On 17 June 2020, Work Package 2 leaders and Living Labs coordinators, met online to prepare analytical tools and activities that will help assess the impact of digitalisation in each of the 20 Living Labs set-up across Europe. The meeting was facilitated by the University of Pisa and [...]
Since the beginning of the pandemic, the activities and meetings of DESIRA have moved online. That is also the case for our project Steering Committee members, who are now meeting regularly online to discuss and exchange updates and progress on the development of the project. Today, we had [...]
The EU Rural Digitisation Forum (RDF) is an open EU-wide community of stakeholders with a common interest to work, learn and share knowledge about the digitalisation of agriculture, forestry and rural areas. With the aim of opening a space for discussion and knowledge sharing on all things rural [...]
Consortium partners gathered for a virtual General Assembly over three days, 12-14 May 2020, to advance work on the Horizon 2020 project, DESIRA. Much of the work undertaken by partners has been advancing smoothly. Good progress was made in the development of the Conceptual Analytical Framework for the [...]
On 29 January 2020, DESIRA attended the high-level event organised by IoF2020 and SmartAgriHubs at the European Parliament to discuss about ‘Smart Farming: Digitalisation of Agriculture and vision for the new CAP’. The event gathered a varied range of stakeholders such as young farmers, organic farmers, farmer cooperatives, [...]
Coordinators of four Horizon 2020 projects launched last year under the Rural Renaissance call organised a meeting to foster cooperation and synergies among the projects. DESIRA, SHERPA, POLIRURAL and Ruralization met on 9 January 2020 together with representatives from DG AGRI and the Research Executive Agency. The [...]
First meeting of the year for DESIRA project brought together the Steering Committee to overview current status of the project and agreed upon the organisation of the first EU Rural Digitisation Forum. During the gathering, project partners discussed the progress and milestones of the project and decided [...]
On 18 December 2019, our DESIRA partners, Leanne Townsend and Claire Hardy from the SEGS group at James Hutton Institute, visited the Coigach and Assynt Living Landscape Partnership (CALLP) situated in Wester Ross and Sutherland on the West Coast of Scotland, UK. The visit was planned to [...]
One of DESIRA partners from James Hutton Institute, Leanne Townsend was invited to speak at the DigiMetis Symposium held on 26 November 2019 at the Wageningen University and Research. Leanne's talk introduced the main objectives of the DESIRA project and focused on inequalities created in rural areas as [...]
On 29th October, Leanne Townsend gave a keynote presentation at the EIP-AGRI “Small is Smart” workshop in Bucharest, Romania. Workshop participants included farmers, farmers’ organisations, foresters, EIP-AGRI Operational Groups, SMEs, start-ups, advisors, universities, research and technology organisations, foresters, rural networks and others involved in relevant initiatives and [...]
