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 [...]

DIONE Workshop SMART agricultural monitoring within the CAP umbrella and beyond

Online

The workshop is intended to show and promote the DIONE Toolbox – a ready-to-market and unique fusion of innovative technologies in the service of improved agricultural monitoring - for Paying Agencies, Certification Bodies, Agricultural Consultants, Officials from Ministries to abide by the modernised CAP (Common Agricultural Policy) and other agri-related [...]

Second meeting of the Rural Digitalisation Forum

Online

This second RDF meeting consisted of a foresight exercise, organised in two workshops (7 December 2021 and 8 February 2022). The aim of this exercise was to develop linkages between the DESIRA Living Lab scenarios up to 2031 and the Long-Term Vision for rural areas in 2040. The [...]

EIP Agri workshop: ‘Farm data for better farm performance’

Online

On 9-10 December 2021, the European Commission and the EIP-AGRI Support Facility are organising the online workshop 'Farm data for better farm performance'. Digital technologies and data-based solutions can help farmers work more precisely, efficiently, and sustainably, improving decision-making and farming practices, and helping increase farm’s environmental performance [...]

Roundtable: The importance of policies for the digitalisation of rural areas

Online

As part of the next DESIRA General Assembly, we are organising a round table on 'The importance of policies for the digitalisation of Rural Areas'. The policy session will take place on Wednesday, 26 January 2022, from 16:00h to 18:00h CET. At the event, we will have the [...]

SHERPA Annual Conference – Make it happen: Implementing the rural vision

Online

The second SHERPA Annual Conference: Make it happen! Implementing the rural vision will take place online during the afternoon of 31 January 2022 and the morning of 1 February 2022. The conference is building on the last edition, which was dedicated to the preparation of the EU Long-Term Vision [...]