These workshops in competitive creativity become a participative process that integrates the vision, expertise and knowledge of experts in the subject and also that of the different territories of the demarcation of Barcelona. To make this possible, 6 spaces of competitive creativity have been designed in which several experts in the analysis and management of agricultural and food systems will participate. Each of these 6 sessions takes place in one of the territorial areas that have been defined within the demarcation of Barcelona, to integrate in this project the different visions, problems, needs, challenges and opportunities of each of the territories.

The six territories participating in the meetings will be:

1. Maresme County. Criterion: agricultural space for mostly horticultural production, with initiatives to preserve and manage the agricultural space such as "Agrarian Space of the Five Sénies" and "Agrarian Space of the Baixa Tordera".
    
2. Metropolitan area. Criterion: agricultural spaces located in an extreme peri-urban context, with initiatives to preserve and/or manage agricultural space such as "Parc Agrari del Baixa Llobregat", and "Alimentem Collserola".
    
3. Valais Criterion: agricultural areas characterized by an agroforestry mosaic landscape (cereal fields combined with forest areas), and gentle orography, with initiatives such as "Espai Rural de Gallecs" and "Parc Agrari de Sabadell".
    
4. Anoia County. Criterion: agricultural space characterized by a transitional landscape between the Penedès vineyards, the Baix Llobregat plains, the Montserrat mountain and the Bages plains. Agricultural areas are also characterized by an agroforestry mosaic landscape, with forest areas typical of the Mediterranean mountains. Initiatives to preserve and manage the agricultural space such as the "Agricultural Park of the Conca d'Òdena" stand out.
    
5. Central Counties. Criterion: agricultural areas located in the central plains, characterized by cereal production, forage and vineyards. Traditional urban gardens. Initiative to highlight "Network for the Food Sovereignty of the Central Regions".
    
6. Mountain areas. Criterion: agricultural areas located in mountain areas, combining areas of pasture and extensive crops.

Why the BCN Smart Rural platform?

Because to manage you need to reflect, analyze and plan, with a vision of the future. There is currently a large volume of data and information on agricultural areas and the agricultural sector, but the data is very fragmented, the sources are diverse and it is difficult to aggregate them to carry out analysis. On the other hand, as managers or agricultural facilitators, we often do not have reference projects that can serve as inspiration for promoting new initiatives and actions to preserve and/or manage our agricultural spaces. BCN Smart Rural wants to become a tool that fills these gaps, and above all, "inspires" and "seduces" the different actors of the local world and the agricultural sector to work together to configure agricultural territories with intelligent development strategies.

With what goal?

To promote a Smart development of agricultural spaces: we want to make available to local bodies, and also to other local agents in the territory, tools for the analysis of agricultural spaces, and also tools that allow them to develop strategies -Smart - aimed at its preservation, management and revitalization. We understand this Smart dimension of the new strategies from the perspective that: you need to be creative and daring in the design of new solutions, you need to have an innovative attitude and vision, and you need to have a systemic vision of the territory, which integrates urban systems and agricultural in the same unit.

What do we expect from the competitive creativity workshops?

1. Define together which are the tools that will allow us to analyze, map and x-ray the current situation and future trends of our agricultural areas and the agricultural (economic) sector.
    
2. Define together which are the references or models that can serve as inspiration so that local bodies can promote strategies and projects for the preservation, management and dynamism of their agricultural spaces and/or food systems, from a perspective of "intelligent agricultural development". SMART=resources, innovative attitude.
    
3. Define together how we can, in a creative and utilitarian way, offer these tools to those who want to "ACT".