Background

Every year, Living-in.EU signatories shape the work plans of its five working groups (WGs): Legal, Financial, Monitoring & Measuring, Technical, and Education & Capacity-building. The annual WG work plans represent a fundamental instrument to define priorities and activities for the upcoming year. Co-creating them together with signatories helps reflect the main priorities and objectives for the digital transformation of local and regional authorities across Europe. 

Focus of the session

The Public Sector Tech Watch is organising a workshop titled “ApplyAI: Identifying public administrations needs for AI adoption”, held online on 11 December from 10.30 to 12.30 (CET).

A new call for a Coordination and Support Action (CSA) is available under the Digital Europe Programme: This call is dedicated to building an ecosystem for Generative AI and public administrations. It targets stakeholders from higher education institutions, research and technology organisations, civil-society organisations, non-governmental organisations, and other interested stakeholders

This Living-in.EU Stakeholder Forum will cover a range of key topics, including updates on the LDT4SSC open call, progress on DS4SSCC project and ongoing work related to the MIMs Plus. The forum will also include inputs from the LDT Citiverse EDIC, the EU LDT Toolbox and results emerging from the CitiVerse projects. Additionally, CitCom.ai will share examples from testing environments and the session will conclude with an overview of the process for developing the 2026 work plans of the working groups.

Agenda

This Living-in.EU Technical Working Group Meeting will address two main topics: the LDT4SSC project's open call and updates related to MIMs Plus. 

Two key projects on European digital transformation at local and regional level are organising a joint Stakeholder Forum meeting: The EU Data Space for Smart and Sustainable Cities and Communities (DS4SSCC) and the Local Digital Twins for Smart Sustainable Communities (LDT4SSC).

The LDT4SSC project is now launching its first Open Call of Work Strand 1 (WS1): You are now invited to an interactive info session about the project!

European Digital Infrastructure Consortia (EDICs) are dedicated legal entities aiming to implementing EU multi-country projects: They pool EU, national and private resources to achieve progress at a scale that no single member state could do on its own. 

The Annual EDIC Gathering establishes a more structured framework for cooperation between EDICs: It brings together representatives of existing and emerging EDICs, Member States, EU Institutions, industry and other key stakeholders.