NEWS | Applications open for the Innovation Award for Women Farmers
The 7th edition of this competition launched by Copa-Cogeca will showcase many innovative approaches women take in finding new solutions to the challenges faced in rural areas.
NEWS | Browse through +600 digital tools reshaping agriculture, forestry, and EU rural areas!
At the moment, the majority of digital tools were gathered by DESIRA as part of our Taxonomy and Inventory of Digital Game-Changers.
NEWS | EU experts gather in Ghent for the DESIRA Rural Digitalisation Foresight
The purpose was to explore how digitalisation can help shape rural areas' responses to future challenges, in order to support policy-makers in considering long-term perspectives.
NEWS | The Rural Observatory, a tool to facilitate the rural proofing
The Joint Research Centre in coordination with the European Commission’s DG AGRI and DG REGIO has developed this platform that will provide more and better data about rural areas.
NEWS | DESIRA consortium meets for the last General Assembly
With the end of the project approaching later this year, partners focused on how to take stock of everything that has been done, planned the work for the close of the project, and identified ways of ensuring sustainability of results.
NEWS | Into the Digital Decade: Declaration on Digital Rights and Principles signed!
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.
NEWS | Towards more connected rural areas through the European Drone Strategy
Drones are tools that can provide better accessibility in remote rural areas, contribnuting to a sustainable and integrated mobility.
ARTICLE | Acceptance of digital technologies in rural areas – Insights from SOILdarity
Authors: Giuseppe Saija and Gabriele Quattrocchi (EUKNOW), and Ana Maria Ventura (University of Lisbon) The successful implementation of the European Green Deal will mark a historic achievement in the European Union economic, environmental and social development. It will affect the global economic trends in the decades to come. [...]
NEWS | Smart Villages are now considered as one of EC’s flagship projects
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.
NEWS | A French guide on Smart Villages
The guide provides rural elected representatives a methodology and concrete examples to put into practice the Smart Village approach in their territory.