Author: Manlio Bacco, CNR (National Research Council, Italy) A recent scientific paper by Manlio Bacco of CNR (National Research Council of Italy), together with other authors, overviews research initiatives and scientific literature on the topic of Smart Farming (SF), looking at recent technologies and techniques being used or [...]
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 [...]
In DESIRA - Digitisation: Economic and Social Impacts in Rural Areas, we are 25 partners from 16 Members States coming together to implement this 4-year project. Our main objective is to improve the capacity of society and political bodies to respond to the challenges of digitalisation in [...]
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 [...]
DESIRA (Digitisation: Economic and Social Impacts on Rural Areas) is a Horizon 2020 Project coordinated by the University of Pisa. It aims to improve the capacity of society and political bodies to respond to the challenges that digitisation generates in rural areas, agriculture and forestry, and to [...]
