ELIF online webinar

 Territorial Development Thematic Community Meeting

AEIDL – the European Association for Innovation in Local Development – is promoting the (online) webinar on the role of local actors to drive smart, green and digital development in rural areas as part of the European Local Innovation Forum (ELIF). 

The ELIF Territorial Development Thematic Community meeting is an upcoming event that aims to discuss and improve smart innovation in local development in rural areas. The meeting will provide an informal and open-ended virtual space for participants to evaluate current programs and best practices while also considering future EU policies and funding beyond 2026.

Scheduled for June 22nd, 2023, the meeting will focus on exploring the implementation of smart development in rural areas, offering a practical perspective on the factors that drive or hinder progress. Attendees will have the opportunity to share their experiences on how communities contribute to development in rural areas and identify key drivers for local action.

The meeting will provide an informal and open-ended virtual space for participants to evaluate current programs and best practices while also considering future EU policies and funding beyond 2026.

Attendees will have the opportunity to share their experiences on how communities contribute to development in rural areas and identify key drivers for local action.

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• Presentation 1: Tool for practitioners: The Readiness Assessment tool to implement digital villages in the context of the project “Capitalizing on the good practices and lessons learned from the European Smart Villages Initiative”. (Daniela DiGianontonio, Digital Agriculture Team Leader of FAO Regional Office for Europe and Central Asia)
• Presentation 2:  Smart Villages and digitalisation (Jorge Caleya ZWIT Project, Spain).
• Presentation 3: Smart development in the green transition (Brindusa Birhala, Farm Manager at Grădina Urzicae, Romania)

• Gianluca Brunori, UNIPI
• Eamon O’Hara, ECOLISE
• Mauricio O'Brien, European Crowdfunding Network
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