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Croatia's bootcamp equips rural women with tech skills to bridge innovation and sustainability gaps
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09/12/2024
In this episode of Sci-Tech, we visit a transformative bootcamp near Zagreb, Croatia, where women from rural areas across Europe are learning how technology can revolutionise their businesses and communities.
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Hello, and welcome to this edition of SciTech, coming to you from the Croatian countryside,
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not far from Zagreb. We're here to meet a group of women who are aspiring to be the
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next big thing in rural innovation.
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Twenty women from across the EU and beyond are joining together for a week-long bootcamp.
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Hi, I'm Auguste from Lithuania.
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Hi, I'm Rika from Finland.
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And I'm Zora from Iceland.
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Students are diving deep into how they can take a lead in the tech revolution, learning
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from expert mentors. The Women's Academy for Rural Innovation, organised by Huawei, aims
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to help close gender and urban-rural divides faced by women outside the big cities.
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Many of them are business owners. They have a farm. They have an agritourism hotel accommodation.
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They have their own small and medium-sized enterprises. They are selling their local
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products online to the world. But they need the help of technology to make their products
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and to make their businesses more sustainable and to make also their products further rich.
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Rural investments, including in digital technologies, are seen as crucial to addressing the big
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issues of today, like climate change and food waste.
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We talked about agriculture and one participant talked about crops and how can you make crops
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sustainable with all climate change. So having the monitoring techniques. The other element
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is with more data centres being developed, how can we ensure that the rural areas are
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being part of this discussion?
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Bringing technology to rural communities is not always easy, with education from women
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like these playing a key role in unlocking its potential.
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My own experience is that there is some resistance in rural areas if we are talking about technological
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innovations. I know, for example, in agriculture they are quite advanced, but there are still
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things to go on.
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Thora, a physiotherapist, sees a big role for tech in driving down health inequalities.
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She is developing an online treatment platform to make it easier for patients in rural Iceland
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to access services.
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Because I'm not from the tech side, I sometimes believe that I cannot do the tech part, but
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after seeing all these great women I feel like, hey, I can do it, or at least now I
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know who to talk to and how to start it with the tech solution, because I have the healthcare
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solution but I need help from different sides.
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They learn from each other, but at the same time all the coaches, speakers we bring here,
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or even the policy officers will help them to understand better to get the fundings for
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the rural projects. I hope they can bring all that back to the community.
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It's the final day and the students are preparing to pitch on stage. Augusta's team have come
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up with Thora, a personalized AI assistant to help grow rural companies.
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It informs, teaches, and also connects people. For example, you are in agriculture and you
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want to make it bigger as a business, so how to start the business, what processes you
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have to go through, who to connect, you know, how to find people.
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This is not only about lifting people, this is also about lifting economy.
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I think we were amazing, weren't we? I mean, we were really good, actually, the whole team.
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After all the learning, the academy is wrapping up with a goodbye gala and award ceremony.
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Thora from Iceland is named Rural Connectivity Champion.
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I feel very happy. I feel very surprised and I don't know exactly what else it is, but
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I just feel like everything was amazing.
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And now time for the top award of Europe's Rural Leader.
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The winner of the 2024 Women's Academy for Rural Innovation is Augusta from Lithuania.
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I still have no idea how, why, but I also feel very happy to be appreciated, noticed
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for this change in these few days, actually.
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