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Are you planning broadband rollout in your community? Check the free online course on business models for funding and financing broadband infrastructure and decide which model is best for you. One of the main barriers in developing superfast broadband infrastructure...

One of the main barriers in developing superfast broadband infrastructure in less developed and rural areas is the lack of private investment. Local and regional authorities need adequate knowledge on different funding and financing options as well as effective...

The roll-out of high-speed broadband networks requires substantial investments. Civil engineering works, such as the digging-up of roads to lay down high-speed broadband, account for up to 80% of the cost of deploying high-speed networks. Limiting these works or...

The various broadband technologies and deployment methods provide great opportunities for rolling out fast and high quality broadband infrastructure. Diverse local needs occurring form geography and population structure can be met. With the optical fibre technology,...

The Hüttener Berge office uses digital solutions for tele-meetings during the current Corona crisis to reduce personal contacts to a minimum and, by this, protect citizens and administration. Since, as a protective measure to contain the pandemic, assemblies are...

Free training course Creating a Digital Innovation Culture will help you identify and assess digital skills, train staff & create sustainable digital innovation culture. A digital innovation culture asks for new ways of thinking in which there is room for digital...

This online course will improve digital skills of people working for public authorities. You will learn about the challenges public authorities face before and during the digital transformation, and how to address them. The digital transformation of public...

Shortage of digital skills and awareness are some of the main barriers for enterprises preventing them from the access and effective use of advanced digital technologies. Join the free training course Digital skills for enterprises and increase your digital...

Limited access and use of digital technologies in rural areas are accompanied by a lack of digital skills of different social groups (e.g. elderly people) and in businesses. The basic digital skills and competences help individuals to interact online and consume...

“Uptake of internet and internet services" means the regular use of internet and e-services by people, enterprises and administration. This indicator is used to estimate how and if the use of internet has become a tool of everyday life. In this context, the main...

Fixed and mobile digital hubs can support digital engagement and innovation. Digital hubs exist across a range of settings i.e. as co-working or networking spaces; as innovation spaces in specific economic development contexts; as spaces for emergent technology...

Als samenleving zitten we midden in de vierde industriële revolutie. De digitalisering heeft daarbinnen een belangrijke positie. We willen u als ondernemer helpen groeien in de digitale mogelijkheden. Daarom organiseren we op 11 maart 2020 in samenwerking met KVK de...

The working world of the future is digital. Especially rural regions can profit from the advancing digitization. As regional focal points for small and medium-sized businesses in all sectors on digitisation issues, digital hubs can assist in this development. In the...

Across rural Europe, broadband infrastructure, digital services and skill development are limited, creating spatial digital divides. To reduce the divide, CORA partners work with local authorities and policymakers to identify training opportunities, develop tools and...

A team of leading economic development specialists have produced comprehensive new guidelines exposing the stark digital divide between urban and rural areas, in a bid to bridge the gap and encourage local authorities and business leaders to take action. The “Be Bold....

Blockchain expert Robert Schwertner, also known as 'Cryptorobby', discussed with CORA stakeholders and interested entrepreneurs in Winschoten how the Blockchain technology can contribute to the safety and faster digitization of rural areas. This meetup was organized...

14 new neighbourhoods and villages on Djursland (the two municipalities Norddjurs and Syddjurs) and the small island Anholt will get support from the Danish National Broadband Pool to roll out high speed broadband. The Broadband Pool Energy Agency has just published...

What did you get for Christmas? Some kids in the rural area of Vejle municipality, made a 3D printed gift for their sibling – or for themselves 🙂 With new knowledge of 3D design and 3D printers, acquired via an open workshop, focused on digital learning, they managed...

Smidstrup-Skærup school and the libraries in Vejle are collaborating to promote and inspire digital learning. In order to create better conditions for learning activities and bring new technology into play – they agreed to buy a sparkling new lasercutter and arrange a...

The Digital infrastructure has become as important to us as electricity and water supply. How can we visualize this to the citizens and stress the importance of digital infrastructure in rural areas? We simply use a bus to get out and meet the citizens! The CORA...

A new digital hub is in the making! In a collaborative effort, the local School in Smidstrup-Skærup and Vejle Library arranged a digital skills workshop at the school’s premises. The event, open for all kids and parents, promoted the new local digital hub and...