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.
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.
On the 20th September 2022, a group of 19 researchers representing three Horizon 2020 projects (DESIRA, MOVING and SHERPA) met in Portugal to work collaboratively on a range of academic papers to communicate the findings from their research.
On 26-29 September 2022, the Horizon 2020 project SmartAgriHubs organised its Final Event. More than 350 stakeholders, including Digital Innovation Hubs, Competence Centres, technology providers, policy-makers, researchers, investors, and agri-food associations attended the conference, which took place in Lisbon. Tuesday 27 and Wednesday 28 were the Synergy Days, [...]
The OECD has recently published a report, the first of a series focusing on enhancing rural innovation, to unlock the innovative potential of rural places and face the global slowdown in productivity.
The European Commission's Directorate General for Agriculture and Rural Development has established the European CAP Network, merging the European Network for Rural Development (ENRD) and the European Innovation Partnership for agricultural productivity and sustainability (EIP-AGRI).
As part of the Rural Action plan, the European Commission has published a new Digital Rural Index with many indicators to monitor Europe’s overall digital performance and track the evolution of EU Member States.
