As cities across Europe navigate the intertwined green and digital transitions, citizens are emerging as vital co-creators of change. This interactive workshop brings together four EU-funded projects (Living-in.EU, SMARCO, UTMC, ClimaGen) to showcase how municipalities, living labs, and communities are working together to shape inclusive, sustainable futures.
This session will explore how digital tools empower regenerative planning through Living Labs, helping urban and regional ecosystems tackle societal challenges. Using real examples, we’ll examine how co-creation, inclusiveness, and systems thinking are supported by digital solutions, creating value for the ecosystem and connecting local innovation to global regenerative transformation.
When? 1 October 2025, 11:00-12:30
Where? Andorra la Vella Congress Centre, Plaça del Poble, s/n Andorra la Vella
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MIP4Adapt has developed a “do-it-yourself” (DIY) manual to help regional and local authorities identify which participatory activities and tools can be implemented in each step of the Regional Adaptation Support Tool (RAST) cycle, including good practices and local experiences. This will help build a common understanding and ownership of climate adaptation plans and actions, which is key to their successful delivery.
The development and deployment of technological solutions to tackle challenges in European smart communities require a clear understanding of the minimal technical specifications and standardisation requirements to ensure compatibility, efficiency, and scalability.
Citizen engagement for knowledge valorisation refers to the active involvement of citizens, citizens groups, civil society organisations, and communities in turning knowledge and research results to innovative solutions, to help exploit market opportunities and to inform policy-making. The Code of practice supports all R&I actors in building an enabling environment and will help establish participatory processes and practices for sustainable citizen engagement leading to create innovative, knowledge-based solutions that are better matching citizens’ needs.
Industry-academia co-creation means the process of joint production and the valorisation of knowledge between industry, academia and other R&I actors, such as public authorities, social partners and civil society. The code of practice is a detailed guidance to facilitate industry-academia co-creation, to strengthen valorisation of research results and to bridge the gap between research outputs and marketable innovations and the uptake to society.
The European Committee of the Regions (CoR) is preparing an own-initiative opinion on the European Commission’s AI Continent Action Plan. To gather input for the opinion, the rapporteur Mr.
The 2025 All Digital Summit is taking place under the theme "Summit of Educated Digital Citizens: Empowering Connected Generations”.
Taking place this year from Wednesday 10 to Friday 12 September in Valletta, Malta, this Summit brings together educators, digital skills practitioners, policymakers and civil society leaders around the mission of digital inclusion.
The European Commission is organizing an online matchmaking day for applicants to the call on GenAI in Public Administration.
This short article by McKinsey & Company explains simply and clearly what is a digital twin. Learn the basics here.
Published on 26 August 2024.
