TRANSFORM

The TransForm@ project is aimed at boosting innovation and entrepreneurship in rural areas by enhancing people's digital and e-business related skills... More than 91% of the territory of the EU is "rural", and about 56% of the EU's population lives there. But a new demographic change is taking place in Europe, defined as "counter-urbanization": many people, attracted by environmental and life quality, flow out of urban areas into rural areas, made more accessible by new transport and ICT infrastructures... E-commerce opens the opportunity for very new and original businesses and brings services and products to places where they were not available. In the digital era, rural regions can strongly increase their competitiveness, thus avoiding their depopulation and transforming themselves in new life and job opportunities.