CONFERENCE TOPICS SMART VILLAGES
The content of the Conference will be directed mainly (not exclusively) to the following topics:

• Teleworking and a question whether it is possible to substitute face-to-face contacts by on-line activities and thus to operate a highly qualified work from rural homes
• Coverage of the rural space with a speed internet, cell phone signal and other communication media and utilization of these media in the rural life and entrepreneurship
• Intelligent systems of technical infrastructure (transport, energy supply, water management etc.)
• Using smart systems for the development of rural forms of tourism
• Online purchase and on-line services in the rural space - an alternative way of the coverage of the population demands
• Any other smart system enabling to connect the rural way of life with an urban level of services and jobs

ADDITIONAL CONFERENCE TOPICS

• Common Agricultural Policy 2020-2025 and its impact on sustainable European agriculture
• Community Lead Local Development and its impact on rural development
• Cultural tourism and it's potential for the post-productive European countryside
• Any other topical problem concerning contemporary European countryside

SPECIAL COVID-19 SESSION

• Is a city or countryside more sensitive to such events?
• How will the restriction of population movement on seasonal agricultural work be reflected?
• How will the restriction of population movement on rural tourism be reflected, will domestic tourism grow at the expense of foreign ones?
• The relationship between companies and people, especially rural seniors, to work from home will change?
• Will the epidemic experience become a major impetus for the further development of online services that could partially offset the disappearing social infrastructure of rural settlements?
• Smart technologies in the fight with Covid-19 (monitoring the spread of disease through ICT)
• eventually other