By decades, slow introduction of innovations into the agricultural production was generally adopted circumstance to cope with. For smaller rural communities this seems particularly valid, due to its complex social environment and working habits, often limited by lack of proper infrastructure, communication, education and marketing support.
Formal scientific system seems to be too rigid framework to provide long-lasting response to such complex and diverse local communities needs.
Lack of professional results applied in practice is evident. Scientific work is often burdened with complicated methodologies and procedures.
We think that rural environment, with its unique natural, cultural and historical footprint gives us great chance for high quality living and professional engagement of whole new generation of people, motivated to take part in social and technological transformation process, with purpose to make such communities more open to innovation and knowledge inflow.
In modern world the technological environment is becoming highly diversified – from biology and genetics to robotics and AI, opening great chances to development but also searching for new ways of scientific collaboration and mutual support.
Faced with rigid social environment, we are looking for opportunity trough organization of independent initiatives composed of highly motivated and educated individuals.
We want to create research environment, unladed by traditional approaches and hierarchies.
Smart Village will ensure cohabitation space for researchers working on wide spectrum of exiting new concepts, in order to bring it to practice and make it useful.
Big expectations are in fields such are: energy efficiency and alternative energy sources, precision agriculture, remote sensing, e-commerce, smart government etc. Most of these practices are based on ICT: data mining, artificial intelligence, robotics, internet of things and other but not exclusively. Some practices are simply commonly unknown, misunderstood or improperly adopted, requiring more space to be tested and presented. This may refer to practices as are regenerative agriculture, organic growing, green architecture, permaculture etc.
