eRural@work

What is eRural about?

Our vision

"Develop Information Society in rural areas to foster European development and integration, to increase competitiveness of European companies, to stem rural depopulation and to diversify income and employment opportunities in rural areas."

Rural development is not only about a competitive European agriculture, but each day it is focusing more on meeting the expectations of citizens in rural areas, 80% of European area and 22% of European inhabitants, achieving a deeper integration into today's society and promoting economic development. The large opportunities that technological progress is offering to address key societal challenges still require significant progress of state of the art technologies for its application to rural areas and its transformation into products and services that address their specific situation.

Read more about Research and Policy Cases in Agriculture and Rural Development on the following pages.

Projects

Agrifood Projects

GoodFood (FP6)	Food Safety and Quality Monitoring with Microsystems
AFORO (FP5)	AGRI-FOOD ROADMAP. A vision and workplan to implement future RTD trends fro the transformation of agri-food industries into digital companies

Rural Development

BEACON (FP6)	The potential socio-economic impact of broadband access and use on new forms of pan-European trading, collaborative work and advanced public service provision
Rural Wins (FP5)	Roadmap for ICT solutions for Rural Areas and Maritime Regions

Information and Documentation

Events

July 25-28, 2005

EFITA/WCCA2005 Joint Conference, Vila Real, Portugal
The 5th Conference of the European Federation for Information Technology in Agriculture, Food and Environment
and The 3rd World Congress on Computers in Agriculture and Natural Resources

Past Events

20. & 21. 4.2004	Information Systems at Agricultural, Forestry and Rural Areas - enlargement of EU 10th International Conference, Seč u Chrudimi, Czech Republic
23.01.2004	Speech on "Lisbon strategy. Is it only for urban areas?" By Jean-Françis Hulot (Directorate General Agriculture. European Commission)
15.09.2003	eRural Conference, Brussels Commission Contact: Isidro Laso-Ballesteros. European Commission. DG Information Society; New Working Environments. Final conclusions of the conference
5-9.07.2003	EFITA2003 Conference, Debrecen-Budapest, Hungary Conference Papers
03. - 04.02.2003	Conference on "Information Society as Key Enabler for Rural Development", Valencia Find online: - The Valencia Declaration - La Declaración de Valencia - A list of participants

Articles / News / Publications

Autumn 2004	SCENARIO : NGCWE in Remote and Rural Settings	130 KB
September 2003	ERISA Newsletter No. 12: article on the eRural Conference on page 12	295 KB
February 2003	DRAFT WORKING DOCUMENT on "Information Society As Key Enabler For Rural Development And Integration", in preparation of the Declaration of Valencia.	Valencia Conference


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Last update: 24/11/2006