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Map services for rural sustainability: from energy renovation to climate-conscious land use

None • Avoin Map Oy, Otso Valta

How much energy could a renovation save? What would it cost, and how would it affect emissions? What happens to carbon storage when a new building, road, power line or renewable-energy site is planne

Activity Map for rural events: making local life easier to discover

The Activity Map web service centred on the Mallusjoki pilot area in Finland, demonstrating events and destinations in a shared map view.

None • Avoin Map Oy, Otso Valta

A rural area may have an active cultural life, beautiful natural destinations and a full calendar of community events—and still appear almost empty online.Information may be divided between social-me

From farm to visitor: how we taught JackDaw to speak for our estate

1. elokuuta 2026 • Roberto Gimenez, Espacio SOA SLU

Since this spring, visitors to Aires de la Vera carry something new in their pocket: direct access to JackDaw, the GeoAI agent of PoliRuralPlus, from inside the estate's app. They can ask it contextu

Testing GeoAI Beyond the Lab: Lessons from the eMooJI Project

31. heinäkuuta 2026 • Jeet Biswas, Moofind UG

Artificial intelligence for geospatial analysis is advancing rapidly, but its value ultimately depends on whether real people can use it to solve real problems. During the six-month eMooJI project, f

AURA concludes: validating GeoAI for better rural–urban decisions

In Central Macedonia, Greece, AURA tested how a conversational GeoAI tool can support more accessible, evidence-informed decisions for communities, public authorities and local businesses.

28. heinäkuuta 2026 • Dr. Charalampos Kyfonidis, Synapsi

Making territorial intelligence easier to useAURA (Assessment of Urban–Rural AI) validated JackDaw, a GeoAI chatbot that combines natural-language interaction with geographic, demographic, environmen

The AI Assistant Behind DASK

A new scientific preprint documents Falco eleonorae, the Greek-first, geospatially grounded assistant built for the farmers of Kythera and Antikythera, and the design choices that make an AI assistant usable on a remote island.

28. heinäkuuta 2026 • Nikolaos Tantaroudas, Daskalos Apps

Over the past year, the DASK (Digital Agricultural Skills and Knowledge) pilot has reported on its work in stages: i) the development of an integrated platform for the agricultural communities of Kyt

Testing JackDaw in practice: lessons from the second FloodAI+ workshop

A one-hour hands-on session showed where conversational GeoAI can make flood-risk information easier to access, and where stronger maps, provenance and local detail are still needed.

27. heinäkuuta 2026 • Ana Silva, Porvalor

From expectations to hands-on testingThe first FloodAI+ workshop established clear expectations. Stakeholders wanted maps that explain risk, understandable answers for different users, information ab

One Country at a Time: How a Code Camp in Piraeus Added a Czech Forest Layer to SYLVAN-AI — and a Blueprint for the Rest

SYLVAN-AI already searched 442 million cadastral parcels across 27 countries. Through the JackDaw Code Camp it gained something continental data cannot provide: a national forestry classification, contributed by the institute that maintains it.

27. heinäkuuta 2026 • Amir Abbas Zad Poor, Sylvanity B.V.

A platform designed to absorb national knowledgeSYLVAN-AI is a chat-enabled forest manager, selected under the PoliRuralPlus Enhance Open Call to validate the JackDaw tool-using GeoLLM in one of the

The future of short food supply chains in Apulia is digital: "Field2Fork AI Hub" concludes successfully

From the synergy between Artificial Intelligence and local agriculture comes the "Personal Farmer": technology at the service of producers and consumers for zero-mile, healthy, and sustainable shopping.

27. heinäkuuta 2026 • DARe Puglia, EXO

The journey of the pilot project Field2Fork AI Hub officially concluded with a series of key milestones in July 2026. Funded under the European initiative PoliRuralPlus (Horizon Europe), the project

ARISE final results: a reusable Heritage Synergy Platform for rural territories

After nine months of implementation, ARISE leaves Sierra y Mancha Conquense with a live public service, a multi-actor workspace and a practical basis for replication.

27. heinäkuuta 2026 • Pedro Branco, Obsidian Innovation Institute

What happens when a rural territory has exceptional heritage assets, active local businesses and committed organisations, but the information connecting them remains fragmented? This was the question