The 25th International Conference on Information Systems for Agriculture and Forestry (ISAF) & 14th Geomatics in Projects & 6th annual conference of Plan4All together with the conference Agriculture 4.0 is keeping the virtual format this year still due to the worldwide situation with COVID-19.  The main virtual event will be organized on Wednesday...

PoliRural project is a Horizon2020 funded project that researches, innovates, and delivers novel solutions to future-oriented collaborative policy development for rural areas. PoliRural aims to intervene in the policy value chain.   What is then the policy value chain? This is my subjective interpretation of the policy value chain. It is shaped based on my experiences and...

One key element at the project is local stakeholder panels which engage diverse, multi-actor stakeholders that are attached to rural areas either by profession or otherwise. HÄME pilot has engaged 50 panel members. The members have been mapped according to the PoliRural standard procedure. The overall aim of stakeholder mapping is to identify actors interested and involved in collaborative...

PoliRural Newsletter #8 is now available, and it contains the latest information of the Project, including latest activities and findings from PoliRural pilots, the level of stakeholder engagement already obtained in the project, results from PoliRural third Foresight Summit, and more! Check it out here: https://polirural.eu/resources/newsletters/ TOPICS: Lessons learned from PoliRural:...

Semantic Explorer (SemEx) is one of the technical and innovative outputs of the PoliRural research project financed by the Horizon2020 Program of the EU. SemEx's ambitious vision is to provide support to researchers and facilitators by reducing the cognitive load related to tasks that are essential to research, development, and innovation actions.  Smart & Lean Hub Oy (S&L Hub) is...

The rural economies in the twelve pilots of the PoliRural project are characterized by their own challenges and dynamics. To illustrate the diversity and complexity of the rural economies in the twelve PoliRural pilots, case studies on new entrants and new activities in the twelve PoliRural pilots are gathered. Eventually the case studies on new entrants and new activities in the twelve...

The Open Spring INSPIRE Hackathon 2021 focused on developments and innovations in agriculture, the environment, transport, tourism, geospatial applications, remote sensing and GNSS goes after two-month hacking into the final stage scheduled on 17th June! More than 70 participants have contributed to all 11 very relevant series of challenges and their results are evaluated by an international...

PoliRural Newsletter #7 is now available! Main topics: It includes PoliRural latest results: Pilots recent developments (from Segóbriga, Central Greece, Flanders , Galilee); Participation of PoliRural in the “Rural Vision Week – Imagining the future of Europe’s Rural Areas” SEGÓBRIGA 21st century: developing an interactive app for tourism innovation Lessons learned from PoliRural:...

International development team was successful in the WSIS Prizes 2021 contest last week. Developed web application integrating different types of data for agriculture was selected as a nominated project. The World Summit On The Information Society (WSIS) Prizes 2021 contest is organized by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the International Telecommunication...

Main topics: Lessons learned from PoliRural: High-quality planning documents for rural regions can only be developed in collaboration with local communities Building a sense of belonging for the Monaghan PoliRural Pilot Initiative “Long-term vision for rural areas”: call for inputs from H2020 RUR Projects The COVID-19 INSPIRE Hackathon 2020 Open Bioeconomy Week 2021 – Call for Abstracts ...

The organizing committee is following the current COVID-19 situation closely. The event will be organized as a hybrid, combining online and face-to-face participation if the pandemic situation allows. Online participation will be possible throughout the scientific programme of the event. We would like to invite you to the 2nd Open Bioeconomy Week (OBW) to be held in Hämeenlinna, Finland on...

After more than two months of hacking, the COVID-19 INSPIRE Hackathon was terminated by a final presentation of results & awards ceremony. The jury members Jovana Vlaskalin (BioSense Institute), Beata Vörösová (CzechInvest), Maris Albers (University of Latvia) and Josef Hnojil (Geobusiness) announced the following winners for the COVID-19 INSPIRE hackathon: 1st place – Challenge #13...

We would like to invite you to present your technology and work in the area of IoT technologies for Agriculture at the next 117 OGC Technical meeting, which will be organized virtually. The Iot for Agriculture Session will be organized on the 7th of December 2020 at 14 00   and 16 00  of US Eastern Standard Time (EST). It means 20 00 and 22 00 of Central European Time. ...

COVID-19 INSPIRE Hackathon 2020 aiming to develop and share agri-food economy solutions to balance the imperatives of the present with the demands of the future goes after two-month hacking into the final stage scheduled at 19th November 12:30 PM! Register now! In the COVID-19 INSPIRE Hackathon hackers have addressed the following topics: Facilitate access to data and services for an...

Petr Uhlir from WirelessInfo took part in 5G TECHRITORY - 3rd Baltic Sea Region 5G Ecosystem Forum in Panel discussion with Topic: European Digital Innovation Hubs (EDIHs) Description: The need and current challenges of the digital transition and innovation. Expected role of European Digital Innovation Hubs (EDIHs). European added value based on EDIH networking. Digital transformation -how to...

WIRELESSINFO is glad to invite you to the Final Conference of the project “ENABLING - Enhance New Approaches in Biobased Local Innovation Networks for Growth” which will be held Friday 13th November from 10.00 to 13.00 on the online platform EIMA DIGITAL PREVIEW. The project ENABLING, implemented within the EU programme H2020 and coordinated by FEDERUNACOMA and ITABIA, has developed a set of...

Youtube replay: https://youtu.be/WMEMw-CuYPQ Agenda of the webinar: Welcome from the moderator Hackathon introduction and quick overview of 3 challenges: similarities and differences Atlas of the Best Practices (the Enabling project) – common technical platform for presentation of outputs of individual Challenges Ch. 2 presentation goals, the Atlas prototype – Regional Specialities,...

Are you still thinking about registration for the challenge #4? Do you need more information about the main goals and general understanding of rural attractiveness? You will learn this and much more from the COVID-19 INSPIRE Hackathon mentors during the webinar dedicated to challenge #4 of COVID 19 INSPIRE Hackathon that is scheduled on 12th October.  Agenda of the webinar: ...

Last week, a two-week long W3C workshop brought together experts in geographic standards and Web map data services, Web mapping client tools and applications, and Web platform standards and browser development, to explore the potential of maps for the Web was concluded. On Wednesday 30th September there was a session dedicated to Advanced web graphics for mapping that...

Open Bioeconomy Week will be arranged on 29th and 30th September, 2020 at Hämeenlinna University Center at the premises of Häme University of Applied Sciences (HAMK) in Hämeenlinna, Finland. The event is supported by the Regional Council of Häme with the regional enterprises and other organizations working within the bioeconomy sector. Together with HAMK the organizing committee...