Good Practice - Project
Smart village Remmesweiler
Developing a digital platform and a setting up a meeting place to ensure the local supply and socialising needs of the village of Remmesweiler.
General information
RDP Priority
- P6. Social inclusion and local development
RDP Focus Area
- 6B: Local development
RDP Measure
- M19: LEADER/CLLD
Summary
Since the start of 2015, the village of Remmesweiler in Saarland south western Germany and its 900 inhabitants no longer had any shops or places to meet. These were major challenges, especially for the village’s elderly and less mobile residents.
The project started in 2018 with the development of an online platform, followed by the establishment of a distribution centre as the second step of the project, which was financed by the LEADER programme. Through the online platform it is now possible to order local products at any time.
If extra help is required by people who do not have digital skills to place shopping orders, two volunteer coaches are on hand for support at a weekly breakfast, which his hosted in a local community house.
Results
Six villages, 11 village coaches, 12 local producers and salespeople, as well as more than 100 people who tested the process, have been fully integrated in the project.
Some 11 000 items can be bought online.
Promoter
LAG KulturLandschaftsInitiative St. Wendeler Land e. V
Funding
Total budget 507 086 (EUR)
RDP 65 900 (Phase II) (EUR)
Other 441 186 (Phase I & Phase III) (EUR)
Resources
Documents
gp_de_smart_village_remmesweiller_647_web_fin.pdf
(PDF – 299.9 KB)
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