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Edina Ocsko
Sep 5, 202414 min read
Can the EU's Long Term Vision and the Rural Pact become a reality in the post-2027 Rural Development Policy?
Food for thought in response to the questions set by the LTVRA Report No more business as usual [1] Rural areas are confronted with...
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Edina Ocsko
Aug 23, 20204 min read
Eskola: The village that doesn’t take ‘no’ for an answer
The end of summer is here, a new school year is starting and Covid-19 is not yet over. Schools might need to switch to online teaching...
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Edina Ocsko
Apr 22, 20207 min read
It's high time to be smart
Thinking about the “bright adaptation” of what we have Our world has turned upside down during these past weeks due to the Coronavirus....
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Edina Ocsko
Apr 3, 20196 min read
How to make 'smart villages' happen?
In this blog article we argue that smart villages offer a new "policy window of opportunity" to support rural areas and communities in an...
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Edina Ocsko
Mar 6, 20182 min read
Villages need to have a say in what smart villages are
‘Living next door to Alice’ first hit the charts in 1977 and then in 1995 in a parody version. The latter version of the song includes a...
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Edina Ocsko
Mar 6, 20182 min read
We need a definition that allows all villages to be(come) smart
Any village can become ‘smart’. By defining the exact nature of ‘smartness’ (e.g. linked to a certain level of digital, economic or...
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