The European Commission has recently launched a new initiative to “Increase Digitalisation Awareness & Readiness of EU Communities”. The aim of this initiative is to support EU communities at the early stages or that have not yet begun their digital transformation journey by providing resources, best practices, and training to develop digital strategies.
Visit the recording of the online session Community engagement for green and digital urban transitions in cities and regions, which took place on 10 October 2024, as a European Week of Regions and Cities side event. Co-hosted by the projects Go-Li.EU, CommuniCity and UTMC, the event brought together public officials, students, citizens and representatives of private companies and NGOs to discuss how citizens must become involved into co-creation activities for them to stay engaged and overcome common hurdles.
As part of the ESPON 2021-2027 Programme, the ESPON Contact Point in Luxembourg is organising an annual conference on the topic of digitalisation in spatial planning: "Which digital tools to support spatial planning?”
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The European Commission has launched a new initiative to “Increase Digitalisation Awareness and Readiness of EU Communities”. The aim of this initiative is to support EU communities at the early stages or that have not yet begun their digital transformation journey by providing resources, best practices, and training to develop digital strategies.
The European Commission has recently launched a new initiative to “Increase Digitalisation Awareness & Readiness of EU Communities”. The aim of this initiative is to support EU communities at the early stages or that have not yet begun their digital transformation journey by providing resources, best practices, and training to develop digital strategies.
A new concept is taking shape – the CitiVerse, a virtual world, where citizens can navigate and discover public and private cultural, historical, or touristic digital and physical assets, while businesses will offer innovative and circular services. How are EU cities creating the CitiVerse?
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A Comissão Europeia lançou recentemente uma nova iniciativa para “Aumentar a Consciencialização e a Preparação para a Digitalização das Comunidades da UE”. O objetivo desta iniciativa é apoiar as comunidades da UE nas fases iniciais ou que ainda não iniciaram a sua jornada de transformação digital, fornecendo recursos, melhores práticas e formação para desenvolver estratégias digitais.
The meeting will kickoff with the latest developments regarding MIMs Plus, and announce the approval of MIMs Plus Version 7 and the way ahead for this year.
Do you ever wish you could have a conversation with the city you live in? Now, thanks to a combination of the municipally developed digital twin, artificial intelligence, and the work of a local startup, this may soon be possible in Munich. Granted, the questions will have to be quite practical in nature – you won’t be able to ask your city if it feels lonely in emptier months, or what its favourite animal is, at least not for now.
The Forum inCyber (FIC) is Europe's largest cybersecurity event, with 19,000 participants from over 100 countries welcomed at the last edition in March 2024. The FIC is both a three-day conference - with ministers, CISOs, CTOs and European Commissioners - and an exhibition with some 500 partners present from across the public and private sectors, including a large number of start-ups, SMEs and innovative research laboratories, as well as a number of high-level speakers from the European institutions and agencies as well as Member State delegations.
