The Strategy for the Development of Olsztynek Municipality 2022-2030 is the main planning document in the Municipality of Olsztynek and is consistent with other strategies and plans at regional and local level. It is an update of an earlier document that takes into account the impact of the pandemic and the changing socio-economic situation. The strategy consists of four parts: 1) Socio-economic diagnosis, 2) Vision, strategic and operational objectives, key actions, 3) Consistency with other planning documents, 4) Implementation of the strategy, together with financial data and funding sources.
Increasing entrepreneurship is one of the challenges for the municipality. Other challenges related to the theme of the project are: low social inclusion of residents and low technical infrastructure.
The vision and strategic objectives of the strategy were envisaged in relation to four thematic areas: spatial, social, economic and environmental. The main objective for the municipality of Olsztynek is sustainable economic development and increasing the quality of life of its inhabitants.
In the part of the strategy related to economic development, the Smart Village concept has been briefly described. However, no further specific objectives or measures are planned for the implementation of the Smart Village approach.

The Social Inclusion Community Activation Programme (SICAP) is the national Social Inclusion Programme to reduce poverty and promote inclusion and equality. Ballyhoura Development (BD) designs and develops the 5-year SICAP Strategy and Annual Implementation Plan for North Cork and East Limerick. The current strategy funded by Govt of Ireland and the ESF will run from 2024-28. SICAP targets people/communities with economic and/or social disadvantage with 2 aims; Support communities and engage with them in identifying/addressing social exclusion/equality issues; Support disadvantaged people to improve their quality of life via lifelong learning and labour market support. BD design, develop and deliver the SICAP Strategy and Plan using community development methods with focus on inclusion, collaboration, equality, anti-discrimination. Available statistics show an increasing digital divide defined by age and economic status. Over half of Irish people over 60 don't use the internet. Particularly relevant to SICAP is that households without anyone employed use the internet less than average, with only 63% of these online vs a national average of 89%, and 35% of people in unemployed households having never used the internet. BD believes that the profile of digital literacy in the area is in line with national % and that digital illiteracy is significantly higher in many parts of the area, highlighting the need to focus on digital inclusion as part of the overall inclusion response.

Zemgale Planning Region Development Programme 2021–2027. The Strategic Part determines the medium-term strategic settings and actions of the Sustainable Development Strategy of the Zemgale Planning Region for 2015-2030. (hereinafter referred to as Strategy) to achieve the long-term strategic setting - vision, strategic goal, long-term development priorities.

The strategic part of the development program defines nine medium-term development priorities, sets directions for action to achieve the development priorities and results to be achieved. Three horizontal priorities taken into account when implementing development priorities.

P1 Quality, accessible, multifaceted lifelong learning

P2 Social inclusion and health promotion

P3 Competitiveness and growth of enterprises

The instrument is the Model Factory programme of the SME Strategy, that is part of the Hungarian Government’s National SME Strategy 2019-2030 and implements activities improving the resilience and competitiveness of SMEs, matching the criteria of the National S3 Strategy to reduce territorial disparities.The model factory approach helps rural enterpreneurs to unlock their potential helping them to learn the available best digital technologies, in the context of a smart villages approach focusing on digital innovation.This activity aims at the improvement of competetiveness of local rural SMEs by incentivising the use of the best digital technologies in production and services, part of the smart villages rationale, and at motivating owners in rural areas to assist employees to upgrade the digital skills, also withing the smart villages rationale. More specifically, the Model Factory programme helps developing the realisation of smart village concept by making the business models and operations of the rural enterprises more digital, more open, more flexible and more keen to adopt smart business models based on digital technologies. This inspires a more intense use of data driven management techniques, better decision making and more circular operations. These changes, within the smart villages rationale, are required for the survival of SMEs in rural areas and are necessary for rural SMEs to be able to open up to possibilities available in the regional innovation ecosystem.

In addition to EU requirements and LEADER guidelines, the federal states of Germany are the main bearers of responsibility for implementation. Following the bottom-up idea behind LEADER, the local development strategy of the LAG Lahn-Dill-Wetzlar was created in a broad participation process. The first digital options have already been tested here. Through the creation process, four fields of action were defined for the region:
-Field of action 1: Equal living conditions for ALL– basic services (issues of local and primary care or medicine; promotion of leisure, club life or lifelong education).
-Field of action 2: Economic development and regional supply structures through small and micro enterprises (issues of attractiveness as a business location, new working models and methods, skilled workers and trainees)
-Field of action 3: Use recreational areas for local recreation and rural tourism (issues of valorisation of the tourist infrastructure, service quality, promotion of culture)
-Field of action 4: Bioeconomy (issues of local cycles, new energy production, awareness and educational work, consumer behaviour)
A total of 5 cross-cutting objectives, with overarching importance, have been set. One of them is the use of digitalization and the dynamics behind digital applications. Digitalization also plays a role in the planned lighthouse projects, such as digital presentation of the regional culture or the establishment of the region as a co-working region.

ERDF operational programme is currently under definition in Cantabria for 2021-2027. For this programming period, it includes under its PO5 a new participative strategy for Besaya’s Basin territory to be materialised as an Integrated Territorial Investment (ITI), heavily aligned with other territorial strategies such as the S3 2021-2027, directly linked with ERDF PO1. This instrument is designed to support a set of integrated actions in the Besaya’s geographical area in order to respond to its specific needs and challenges. It is therefore a management instrument, as defined in Regulation (EU) No 2021/1060, which allows for a territorial approach to be applied in the design and implementation of public policies (i.e. combining fundings from different thematic objectives and operational programmes supported by different structural funds). The ITI Strategy is articulated through 5 strategic axes (Industrial transition, Environmental resources, People, Smart Besaya and Culture and heritage), which in turn contemplate strategic lines to be deployed through more specific actions.
In particular, “Priority Axis 3 – Urban-rural linkage development: Smart Besaya” has a clear alignment with the Smart Village concept (e.g. “A3.1 – To promote a territorial development model that improves the cohesion between urban and rural areas, in a joint development process that takes advantage of the dynamic capacity of urban areas to provide value-added services through a smart perspective”).