The recently published EAFRD Projects Brochure highlights a diverse range of innovative ICT projects from across the EU. All of the projects featured in the brochure have been submitted by NRNs as interesting rural development initiatives and useful contributions to building the ‘knowledge society’ in rural areas.
Descriptions of a range of further examples of projects with an ICT theme (or important ICT component) can be downloaded below:
Member State | Project Title | PDF |
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Bulgaria |
Purchase of Agricultural Machinery for Sorting and Preparing Potatoes for Sale |
[ PDF
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Finland |
The Laajakaistaakyliin (Broadband to the Villages) Project |
[ PDF
] |
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“Neuro Cattle” Project |
[ PDF
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Germany |
Virtual Limes Worlds |
[ PDF
] |
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Lithuania |
Marketing Tools to Build the Tourism Image of the Jurbarkas Region and Promote Local Tourism |
[ PDF
] |
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Portugal |
PROVE – Promoting and Selling |
[ PDF
] |
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Improving and extending the mobile home-help service (SMAD) |
[ PDF
] |
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Spain |
System for Checking Grape Quality Using Machine Vision |
[ PDF
] |
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Plenary session
Opening and welcome
Alina Ujupan, Member of the Cabinet of Commissioner Ciolos [PDF
]
Constanijn van Oranje-Nassau, Member of the Cabinet of Commissioner
Broadband infrastructure and ultra fast internet for rural areas: state of play and policy considerations
New Digital Agenda for Europe - conceptual and practical implications for EAFRD and rural areas, by Detlef Eckert, Directorate General Information Society and Media
Recovery package and EAFRD support for broadband in rural areas: state of play, by Josefine Loriz-Hoffmann, Directorate General Agriculture and Rural Development [PDF
]
Agriculture and ICT in the United States, by Jonathan Adelstein, United States Department of Agriculture
Member States' broadband schemes for rural areas and examples of implementation
Implementation of the Recovery package, by Andreas Mattisson (Swedish Board of Agriculture) [PDF
]
ICT, broadband and e-skills, use of electronic applications in Hungarian rural development schemes, by Imre Wayda (Ministry of Rural Development, Hungary) [PDF
]
User's perspective: accessibility and use of broadband in rural areas, by John Hannafin (Tipperary Institute, Ireland) [PDF
]
Three parallel workshops
Workshop 1: ICT for agriculture and agri-food chain development
ICT and (new) farm business management: farmer's perspective, by Guus Van Laarhoven (Dairy farmer and Project manager at ZLTO, Netherlands) [PDF
], and Marijke Van Hooijdonk (COPA-COGECA) [PDF
]
ICT and food chain integration: interface between farmers and other food chain actors and consumers; marketing and transparency issues, by José Diogo (PROVE project, Portugal) [PDF
]
Research on ICT and farm business management, products' marketing and transparency, by Tomas Robles Valladares (Rural Living Labs, c@r project) [PDF
]
Workshop 2: ICT and the environment
Agri-environment and ICT – What could EAFRD support?, by Ariel Brunner (BirdLife International) [PDF
]
Examples of how ICT can support water management and consequently energy efficiency in the context of rural development, by Tim Hess (Cranfield University, UK) [PDF
]
Carbon footprinting and carbon labelling in agriculture - is there scope for their introduction into rural development? How can ICT contribute to this?, by Rasmus Priess (THEMA1 GmbH, Germany) [PDF
]
Workshop 3: ICT, e-governance and the rural society
ICT and local area development, by Marit Schweiker (Council of European Municipalities and Regions) [PDF
]
Developing human capital, by Sandrine Bousquet (Cybermassif network_ EUROMONTANA) [PDF
]
Delivery of ICT based services in rural areas, by Kerli Kõiv (LAG Võrumaa Partnership Assembly) [PDF
], and by Martin Mark (Võru County Youth Work Market web-page project) [PDF
], Estonia
Closing plenary session
Reporting back from workshops and questions and answers
Rapporteurs:
- Mark Redman (ENRD Contact Point)
- Michael Gregory (ENRD Contact Point) [PDF
]
- Adrian Neal (ENRD Contact Point)
Closing Remarks, by José Manuel Sousa Uva, Director, DG AGRI, European Commission [PDF
]