The purpose was to explore how digitalisation can help shape rural areas' responses to future challenges, in order to support policy-makers in considering long-term perspectives.
The Joint Research Centre in coordination with the European Commission’s DG AGRI and DG REGIO has developed this platform that will provide more and better data about rural areas.
With the end of the project approaching later this year, partners focused on how to take stock of everything that has been done, planned the work for the close of the project, and identified ways of ensuring sustainability of results.
The Declaration presents the EU’s commitment to a secure, safe and sustainable digital transformation that put people at the centre, in line with the core values and fundamental rights of the European Union.
Drones are tools that can provide better accessibility in remote rural areas, contribnuting to a sustainable and integrated mobility.
Authors: Giuseppe Saija and Gabriele Quattrocchi (EUKNOW), and Ana Maria Ventura (University of Lisbon) The successful implementation of the European Green Deal will mark a historic achievement in the European Union economic, environmental and social development. It will affect the global economic trends in the decades to come. [...]
The European Parliament approved the report on the long-term vision for the EU’s rural areas, which highlights the need for measures at all levels that ensure digital inclusion and promote adapted digital skills.
The guide provides rural elected representatives a methodology and concrete examples to put into practice the Smart Village approach in their territory.
The project aims at improving the collective capacity to understand, assess and foresee the full range of benefits and costs of farm digitalisation, and to build digital ecosystems that maximise the net benefits of digitalisation.
Check out the policy recommendations identified by PEFC Italy, Amigo, CNR-ISTI and UNIPI to promote the adoption of digital tools in a sustainable way in these remote places.
