Project description
Providing access to digital services throughout rural Europe
The EU-funded dRural project aims to help grow the economy, create jobs, foster local businesses and improve quality of life in European rural areas. 31 partners from nine countries, ranging from local healthcare organisations, municipalities and professionals, have joined together co-develop and roll out a digital marketplace of services for people living in rural communities. To ensure implementation, this will be supported by actions to improve internet broadband coverage in the rural areas. This will initially be implemented in selected areas throughout Europe, with the ultimate goal of providing essential services to rural areas throughout the EU. To achieve this, the project will launch an open call for other rural communities willing to implement the proposed digital marketplace of services.
Objective
dRural overall goal it to co-develop and implement a digital solution that delivers multiple services to rural citizens while creating opportunities economic growth and quality of life improvements. Then, to ensure the successful exploitation and sustainability after the project’s lifetime and its replication in other European territories.
As such, our aspiration is to become the service marketplace of reference for European rural areas.
dRural will build a service network for rural areas and communities based on four rural regions of Europe, namely: Extremadura (ES), Jämtland Härjedalen (SE), Dubrovnik-Neretva County (HR) and Region Gelderland Midden (NL). Each of these settings are called regional demonstrators.
The solution building will follow agile methodologies and ensure end-users co-creation and validation in each regional demonstrator. Besides, dRural will be developed with a 'by-design' approach to ethics, privacy, and data protection. An internet coverage optimization in the demonstrators will be done to guarantee a smooth deployment. Then, the solution will be set up in each region, guaranteeing its personalization and customization to the regional needs, and integrating with the local service providers. In parallel, an ecosystem of relevant players surrounding the dRural solution will be created in each region by identifying the key stakeholders, current problems and designing a value proposition for each of them. The ecosystem building exercise will be supported by an open call in each demonstrator leveraging financial support to third parties to incentivize the solution take up and expand the ecosystem of players involved. This will offer opportunities for entrepreneurs by promoting new market openings allowing also smaller and newer players to capture value. An evaluation of usage and impacts will be performed to ensure on-going support in the region after the project completionend.
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30100 Murcia
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Participants (34)
1060 Bruxelles / Brussel
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26900 Lodi
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501 15 Boras
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7522 NB Enschede
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46980 PATERNA VALENCIA
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30100 Murcia
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41018 Sevilla
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00044 Frascati
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D02 XE80 LOWER DUBLIN
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EC1V 2NX London
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21000 Novi Sad
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21000 Novi Sad
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46520 Sagunto
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06800 MERIDA
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06200 Almendralejo
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06004 Badajoz
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10003 Caceres
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6230 Los Santos De Maimona
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831 27 Ostersund
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831 40 Ostersund
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835 80 Krokom
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831 25 OSTERSUND
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20350 Metkovic
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51000 Rijeka
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10000 Zagreb
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31000 Osijek
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20000 Dubrovnik
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20350 Metkovic
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6681 BJ Bemmel
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6681 AR Bemmel
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6534 AT Nijmegen
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1000 Bruxelles / Brussel
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8000 Aarhus C
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6815AD ARNHEM
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