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Project Duration:

36 months

Total Cost:

1 135 500 ECU 

EU - Contribution:

699 994 ECU

Project site:

http://viete.tokem.fi/demenet

Contact:

demenet@ict.tuwien.ac.at

Project Objectives

DEMETER. Distance education, multimedia teleservices and telework for farmers
The general objective of DEMETER is to enhance the quality of life for farmers living in isolated, rural areas in Austria (various regions in Lower and Upper Austria), Finland (Lapland, North Carelia), Spain (Balearic Islands), United Kingdom (Scotland). Norway (Trondheim) is participating in course development only.
DEMETER intends to build a practicable survival strategy applicable to other similar regions in Europe as well, using telematics applications as tool to implement better education, teleservices and telework.
In many European countries traditional farming is becoming more and more difficult due to drastically changing economy. Farmers in all the regions have similar structural problems, like having difficulties to get individual education, information and consulting, or to market and sell their products and services. We strongly believe in better chances for people in isolated regions through modern technology, especially telematics application, which open the door to more people in the own region, the country and the world abroad.

So with the European telematics project DEMETER we especially will:
  • guarantee easy access to educational programmes and consulting
  • implement communication tools to enable people to help each other indifferent regions of Europe
  • provide information systems for marketing products and services of the regions
  • establish new jobs using telematics solutions

To reach these goals we:
  • use the existing knowledge of the farmers in their regions, involve them in every stage of our project and connect them on an international level to
  • establish an international knowledge exchange
  • provide farming specific courses and expert consulting services, according to the farmers' needs
  • use the experiences of the farmers living in these regions with already existing small pilot projects (small educational programmes, marketing systems and small scale tourism facilities), including these results to our project
  • use the organisational and technical infrastructure in these regions

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