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ADESIMAN Recognised with Regional Environmental Award for Advancing Rural Energy Transition in the Spanish PoliRuralPlus Pilot
ADESIMAN has received the 2026 Castilla-La Mancha Regional Environmental Award in the category of Renewable Energy, Sustainable Mobility and Energy Efficiency. This recognition highlights the work ca
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FloodAI+ holds its first workshop to present JackDaw and collect stakeholder feedback
FloodAI+ held its first online workshop, dedicated to presenting JackDaw, the GeoAI LLM developed to support flood-risk information, and to collecting feedback from stakeholders on the questions they
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The Field2Fork Project: State of the Art and Summary of the Integration between Artificial Intelligence, E-commerce, and the 0-Km Agricultural Supply Chain
The Field2Fork AI Hub project (funded by the European program PoliRural Plus and developed by DARe Puglia and EXO) was created to break down barriers between small rural producers in the province of
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LocalLinks AI Nears Completion Following Extensive Stakeholder Testing
The LocalLinks AI project, supported through the PoliRural Plus Develop Open Call, is entering its final phase, with the public release of the application expected in the near future.According to a r
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From the Counter to the Customer’s Screen: How Digital Skills and Product Photography Power Rural E-Commerce
On Saturday, 20 June 2026, a community hall in Chora, Kythera, filled with something you would not usually associate with digital transformation: jars of thyme honey, bottles of local wine and craft
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Practical workshops in Vidzeme to define monitoring indicators for entrepreneurship and innovation
To support the development of a unified monitoring system across the municipalities of the Vidzeme planning region (VPR) in the area of economic activity and business support measures and to strength
Read morePoliRuralPlus Main aim
PoliRuralPlus extends and enriches the achievements of its predecessor, the PoliRural, by delving deeper into the complexities of rural and urban interconnectivity. It deploys a sophisticated suite of digital tools, including Artificial Intelligence, Geographic Information Systems, Internet of Things, and advanced data analytics. The project's core mission is to tackle prevalent issues such as administrative fragmentation, inequality, and inefficiencies
in public service coordination, fostering an environment of enhanced cooperation and equal opportunities across rural and urban divides. Central to PoliRuralPlus are 9 pilot projects that serve as proving grounds for an EU-wide integrated approach to territorial planning and action foresight. PoliRuralPlus ambitiously expands its scope to include the urban dimension, thus embracing a broader perspective on development.
PoliRuralPlus Objectives
To develop and implement a foresight-based framework for interregional cooperation and coordination, aimed at overcoming policy barriers and improving governance arrangements to foster integrated and smart rural-urban development strategies
To develop and implement integrated strategies and action plans that enhance the availability of business and innovation opportunities in rural areas, while promoting a more proximate, circular, and green economy and revitalising rural places through better connectivity, improved valorization of cultural and natural heritage, and stronger innovation ecosystems.
To enhance mutual access to services and social connectivity between rural and urban areas, as well as build resilience and capacity for innovation through the implementation of regional action plans and pilot initiatives.
Contribute to the implementation of the European Green Deal, with a specific focus on the farm-to-fork and biodiversity strategies, the organic action plan, the common agricultural policy (CAP), the long-term vision for the EU’s rural areas, the flagship initiative “Research and innovation for rural communities,” and the EU territorial agenda for 2030.
To enhance cross-disciplinary collaboration and leverage the full potential of European Research Infrastructures, EOSC, EU Data spaces, INSPIRE, Copernicus, DIAS, Eurostat, FAO, and other relevant data sources for integrated rural-urban development.
To facilitate mission-oriented experimentation and innovation by leveraging data-driven decision-making, collaborative analysis, and system dynamics to advance the development of a well-being economy based on proximity, circularity, green economy/society, services, culture, landscape and heritage, and mobility.
To create synergies with the New European Bauhaus (NEB) and other EU-funded projects, facilitating ideas flows from urban to rural settings and vice versa.
