CORAL-ITN "Exploring the impacts of collaborative workspaces in rural and peripheral areas in the EU" is a Marie Sklodowska Curie Ιnnovative Training Network (2021-2024) that aims to provide specialized and tailor-made training to 15 PhD researchers to better understand and support the development processes of CWS in rural and peripheral areas, their wider impacts at the local and regional level, as well as at the level of the individual worker and the enterprise. CORAL consortium brings together nine internationally recognised research institutions enjoying an excellent reputation (beneficiaries: Leibniz-Institute for Regional Geography-IfL, Politecnico di Milano-Polimi, Paris School of Business-PSB, Leibniz-Institute for Research on Society and Space-IRS, Panteion University, partner organisations: Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, University of Lille, Leipzig University, University of Vienna, University of Graz), with cutting-edge expertise in the scientific assessment of several aspects of CWS and local socio-economic development, and six non-academic participants (beneficiaries: European Creative Hubs Network- ECHN, Otelo, Saxon Association of Cultural & Creative Industries- SACCI and the Impact Hub Global- IHG, partner organisations: Region of Western Greece, Metro Kuldiga), with extensive practical and policy expertise at the forefront of supporting, implementing and making use of CWS in rural and peripheral areas. This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 955907.