459 Innovation Hub for Rural Areas and People Pavel Šimek 1 , Jan Jarolímek 1 , Jiří Vaněk 1 , Edita Šilerová 1 , Eva Kánská 1 , Miloš Ulman 1 , Karel Charvát 2 , Jiří Kvapil 2 , Petr Uhlíř 2 , František Zadražil 2 , Ota Čerba 3 , Pavel Hájek 3 , Raitis Berzins 4 , Michal Kepka 4 , Stein Runar Bergheim 5 , Šárka Horáková 6 1 Department of Information Technologies, Faculty of Economics and Management, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Czech Republic; e-mails: simek@pef.czu.cz; jarolimek@pef.czu.cz; masner@pef.czu.cz; kanska@pef.czu.cz; ulman@pef.czu.cz 2 Czech Center for Science and Society, Prague, Czech Republic; e-mails: charvat@ccss.cz; kvapil@ccss.cz; uhlir@ccss.cz; zadrazi@ccss.cz 3 Plan4all z.s., Horní Bříza, Czech Republic; e-mails: cerba@plan4all.eu; hajek@plan4all.eu 4 Baltic Open Solutions Center, Jelgava, Latvia; e-mails: berzins@bosc.lv; kepka@bosc.lv 5 Asplan Viak Internet A.S., Arendal, Norway; e-mail: rb@avinet.no 6 Club of Ossiach, Villach, Austria; e-mail: horakova@clubofossiach.com Abstract. Rural areas are under pressure. Over the past twenty-five years, rural regions have experienced a rapidly shrinking population as people, especially young adults, have migrated to cities. PoliRural is a research and innovation project designed to advance rural policy development in the age of disruptive data and technologies in order to deliver a trusted, scalable and transferable solution for policy co-creation. PoliRural project includes two main parts, rural part and technological part. In the second part are text mining solution or dynamic model tool. The technological part is covered by PoliRural Digital Innovation Hub (DiH). The DiH is the main ICT vehicle for interactive knowledge sharing and will host all results generated by the project. It will include 12 regional hubs (in accordance with 12 regional pilots) represented as living case studies. The DiH is a multi-actor ecosystem that supports communities in their digital transformation by providing a broad variety of services from a one-stop shop. Keywords: Rural development; ICT; text mining; Digital Hub. 1 Introduction Rural areas are under pressure. Despite being home to more than a quarter of Europe’s population and providing more than one fifth of all EU jobs, the old- fashioned image of the rural idyll is seemingly no longer valid. Over the past twenty- five years, rural regions have experienced a rapidly shrinking population as people, especially young adults, have migrated to cities with the lure of better paid jobs, modern affordable homes and more exciting lifestyles (Westhoek, van den Berg and