Polirural created the  Newsletter 7.
It includes PoliRural latest results:
– Pilots recent developments (from Segóbriga, Central Greece, Flanders , Galilee);
– The participation of PoliRural in the “Rural Vision Week – Imagining the future of Europe’s Rural Areas” ;
– Explanation of the recent tool for Regional Foresight:

For additional information click on this LINK

The 𝗢𝗽𝗲𝗻 𝗦𝗽𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗜𝗡𝗦𝗣𝗜𝗥𝗘 𝗛𝗮𝗰𝗸𝗮𝘁𝗵𝗼𝗻 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟭 is a series of challenges that will be focused on developments and innovations in agriculture, the environment, transport, tourism, geospatial applications or remote sensing and GNSS, PoliRural H2020 Projectinvites you to take a part in this webinar.

During the months of April and May, an unique opportunity to try out new technologies and infrastructures will be offered, which will be open to all developers.

INSPIRE Hackathon opens up opportunities for cooperation in the development of various solutions with participants from all over the world, and at the same time offers everyone the enrichment of their own experience.

You can find more about the Hackathon and register in this LINK

You can also view the replay of the Kick-off webinar dedicated to the challenge introduction of the Open Spring INSPIRE Hackathon HERE

Polirural H2020 created a Semantic Explorer User´s Guide.

The main purpose of this guide, it’s to give practical insights about the use of Semantic Explorer, an open-source web app tool. This document contains an introductory part about the platform`s contents and the Text Mining technology applied and provides the reader with step-by-step instructions for the use of the tool.

For more information, you can download this LINK

Polirural has created a Compendium of Regional Evaluation Reports.

The purpose of this compendium is to give observation into the results of the evaluation of the policies of the 12 Polirural #pilots regions made by conducting desk review interviews and surveys with regional stakeholders and experts. This compendium can be used as an input into the Long Term Vision for Rural Areas.

Green Growth Platform together with their partner AgFutura Technologies chose the measure 124 “Investments in infrastructure for development of agriculture, forestry and water economy“ for analysis and evaluation.

You can read more about the results of the conducted survey for the Gevgelija-Strumica region and the evaluation reports of all pilots on the provided document on this LINK.

PoliruralH2020 project made an Evaluation Base Cluster Map of the 12 pilots.

The diagram consists of all 12 pilots who shared similar issues and preferences in the current policy estimation. Based on this map a task will start in the following months, focusing on research of new policy measures, which will be assigned to two or more pilot regions that are grouped by common ground.

The conclusions from this cross- border learning of the regional teams, can help by showing what was working, or what didn’t work before developing an optimal intervention for their rural area.

Take a look of the Evaluation Based Cluster Map on the following link

All partners came together in a dedicated session on designing Sustainable Innovation Framework, understanding Behaviour change, building Sustainable Collaborative Business Model Innovation and launching Sustainable Innovation Pilots.

Get the latest info and keep track of the progress done to rebalancing the agri- food value chain by following us and Ploutos Project!

For more information about the project visit the following Ploutos channels:

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The second webinar for the project “Ploutos- – Sustainable Innovation Pilot 9 in Serbia and N.Macedonia” was held on 18.02.2021 by Blagoja Mukanov, representative and consultant from “Green Growth Platform” (GGP). This meeting was held online through the Microsoft Teams platform.

At the start of the meeting, there was a short introduction of the participants, humanitarian organizations involved in the process of donating food and the managing partners for the project “Ploutos” represented by Blagoja Mukanov from GGP (N.Macedonia) and Maja Zikic and Nikola Terzin from Foodscalehub(Serbia).

The main aim of the meeting was presentation of the project “Ploutos” and the pilot activities in the Republic of N.Macedonia as part of the Sustainable Innovation Pilot 9 in Serbia and N.Macedonia.

The focus of the presentation was on the Pilot 9 objective, which is developing a platform that will engage users from the entire value chain and provide quality exchange of information on food donation opportunities. This platform will help reduce food waste and optimize donation ecosystem with food donors (eg. retail grocers, farmers, producers, distributors, and foodservice operators)  and the Green Development Platform as coordinator of the platform on one side, users of the donated food (eg. public kitchens, Red Cross, SOS Children’s Village and other humanitarian organizations) on the other side.

There was a short presentation of the platform FoodSHare, its functions and benefits. The participants had the opportunity to witness the easy and simple usage of the platform (usage by donors, users and volunteers). This way of donating will allow full transparency around food surplus and the communities it’s helping.  FoodSHare will offer a simple, flexible service with charity vetting and ongoing support. Charities will have the power to access food donations and support at no charge, either to redistribute in food parcels or cook on-site (depending on the type and quantity of surplus). FoodSHare provides a secure and convenient way for food businesses to connect with frontline charities and community groups to streamline surplus food donations.