DESIRA H2020

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 818194. The overarching goal of DESIRA is to improve the capacity of society and of political bodies to respond to the challenges that digitisation generates in rural areas, agriculture and forestry in the next ten years. To achieve this goal, we want to build a knowledge and methodological base that increases the capacity of a wide range of actors to assess past, current and future socio-economic impacts - included gender differences - of ICT's related innovation, to embody Responsible Research and Innovation into researchers’, developers’, users’ practices and policies, and finally offer mechanisms and tools that will support decision-making to challenges and opportunities related to digitalisation. DESIRA will pursue its objectives by mobilising a network of Rural businesses and services, Public Authorities, Citizen groups, Digital technology operators, Farmers, Media and Academics, organised into 20 Living Labs and one EU-level Rural Digitisation Forum (RDF).