Project description
A dynamic ecosystem supporting the socio-economic development of rural areas
Rural areas face many challenges which limit their ability to develop private businesses and public services. Helping to pave the way for smart rural communities, the EU-funded AURORAL project aims to increase connectivity and deliver a digital environment of interoperable services via platforms that can spark rural ecosystems of innovation chains, applications and services. This will help reduce the digital divide between urban and rural areas in Europe and contribute to economic growth and job creation in rural areas while tackling societal challenges. The project’s digital environment – cost-efficient and flexible cross-domain applications – will be validated in large-scale pilots in selected European regions, pivotal to establishing an investment platform for Smart Communities.
Objective
Lower population and business density make it more challenging to develop private businesses and public services in rural areas, negatively impacting socio-economic indicators. Rural areas are key to solve climate change, food, biomass and energy challenges. Favourable climate for entrepreneurship is needed for better provision of jobs, basic services, including health and care, connectivity, smart transport, energy solutions and attractiveness as whole, overcoming digital divide between rural and urban areas. AURORAL focus on delivering a digital environment of interoperable services through platforms able to trigger dynamic rural ecosystems of innovation chains, applications and services. Thus, AURORAL contributes to increasing economic growth in rural areas and to tackle significant societal challenges. AURORAL digital environment is demonstrated by cost-efficient and flexible cross-domain applications through large-scale pilots in five European regions. AURORAL digital environment builds on an open, API-based, interoperable and federated IoT architecture and includes a reference implementation supporting flexible integration of heterogeneous services, bridging the interoperability gap of the smart object platforms and creating markets for services in rural areas. AURORAL digital environment addresses the integration of data and information across different platforms, establishment of an open market place, large-scale demonstration, multiplication of novel applications, the leverage of infrastructure and inclusion of public services. AURORAL pilots follow an evolutionary agile, well-delineated, and lean approach demonstrated in large-scale applications capable of meeting social and economic objectives critical to boost new rural services and business. AURORAL digital environment supports a vibrant ecosystem of developers, service providers and user communities and addresses barriers currently opposing the socio-economic development of rural areas.
Fields of science
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencesinternetinternet of things
- social sciencessociologygovernancepublic services
- social scienceseconomics and businessbusiness and managemententrepreneurship
- natural sciencesbiological sciencesecologyecosystems
- natural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesatmospheric sciencesclimatologyclimatic changes
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IA - Innovation actionCoordinator
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Portugal
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Participants (29)
9252 Tromso
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28760 Tres Cantos Madrid
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28037 Madrid
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57001 Thermi Thessaloniki
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26006 LOGRONO
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26005 Logroño
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821 08 BRATISLAVA
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28040 Madrid
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8500-794 Portimao
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1783 Halden
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8514 Narvik
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901 87 Umea
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FI-94600 Kemi
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7540 Gussing
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7540 GUSSING
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1030 Wien
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10100 Torino
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12010 Cervasca (Cn)
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08009 Barcelona
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08242 MANRESA
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2795-089 Linda A Velha
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48007 Bilbao
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1000 Bruxelles / Brussel
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1000 BRUXELLES
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9500 466 Ponta Delgada
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1120 Wien
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4540278 CHAVE
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90014 Oulu
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8514 Narvik
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