The latest meeting of the ENRD Thematic Group (TG) on Smart Villages – 6 June 2019 in Lormes, France – offered the opportunity to explore how this village in the Burgundy region used a participative process to co-design a ‘village of the future’.

Throughout the on-site visit, participants witnessed the different aspects of the digital ecosystem created in the area within the context of the French approach to digitalising rural areas. They further exchanged and learnt from similar initiatives and plans in other Member States such as the Spanish and German examples, and the Irish initiative in Donegal. The meeting was organised back to back with the ERUDITE final conference.

You can further explore digitalisation case studies and briefings on the ENRD Smart Villages Portal.