GRANULAR

Date: 1. 10. 2022 – 30. 9. 2026

Project description

The GRANULAR project responds to demographic, climatic, economic and social changes in rural areas of Europe. It highlights the fact that traditional definitions of rural areas based on density or population size fail to adequately capture their diversity and relationships with urban areas.

The project uses interdisciplinary research and collaboration between various actors. New data will be generated through remote sensing, crowdsourcing, mobile device data, and web data mining.

This data will be combined with existing statistical and institutional sources to produce indicators that will allow assessing the resilience, living conditions, quality of life and attractiveness of rural areas.

This includes the creation of decision-support tools, including a rural compass, and a platform for sharing datasets and visualizations.

Financing

Horizon Europe, grant no. 101061068. The project also reports support from British participants from UKRI.

Links

  • Granular – Leaflet (eng)

  • Granular – Poster (eng)

  • Granular – Press KIT (eng)

  • Newsletters #1 to #7

  • Housing prices and rural attractiveness: case study from Czechia

  • News

Members of KIT PEF ČZU participate in the RURBANIVE project: new online courses are available to the public

8. 10. 2026

Research Projects

Members of the Department of Information Technology (KIT) of the Faculty of Food and Agriculture of the Czech University of Life Sciences are participating in the international Horizon Europe RURBANIVE project, which supports innovation and strengthening links between rural and urban areas. One of its practical outputs is new free online courses that combine food industry expertise with digital education.

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KIT representatives attended the final conference of the CODECS project in Brussels

30. 9. 2026

Research Projects Announcements

The final conference of the European project CODECS, focused on the digitalization of agriculture and its economic, environmental and social impacts, took place in Brussels on 15–16 September 2026. The conference was held at the Fondation Universitaire and was attended by more than 120 representatives of European institutions, research organizations, agricultural advisors, technology companies and individual Living Labs.

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