SMART community-led transition for Europe's Rural Areas

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24.00087

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SMART community-led transition for Europe's Rural Areas

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Abstract (Englisch)	Depopulation, mostly characterized by emigration of young people, is occurring in rural areas all over Europe. This has broughtto an ageing phenomenon, as well as the emergence of several structural problems such as fewer job opportunities, degradation ofinfrastructures and a decreasing offer of services of general interest. However, the revolution in digitalisation with an increase of remoteand location-free work opportunities is offering the chance to redirect some rural migration flows back. Interventions are thus needed totake up this opportunity and build on trends such as multi-local living to promote new greener, smaller, sustainable and innovative growthmodels. It is there where SMART ERA intervenes. The project will foster resilience in rural areas, by upgrading and co-designing, codevelopingand co-validating with local communities a set of smart solutions, integrated within Smart Innovation Packages (SIPs) able totackle pressing socio-economic and environmental challenges and promote a community-led transition pathway that will empower ruralpeople to act for change. SMART ERA’s main ambitions are: a) building the first large-scale European-wide solution for systematic ruraldata screening and smartness analysis; b) using co-design methods and techniques to involve residents and stakeholders in the designand validation of SIPs, as well as in the collection of old and creation of new data sources; c) proposing a unified Smartness/DigitalMaturity assessment method; d) providing unique and timely evidence-based and performance-focused recommendations to upgradethe new local, national and European policy instruments and enhance their efficiency and efficacy in supporting smart villages acrossthe EU; e) fostering cooperation among pilot regions, as well as among the four EU macro-regional strategies and improve their ruralcommunities’ ability to address socio-economic and environmental challenges.

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Depopulation, mostly characterized by emigration of young people, is occurring in rural areas all over Europe. This has broughtto an ageing phenomenon, as well as the emergence of several structural problems such as fewer job opportunities, degradation ofinfrastructures and a decreasing offer of services of general interest. However, the revolution in digitalisation with an increase of remoteand location-free work opportunities is offering the chance to redirect some rural migration flows back. Interventions are thus needed totake up this opportunity and build on trends such as multi-local living to promote new greener, smaller, sustainable and innovative growthmodels. It is there where SMART ERA intervenes. The project will foster resilience in rural areas, by upgrading and co-designing, codevelopingand co-validating with local communities a set of smart solutions, integrated within Smart Innovation Packages (SIPs) able totackle pressing socio-economic and environmental challenges and promote a community-led transition pathway that will empower ruralpeople to act for change. SMART ERA’s main ambitions are: a) building the first large-scale European-wide solution for systematic ruraldata screening and smartness analysis; b) using co-design methods and techniques to involve residents and stakeholders in the designand validation of SIPs, as well as in the collection of old and creation of new data sources; c) proposing a unified Smartness/DigitalMaturity assessment method; d) providing unique and timely evidence-based and performance-focused recommendations to upgradethe new local, national and European policy instruments and enhance their efficiency and efficacy in supporting smart villages acrossthe EU; e) fostering cooperation among pilot regions, as well as among the four EU macro-regional strategies and improve their ruralcommunities’ ability to address socio-economic and environmental challenges.