Smart villages for a digital, green and resilient Europe

Brestanica Brestanica, Slovenia

The conference will provide answers on how the Long Term Vision for Rural Areas will mobilise public authorities and stakeholders to act on the needs and aspirations of rural residents. The international LAG forum is taking place side by side with the international conference, which is also one of the official [...]

European Week of Regions and Cities 2021

Online

The European Week of Regions and Cities (#EURegionsWeek) is the biggest annual Brussels-based event dedicated to cohesion policy. It has grown to become a unique communication and networking platform, bringing together regions and cities from all over Europe, including politicians, administrators, experts and academics. Over the last 18 [...]

Connectivity To Spark Rural Innovation: Building The Future for Remote Areas!

Online

The aim of this event is to bring to light innovative solutions on implementing smart technologies in rural, remote, and sparsely populated areas. We’ll be bringing together policymakers from the European Parliament, the European Commission, and the European Committee of the Regions, alongside industry leaders.

Farm to Fork Conference – Building sustainable food systems together

Online

The second edition of the Farm to Fork conference will be held in the days preceding World Food Day 2021: 14-15 October 2021. It is foreseen as a hybrid meeting with the audience joining virtually. The Farm to Fork conference 2021 will focus on the progress made on the initiatives [...]

Gender in agri-tech

Online

SmartAgriHubs and DEMETER, Horizon 2020 projects promoting the digital transformation of the European agri-food sector, are organising a free webinar on October 15th from 11AM to 12.30 (CET) to discuss the importance of gender diversity in agritech. Prominent professionals representing farmers, farmer organisations, technology and innovation projects will [...]

New tools for monitoring and evaluation: insights from the Evaluation Knowledge Bank

Online

The Evaluation Helpdesk has put data management at the centre of its agenda in 2021 through its good practice workshops and its thematic working group, 'Taking stock of the EU-level initiatives and projects for improving data-management and information systems for the purpose of monitoring and evaluation'. The results [...]

How will technology bring back young people to rural areas?

Online

On the 25th of October of 2021, SmartAgriHubs with the support of CEJA, MIJARC and RUMRA & Smart Villages will organise a high-level event. The event will have an online format to facilitate the attendance to the sessions and it will be chaired by the MEPs Jérémy Decerle and Bert-Jan Ruissen. The meeting will highlight [...]

Startup Village Forum: Launch event

Online

This launch event of the Startup Village Forum is specifically aimed at gathering both high-level political impulse and insights on challenges and potentials for rural startups Bringing together both science-based and community-based knowledge and experiences, the event seeks to provide knowledge on rural innovative start-ups, the types of [...]