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GeoEDUHealth Access – Bacău: Final Validation of the JackDaw GeoAI Solution for Territorial Accessibility in Rural Romania

Participants at the second validation workshop, at the Bacău County Council headquarters, 29 June 2026.

10 de julio de 2026 • Constantin Avrămescu, General Director & AI/GIS Expert, MEDIA TREND SRL | Alexandru-Norbert Droiman, Project Manager, MEDIA TREND SRL

The Context: Why Bacău County?The GeoEDUHealth Access - Bacău project is implemented by MEDIA TREND SRL, the only Romanian company selected under the ENHANCE cascade funding call, part of the PoliRur

Maps first, decisions next: lessons from JackDaw’s first FloodAI+ workshop

How stakeholder feedback is helping validate JackDaw and the new Flood Connector for practical flood-risk decisions

8 de julio de 2026 • Ana Silva, Porvalor

Why FloodAI+ matters nowFlood-risk information is becoming richer, more spatial and more data-driven. Hazard layers, satellite imagery, exposure models, vulnerability indicators and rainfall scenario

LocalLinks AI Brings Regional Food Networks Closer to Consumers

A Digital Map Connecting Farmers from the Pilsen Region with the Places Where You Can Buy Their Products

4 de julio de 2026 • LocalLinks.AI Team (DEVELOP Open Call Winner – Pilot 6, Bavaria–Czech Region)

Where can you buy cheese from a farm just over the hill? Which local shop sells juice from a nearby orchard, or meat from a regional producer? Finding answers to these questions is often more difficu

Bringing AI Closer to Farmers: How eMooJI Makes Map-Based Decisions Easier

1 de julio de 2026 • Jeet Biswas, Moofind

eMooJI is Moofind’s validation project under the PoliRuralPlus ENHANCE Call, testing how JackDaw can make complex spatial data easier to use for farmers and rural stakeholders. By combining GeoAI, Ea

Putting JackDaw to the Test: Early Findings from AURA's Usability Evaluation

29 de junio de 2026 • AURA project

Earlier this year, the AURA project set out to answer a deceptively simple question: can an AI chatbot built on geospatial, climatic and demographic data actually help people in Central Macedonia mak

PoliRuralPlus joins the INTERESH Policy Lab

Strengthening dialogue among local actors to support sustainable agriculture and integrated territorial development

28 de junio de 2026 • Tinada

On 16 June, PoliRuralPlus participated in the Policy Lab organised by the INTERESH project, an event dedicated to sustainable soil management and the role of coordinated policy action in supporting m

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.

24 de junio de 2026 • LocalLinks.AI Team (DEVELOP Open Call Winner – Pilot 6, Bavaria–Czech Region)

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

From the Counter to the Customer’s Screen: How Digital Skills and Product Photography Power Rural E-Commerce

A hands-on DASK workshop with local producers in Chora, Kythera, shows what it takes to turn island products into sellable online listings.

24 de junio de 2026 • DASK team (Develop Open Call Winner for Pilot 3 - Central Greece Region)

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

Practical workshops in Vidzeme to define monitoring indicators for entrepreneurship and innovation

Municipal specialists from across Vidzeme are collaborating to develop a unified, data-driven monitoring system that will strengthen entrepreneurship support and regional economic development.

17 de junio de 2026 • Ieva Upeniece (Vidzeme)

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

ARISE moves towards completion: connecting cultural heritage, local businesses and territorial collaboration in Sierra y Mancha Conquense

One month before project completion, ARISE is consolidating its public digital platform and preparing the final steps towards validation, sustainability and replication.

10 de junio de 2026 • Pedro Branco, Obsidian Innovation Institute

ARISE - Archaeological Routes for Inclusive Synergy & Entrepreneurship in Sierra y Mancha Conquense - is now entering its final implementation phase within PoliRuralPlus. One month before project