Projects & Practice

Mobilising rural awareness in Finland about sustainable transport opportunities
 

The Digitally Visiting project has pioneered digital skill development in Central Finland. The project has demonstrated that there is a large need for local digital support to develop residents’ digital skills, especially in remote rural regions. The project encouraged and guided rural residents to use electronic services and so has contributed to making rural living in Central Finland more appealing.
 

This project is an example of how villagers can get access to high-speed broadband networks even in remote and sparsely populated rural areas. It is the winning initiative of the 2019 Rural Inspiration Awards in the 'Rural Revitalisation' category.

The Rural Broadband project is a national intervention to close the digital divide in remote and sparsely populated rural ‘white areas’.

A small, remote rural community of around 1 300 inhabitants in Finland launched a Digi-Hub for the elderly.

A study financed by the Finnish RDP aimed to find new digital solutions for making reindeer husbandry a more efficient and profitable business.

A collaborative system of precision viticulture enabling farmers to have online real time information about the health of the vineyards and make more targeted phytosanitary interventions.

In Sweden, local non-profit associations, encouraged and supported by the public sector, are carrying out the building of broadband infrastructure in the countryside.

The PRIP project extended the national fibre-optic network in Lithuania to some of the remotest rural communities.

A local association used EAFRD support to get broadband coverage in a rural area which was previously lacking any access to internet or telephone connection.