Imagine a world where women in the countryside have the same tools and support as big city entrepreneurs to start green businesses. This project creates a support system and a set of practical tools to help them launch eco-friendly farms and rural services. It's like building a professional bridge between a great green idea and the actual policy changes needed to make it profitable.
Women in rural agriculture face systemic barriers and a lack of tailored support tools, preventing them from leading the transition to green, resilient farming and rural businesses.
A set of benchmarking templates for EU/national policies and a toolkit of inclusive policy formulation tools for rural development.
If you are a software provider dealing with low adoption of digital tools among female farmers — this project developed 9 living labs that identify specific support needs. This allows you to tailor your smart-agri skills tools to a previously underserved market segment.
If you are a consultancy dealing with a lack of diverse local business models — this project developed a toolkit for socio-ecological innovations like eco-tourism. You can use these benchmarks to help rural clients build more resilient, women-led tourism ventures.
If you are a government agency dealing with outdated rural policies — this project developed benchmarking templates and inclusive policy tools. These help you create regulations that actually support women-led agricultural transitions.
Based on available project data, no pricing or cost information is provided for the tools and templates developed.
The project uses 9 living labs across 9 EU countries to test and co-create tools, suggesting a design intended for cross-border scaling within the EU rural economy.
Based on available project data, there is no mention of specific patents or licensing terms; the project focuses on co-creating tools and templates for policymakers and innovators.
The project specifically develops tools to support policymakers in formulating inclusive policies and provides benchmarking templates to navigate complex EU and national regulations.
The project runs from 2023-01-01 to 2025-12-31, with deliverables including webinars and toolkits currently being developed.
The consortium is heavily weighted toward research and academic expertise, with 9 universities and 3 research organizations. However, it maintains a strong practical link to the market through 14 'other' entities and 9 SMEs, ensuring that the 27 total partners can bridge the gap between academic theory and rural field application.
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