(13 September 2019) – DESIRA is a new project that aims to improve the capacity of society and political bodies to respond to the challenges that digitisation generates in rural areas, agriculture and forestry, and to provide a comprehensive assessment of both opportunities and threats.
To achieve its goal, DESIRA (Digitisation: Economic and Social Impacts on Rural Areas) wants to build a knowledge and methodological base that makes it easier to assess the past, current and future socio-economic impacts of ICT-related innovation.
It seeks to embed Responsible Research and Innovation into researchers’, developers’ and users’ practices and policies, and looks to offer mechanisms and tools that will support decision-making on challenges and opportunities related to digitisation.
This Horizon 2020 project coordinated by the University of Pisa, Italy, brings together 25 organisations, including AEIDL, from across sectors and disciplines including research institutes, NGOs, and SMEs.
The DESIRA consortium met on 4 September in Pisa for two and a half days to kick off the project.
The official website of DESIRA will be launched very soon. In the meantime, you can subscribe to the newsletter and follow the project on social media to stay tuned.