DESIRA – Digitisation: Economic and Social Impacts in Rural Areas

The DESIRA (Digitisation: Economic and Social Impacts on Rural Areas) project 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 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.

DESIRA enrols agriculture, forestry and rural stakeholders in co-developing scenarios and policies in ‘Living Labs’ established in 20 European Regions, and a Rural Digitization Forum gathering 250 stakeholders from all Europe.

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.

Projects in Rural and Territorial Development (RTD)

RURACTIVE

Empowering Rural Communities to Act for Change

FUTURAL

Empowering the FUTure though innovative Smart Solutions for rURAL areas

GRASS Ceiling

GRASS Ceiling - Gender Equality in Rural and Agricultural Innovation SystemS

Tools4CAP

Tools4CAP

Tools4CAP - Innovative Toolbox empowering effective CAP governance towards EU ambitions

CODECS

CODECS - Assessing the impacts of digital technologies in agriculture – Cost, benefits, and potential for sustainability gains

BEATLES - Uncovering lock-ins and levers to encourage farmers to move to and stay in sustainable, climate-neutral and biodiversity-friendly farming systems: from experiments to systemic mechanisms

FAME-Net

Service Contract for Establishing and Running FAME-NET

MOVING (2020-2024)

MOVING - Building modern rural policies on long-term visions and societal engagement - MOuntain Valorisation through INterconnectedness and Green Growth

UNDERGROUND4VALUE (2019-2023)

Underground4Value - Underground Built Heritage as a Driver for Community Valorisation

CAP-Network

Contract for Networking Activities in Support of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) - Lot 1:Support for networking concerning the design and implementation of CAP strategic plan (CAP NETWORK)