The joint strategy for smart village transition provides an analytical framework to assist smart village initiatives to support development of rural areas in Central Europe. It was developed based on capitalisation of previous projects' results, the exchanged experience, surveys and reports.

The presented transnational action plan represents the embodiment of the actions to be performed in the five pilot areas of More than a Village project, namely South Warmia in Poland, Alta Val Polcevera in Italy, Hajdú-Bihar in Hungary, Pomurje in Slovenia and Buzet in Croatia.

This tool brings together lessons from the pilots in Poland and Hungary to help rural areas support entrepreneurship, digitalisation and community resilience. It offers a step-by-step approach, practical templates and examples for local authorities, NGOs and small businesses working on youth entrepreneurship and the silver economy.

Based on the pilot in Italy, this tool shows how rural tourism can become smarter and more sustainable through participatory planning, digital solutions and better use of local spaces.

Built on the pilots in Croatia and Slovenia, this tool supports a smarter and more resilient agri-food sector through practical guidance, examples and ways to improve cooperation and reduce waste.

This report presents the final evaluation of five smart village pilots carried out across partner regions in Poland, Hungary, Italy, Slovenia, and Croatia: What did the pilots actually achieve, What did we learn from running them, and what happens next? The report closes with a transferability and replication potential to other regions of the Central Europe or even wider.

This presentation focuses on the pilot actions implemented within the More than a Village (MTAV) project under the Interreg Central Europe Programme. It showcases how the Smart Village concept was tested and applied in practice through concrete pilot activities carried out in participating regions. The presentation presents the objectives, implementation process and key results of the pilot actions, which addressed three thematic areas: business support, smart tourism, and agri-food innovation. It highlights how locally tailored solutions were co-created with stakeholders and tested in real-life rural contexts to respond to specific territorial needs and challenges.