Blogs / 10 January 2019
Here at Highclere Consulting we consider ourselves to be seasoned and experienced ‘rural networkers’. In addition to our day-to-day intuitive grassroots networking, we’ve worked a lot with formal policy networks. These are the networks which are created or constructed by public authorities to engage people, businesses and special interest groups…
Blogs / 10 January 2019
The disruptive power of technology 2018 has been a year when the disruptive potential of upcoming digital technologies and automation was on everybody’s lips. We are being told that 37% of the EU population does not have basic digitization skills and is therefore in need of re-educating itself – not…
Blogs / 9 January 2019
Rural areas across Europe are undergoing rapid change. On the one hand, persistent challenges, such as poor infrastructure, low quality rural services and the outmigration of young people, continue to put many rural communities under pressure and are rapidly accelerating their decline. On the other hand, there are also new…