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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. jún 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
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. jún 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
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. jún 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. jún 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
MALTESE: Training in Malta turns digital tools into rural action
3. jún 2026 • Daniel Amariei, PAMEA
A four-day training programme under PoliRuralPlus brought together young people, farmers, entrepreneurs, educators, and local stakeholders in Malta to test digital tools, explore circular agri-busine
J- VERSE: Using Knowledge Graphs to Validate Jackdaw Against Weather APIs and IoT Data
2. jún 2026 • Vasilis Papadopoulos, Catalink
Validating JackDaw with J-VERSEJackDaw is an AI-powered GeoAI chatbot and spatial intelligence assistant developed under the Horizon Europe project PoliRuralPlus. It is designed to help users interac
SYLVAN-AI: Validating JackDaw GeoAI for Sustainable Forestry and Land Management in Europe
26. máj 2026 • Amir A. Zadpoor, Sylvanity B.V. (ENHANCE Open Call Winner)
Navigating Complex Forestry Data Europe's forests generate vast amounts of critical information, ranging from satellite imagery and land-use records to biodiversity maps and protected-area datas
PoliRuralPlus x QuantiFarm Synergy Webinar
The PoliRuralPlus x QuantiFarm Synergy Webinar explored how digital tools developed within each project can transform agricultural and territorial data into practical insights for farmers, advisors, policymakers and rural communities.
26. máj 2026 • Katerina Sachsamanoglou (GAIA EPICHEIREIN)
On the 18th of May, the EU-funded projects PoliRuralPlus and QuantiFarm joined forces for an online synergy webinar exploring how digital tools developed within each project can support farmers, advi
GeoEDUHealth Access Bacău: Validating JackDaw GeoAI for Territorial Accessibility in Rural Romania
19. máj 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 as the only Romanian company selected under the ENHANCE cascade funding call within the PoliRur
The PoliRuralPlus Spanish Pilot: Connecting Rural Territories Through CoCreation
How collaboration and local knowledge are driving rural innovation in the ADESIMAN territory
12. máj 2026 • Julián Orden del Pozo
The Spanish pilot of PoliRuralPlus is being implemented in the ADESIMAN territory, a rural area that reflects many of the broader challenges currently faced by rural regions across Europe. Demographi