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Become a rural gamechanger
The DRural will inject new chances for the development of European rural areas and communities. The project aims to co-develop and roll up a digital marketplace of services for people living in those areas, while creating jobs and opportunities for economic growth and quality of life improvement. DRural is now looking for creative service provider in the field of health and social care, tourism, local food systems, business development, Mobility and e-governnment. If you want to get from €5.000 up to €50.000 funding and enlarge your market, deadline is 15 January 2023.
dRural overall goal is to co-develop and implement a digital solution based on the exploitation of data from existing service platforms that deliver multiple innovative services to rural citizens while creating opportunities for economic growth and quality of life improvements.
As such, the project aspires to become the service marketplace of reference for European rural areas.
dRural service marketplace will be tested in four pilots in European rural regions:
- Extremadura (Spain)
- Jämtland Härjedalen (Sweden)
- Dubrovnik-Neretva County (Croatia)
- Region Gelderland Midden (The Netherlands)
The calls for innovative services will focus on two types of services. Both will be offered through the marketplace.
Simple Services: provided by small businesses and sole entrepreneurs, suppliers of services on the dRural marketplace. They will receive a 5.000€ grant.
Benefits for applicants in simple services
- 5.000€ grant to set up and promote your service in the regional marketplace of your choice.
- Digitalizing your service and reaching a bigger pool of potential customers.
- Removing the physical barriers of time and place to allowing transactions to happen securely online and increase your turnover.
- Contributing to service provision in rural areas, which will ultimately improve the quality of life of citizens by making the services more easily available to them.
For Simple Services, apply here.
Complex Services: building new services through the Core Meta Platform by integrating external data platforms (and thus expected from organizations with more resources to build them). They will receive a 50,000€ grant.
Benefits for applicants in complex services
- 50.000€ grant to set up your service in the regional marketplace of your choice, and to exploit the potential of cross-sectoral service platforms for improving the quality of life in rural areas.
- Testing your innovative service in real-life conditions in one of the regions.
- Gaining access to a bigger pool of potential customers.
- Removing the physical barriers of time and place to allow transactions to happen securely online and increase your turnover.
- Contributing to service provision in rural areas, which will ultimately improve the quality of life of citizens by making the services more easily available
For Complex Services, apply here.
Please, read all the information carefully and apply until January 15th at 17.00 CET.
All the information and details can be found on the dedicated page of the dRural website.
