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🌱 Join Us in Building a Circular Future in County Monaghan, Ireland!
The Irish Pilot is expanding its network of stakeholders in County Monaghan, Ireland, with a special focus on Circular Economy and Waste Management. We are seeking stakeholders (partners) from the pr
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Multi-locality and visitors to the region promote interactions between rural and urban areas
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Irish Pilot's 2nd Stakeholders Meeting
In December 2024 , the second stakeholders meeting for the Irish Pilot of the PoliRuralPlus project was held online via MS Teams. The primary objectives of the meeting were to validate the roadmap fo
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DigiStake: Transforming Slovakia Through Digital Innovation and Rural – Urban Collaboration
The DigiStake project is poised to redefine rural development in Slovakia by fostering enhanced stakeholder cooperation, embracing digital transformation and creating synergies between rural and urba
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DEMO-IT to support Short Food Supply Chain initiatives
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Self-sufficient agriculture: hopes and dreams vs. reality
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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.
