Pilot site for testing smart community services, remote work and temporary residency in Alpine areas

Valle Soana offers a valuable living lab for testing solutions addressed to low-density mountain areas: digital services, coworking for remote workers, temporary residency, cultural participation, community-based hospitality, accessibility, mobility solutions and local service innovation.

Comunità Sassifraga is building a gradual model that starts from cultural activation and evolves towards coworking and community housing. This makes the territory suitable for testing both early-stage engagement tools and more structured services for new inhabitants, remote workers, artists, researchers and young professionals.

We can support European consortia by providing access to a real territorial context, local knowledge, community relations and the capacity to organise activities with residents, municipalities, associations and visitors.

We can contribute to
Pilot implementation; recruitment of local participants; testing of digital/community services; temporary residency experiments; qualitative feedback; local events; communication; impact data collection; connection with municipalities and local associations.

Ideal partners
Technology providers, universities, research centres, municipalities, rural innovation networks, social housing organisations, tourism/cultural heritage actors, energy and mobility experts.

Keywords
Living lab; Alpine pilot; smart communities; remote work; temporary residency; digital services; mountain innovation; rural services; social impact; Valle Soana.