ is very much to the fore in public and policy discourse. The European Union has put resilience and innovation at the core of its climate adaptation and zero carbon strategies. The European Green Deal envisages resilient rural communities and farms that contribute to biodiversity and wellbeing. Regional policy, at the EU and member state levels, increasingly emphasises the sustainable development of regional and territorial resilience. Indeed, the current global pandemic has propelled a renewed focus on individual and community-level resilience, which is associated with quality of life and social capital. Citizen and social movements are also advocating resilience, and are embracing initiatives such as Smart Villages as part of multi-pronged and integrated approaches to place-making. Thus, our project seeks to respond to macro- and micro-level imperatives and impetuses towards the promotion of resilience. Specifically, we propose to identify and capture best practices in respect of resilience and to disseminate and promote conducive knowledge capital.