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  Open Digital Smart Village Exchange Platform

  Type of output:Tool

  The DEP - Digital Exchange Platform is a virtual place of sharing where users not only can discover the achieved results and find all products and tools created within the project SmartVillages.

  They can also compare themselves in the context of application of the concept of smartness in the different fields of life of an Alpine community by assessing the level of smartness of their own community, uploading or seeking good practices to be emulated and communicating with the Regional Stakeholders Groups of other Alpine areas. The DEP has the following objectives: - Enabling transnational knowledge sharing of the overall project findings between partners and wider public - Aiming for collective intelligence and so delivering the project results under open conditions - Being interoperable with existing platforms, using as much shared components as possible, but independent to avoid increasing complexity Have a look at the good practices we acquired from multiple villages in Alpine region or asses the smartness of your village. The Video Tutorial guides the visitor to the discovery of all the contents and documents that are inside it: https://youtu.be/Us-xVtEKlGY
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  Smart Villages Digital Toolbox

  Type of output:Tool

  Smart Villages Digital Toolbox is a digital tool that helps resolving local challenges by empowering communities in development and decision processes. The tool can be used by either individuals, community leaders or other local authorities.

  The Toolbox shows existing good practices in the relevant area and suggests innovative methods that help effectively address the challenges individuals or communities want to address. It works as a guide to lead you through participatory process, helps in establishing group of relevant stakeholders and shows examples of existing good practices from all across Europe. Follow four basic steps and compose your own, personalised roadmap equipped with methods and existing examples that will help your community to effectively address local challenges. What does it offer? It helps you define what your community needs in terms of smart transition. It is a guide, which will lead you trough the participation process and will help you establish relevant stakeholder group and show you how other have resolved similar challenges. It is a collection of methods and techniques for the development of project ideas that builds on the local context and collaboration of the community. The Toolbox video tutorial guides the visitor to the discovery the Digital Toolbox of the SMARTVillages project: https://youtu.be/mG478_9CUGE
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  SmartVillages Policy Recommendations

  Type of output:Strategy

  The Policy Recommendations coming out of SMARTVillages project are thus a major contribution to the implementation of EUSALP. They are available in EN, FR and IT.

  The draft recommendations were elaborated in autumn 2020 by the project consortium. Basis was a survey carried out amongst the 13 partners of the project coming from all Alpine countries. The draft recommendations were presented and discussed at the International Smart Villages policy conference of 10th November 2020 with 150 participants from all over Europe. The draft recommendations have been amended after the discussion at the International Smart Villages policy conference. They will flow into the policy cycle of the Macroregional strategy for the Alpine region EUSALP and will be made available to policy makers in the Alpine Area and outside of it like the other Macroregional strategies, the EU Commission, Managing authorities and so on. The Smart-villages-approach is important for villages in mountain and rural areas to become more attractive and vibrant.  The Smart-villages-approach helps those villages to use the potentials offered by digitalization and to bridge the natural handicaps of distances. With the Smart-villages-approach, the communities can contribute to the European Green Deal and master their smart transformation. And last but not least, the Covid-19-crises has shown that Smart villages are much more resilient to such crisis. The Smart-Village-approach is an integrative approach using the potentials offered by digitalization and developing new solutions through participatory processes, thus relying on open and social innovation. This basic understanding of the Smart-Village-approach leads to the following policy recommendations document. These policy recommendations address all institutional levels ranging from EU level, through macroregional level to national, regional and local level. Where appropriate, the respective level is directly addressed and good examples are given.
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  Compendium of the SmartVillages project

  Type of output:Strategy

  After three years of project implementation, the Partnership of the SMARTVillages project is proud to present to you the main results of the SmartVillages project.

  The Covid 19 crisis has been both a risk and an opportunity for the project and its goals. However, all the project goals set have been achieved and we have experienced extremely high momentum for our concept during the current health crisis. We have seen that “smart villages” have been performing quite well due to better communication, more agility and stronger resilience thanks to the utilisation of digital technologies, participative methods, and new organisational approaches.
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