- 1. NORWAY project update 2
- (Countries)
- PROBLEMS/ CHALLENGES: Ageing society, increase of lifestyle related illnesses, lack of service, infrastructure and access to ICT SOLUTIONS ...
- 2. PARTNER MEETING
- (Partner Meeting)
- ... that happened during all of the “Vital” years. Be prepared to (re)act, bring items, pictures (please send beforehand if you want them on screen), etc.! 17.30 ...
- 3. GERMANY
- (Countries)
- ... Airport“. If radio and TV find their way to Langenhagen, they send pictures of the Hanover Airport - or perhaps of the horseracing course, which is owned by an organization called "Hannoverscher ...
- 4. IRELAND
- (Countries)
- ... its peninsulas (such as the remote Beara Peninsula, Sheep's Head and Mizen Head peninsulas), popular beaches such as Inchydoney, Owenahincha and Barleycove, and picturesque ...
- 5. POLAND
- (Countries)
- ... District Municipality Bojanowo Municipality Krzemieniewo Municipality Lipno Municipality Osieczna Municipality Poniec Municipality ...
- 6. ROMANIA
- (Countries)
- ... Village – German rural architecture in a picturesc area Sibiu Rural Area – Life quality and tradition in the hearth of Romania If ...
- 7. BELGIUM
- (Countries)
- ... cycling and walking routes, picturesque landscapes and charming villages, attractions and top events to beguile the visitor. Enterprising region Sustainable family entrepreneurship ...
- 8. Branding rural areas: motives, measures and management
- (scientific articles)
- ... started with the main mission to build a consistent and positive picture of Zealand Flanders. Langenhagen is a municipality in the German state of Lower Saxony, and is part of the district of Hannover ...
- 9. Service provision in rural areas Concepts from Vital Rural Area
- (scientific articles)
- ... of creative recombination of services across ownership. Information and Communication Technology (ICT) represents additional challenges and opportunities for rural areas. The article specifies the advantages ...
- 10. Promoting and empowering small and medium sized enterprises in rural areas
- (scientific articles)
- ... economies (Tovey et al 2009). Recently, ICT and GPS technology moved in to activate tacit local knowledge (Parker 2006; Perkins 2007). Bosworth (2009) questions the possibility of achieving a collective ...
- 11. Digital Commerce -toolkit for SMEs (DK)
- (projects sme empowerment)
- ... for the project to be implemented? - The prerequisite is a good internet connection - There is as such no restriction in relation to the individual SME, it can be both ...
- 12. Leaner citizen service
- (Good Governance)
- ... starts from a shared feeling of unsatisfaction with the current situation and from the conviction that it can be done differently and better. The improvement team formulates a new way of working. ...
- 13. Virtual Office
- (Good Governance)
- ... population densities, shrinking and ageing population, combined with long distances and / or groups of less mobile people (elderly). The challenge is to improve the service provision by using ICT solutions. ...
- 14. tools
- (rpp-methodology)
- ... sensu stricto, but comprises case studies offering the reader access to our knowledge and experiences in the issues encountered in contemporary rural areas. We also described more general tools that ...
- 15. the rural power pack (more)
- (rpp)
- ... The tools derived from the project cases studies are described in the project formats and grouped in a section under the themes. The Rural Power Pack toolbox is not an instrument suitcase sensu stricto, ...
- 16. Broadband and digital services
- (Broadband and Digital Services)
- ... introduced and developed. Because lack of education and ICT competency is often a common issue, introduction of new digital public services and self-service solutions should be combined with training programmes ...
- 17. Ambassadors for Regional Branding
- (Profiling and Branding)
- ... with 3 or 4 companies with whom the province discussed the concept of ambassadors and who were willing to share their conviction with the other companies. The province also contacted and persuaded a wellknown ...
- 18. Video based service provision
- (Community Building)
- ... long distances and / or groups of less mobile people (elderly). The challenge is to improve the service provision by using ICT solutions. The advent of the internet has enabled virtual connections ...
- 19. Branding and marketing Finnøy Islands (N)
- (projects profiling and branding)
- ... stakeholders were involved? Major and the political level. The organisation of companies in Finnøy. The district centre in Norway The leader and regional development (business) in Rogaland ...
- 20. Strong governance in a strong region: reorganising the co-operation model (B)
- (projects good governance)
- ... The shared goal must be explicitly in line with or not contradictory with a higher policy initiative. Otherwise this will lead to too much interference and confusion. The key partners must explicitly ...