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Smart Villages: Examples, Challenges, and Opportunities

Explore practical examples, messages, and strategies for implementing smart village initiatives, including jobs, basic services, digitalization, social innovation, and cooperation.

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Smart Villages: Examples, Challenges, and Opportunities

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  1. Smart Villages in practice Examples and messages from the ENRD Thematic Group Enrique Nieto ENRD Contact Point #SmartVillages

  2. Smart Villages Jobs Basic services Digital Social Challenges Opportunities Villages Cooperation and partnerships People Future vision

  3. Smart Villages Vision – our village/territory of the future Socio-Economicdevelopment Basic services Innovation • Training and education • Renewable energy • Health and care • Mobility • Broadband • Low carbon economy (including circular economy) • Digital economy • Urban-rural links • Local Asset based specialisation Social innovation Digital innovation Howtosustainit

  4. Smart Villages Thereis no onemodelfor Smart Villages Itis a process, allvillages can be Smart

  5. Local Fibre Networks Sweden Swedish Local Fibre Alliance supports thousands of projects in rural areas – fibre to the farm. Mobilise businesses, farmers, citizens – aggregate demand.. Business plan. Attract public + private finance + community time 93% owned by municipality. Around 50% fibre access. Open networks Negotiate with alternative providers Increased competition, Lower prices, greater access

  6. CommunityBroadband – Molenwaard (Netherlands)

  7. Digital Villages (Germany) Acting at all levels of the local digital ecosystem ORGANISATIONAL ECOSYSTEM One ICT Service SOCIETY Residents Local Business Clubs & Assoc. Municipality Science Smart Village Living Lab DOMAIN SPECIFIC ICT SERVICES ICT Partner & Network Local Supply Communication Mobility Government Work & Education Med & Care Data Manage-ment Data Intelligence Connectingdomainspecificservices Business Model Event-orientedArchitecture Basic Plattform Services TECHNICAL PLATFORM Digitalization Roadmap 5G INFRASTRUCTURE

  8. CommunityHydroScheme – Braemar (Scotland)

  9. BioenergyVillage Germany

  10. Alston Moor – The UK’s First Social Enterprise Town Rural parish in Cumbria (pop. 2,100), nearest town-40min, limited public transport, reduction in services…. 24 social enterprises: digital cooperative, retail, catering, tourism, social care, community transport, education, social care, health….. 50 jobs supported £2.2m turnover 200 volunteers

  11. Imagining and buildingfuture Jobs Youth Housing Health Education Mobility Connectivity Culture And many more

  12. CLLD and Smart Villages RD supportsthecreation of state of the art communityownedbroadband RD supportstherollingout of a mobility app developedby a social enterprisetoother rural areas in France RD supports a social enterpriseproviding a training itinerarytosupport rural SMEs in their digital transformation CLLD cooperationmeasureisusedtobuild a regional networkofco-workingspacesaccrossanentireregion

  13. Arctic Smart Rural Community (Lapland, Finland) One of the most sparsely populated areas; Arctic Smartness brand = bottom up approach to smart specialization; Identify capital outflow from villages on energy and food; Smart strategies for local production and adding value; Integrated action on education, entrepreneurship, investment in food and energy hubs, procurement, R+D; Strong stakeholder involvement from village + local (LEADER) to regional levels Case Kierinki: 116 inhabitants. ProAgria/Luke

  14. …and many more local projects easy-to-access mobile medical service Smart Village of the Future - Project Ruhtinansalmi Broadband Fibre in Östra Bräcke Local Computer Courses for young and old An on-demand rural bus service in rural Wales On-line Support for Promotion of Local Businesses Innovative rural learning facilitiestackle youth depopulation Geoparks bringing together local business through “quality pacts” Socially Responsible Wine Tourism Quality of Life through Proximity

  15. CurrentEuropeantools A widerange of existing EU and nationalframeworks: EAFRD (LEADER, Cooperation, Basic Services ESIF (ERDF, ESF, EMFF – Smart Specialisation) Strategies for digitization + renewableenergy… Horizon, Financial Instruments, INTERREG…. Growinginterest - butoftennotcalled Smart Villages Howto use toempower/enable local communities?

  16. Enabling a transition Flexible tools to enable rural communities to make the transition

  17. SUPPORT FOR SMART VILLAGE INITIATIVES SUSTAINABILITY –SCALE UP Cooperation Marketing Small scaleinvestments Animation Community Contribution Pilots Researchcontracts Technical/ feasibilitystudies Training Howtoensurethat LEADER can mobilisethesetoolseffectivelyfor local communities? Needsaudits IDEA

  18. Somekeymessagesfromthe Thematic Group • Rural policy should mobilise assets and empower communities in order to enhance the social, economic and environmental well-being of rural areas” (Edinburgh Policy Statement OECD April 2018) • Smart Village Strategies are not about doing for or to - but with and by local people • Smart Village strategies are not there to support isolated initiatives –nor to produce an extra layer of paper plans - but to enable communities to progress along an agreed path for change.

  19. Next steps ENRD Thematic Group on Smart Villages • Orientationsforusingallpolicytoolsavailabletohelp Smart Villages to emerge – now and in future. Meetings and briefs on: • Howtodevelop Smart Villagestrategies • Howto use keypolicyinstruments (avoidingduplication) • Howto combine policyinstruments more effectively, • Multilevel digital strategies • PlatformforlinkinginitiativesaccrossEurope

  20. Sourcesofinformation Rural Review on Smart Villages Project Brochure on Digital and Social innovation Smart Villages Portal subscribe@enrd.eu.

  21. Sourcesofinformation Smart Villages Video https://youtu.be/ckB71hb0kx0

  22. Thankyouverymuch!

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