IRL, is lead partner in DELSA – Digital Empowerment for Low Skilled Adults. The consortium have developed modules for the online platform.
These modules were discussed at the Partner meeting that took place in Budapest in October. They are being finalised at present with testing and validating of the modules commencing early in the new year.
More information about the project is available on www.digitaldelsa.eu
RUBIZMO partners met in Brussels on the 22nd and 23rd of October for its Mid-Term Progress Meeting. The meeting reviewed the work to date and the next steps.
The first findings of the project were shared at a conference on the 24th October. Over 100 European Stakeholders, from policy makers to representatives of trade associations and cooperatives, working hard to make rural development a reality across Europe attended the event which took place at the European Economic and Social Committee in Brussels.
As part of the conference an Awards ceremony took place for the most inspiring examples of rural business success among the business cases selected for the project. Awards were presented to one business in each of the three categories of Food, Bio-based value chain and ecosystem services. Dunhill Ecopark in Co. Waterford was nominated in the ecosystem services and came a very close second in the ecosystem services category.
More information about the conference, copies of speakers presentations and videos as well as details of the award winners are available on https://rubizmo.eu/news/view/3c7e7e32-7ef3-4497-8f91-a4a76f77f266
You can follow the project on twitter @RUBIZMO and website https://rubizmo.eu/
IRL News on events and projects during winter 2019
Irish Rural Link held its annual Information Day on Rural Services in Buswells Hotel, Dublin on the 14th November. A number of organisations including Meals on Wheels from Castlebar and Longford, Local Link, Louth Meath Fingal Local Link/Flexibus, Moynalty Mens Shed, Longford Women’s Link, African Caribbean Diaspora Centre, Community Wetlands Forum and National Rural Network. Projects IRL are involved – Getting Citizens Online, IT Skills for Farming, Local Public Banking, The Next Chapter and European projects – Rubizmo, DELSA and Sustain it.
Minister for Rural and Community Development, Michael Ring, TD addressed attendees and spoke with all the groups who were there. Around 50 TD’s and Senators dropped into the event throughout the day.
