BECOME A DIGIREG SHOWCASE

Share your experience, become a showcase at the EU level and chase the opportunity to participate in drafting the European guidelines to achieve the Digital Decade’s targets and reduce the digital divide at the territorial level!

Call opens on January 28, 2025 – Closes: March 20, 2025

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In the context of the DIGIREG’ project, METREX Secretariat is pleased to invite your territorial level (from local to regional) to become a showcase with a best policy practice that can offer a positive example at the EU level while actively and critically contributing to provide indications for general guidelines useful to improve effectiveness in implementing territorial digitalization and reducing digital divides.

WHAT ARE WE LOOKING FOR?

Policy Practices undertaken by public administrations (at any administrative level—national, regional, local) in the last 10 years (since 2015) that successfully address/addressed the digital divide at the territorial level (regional, local) can be considered DIGIREG best policy practices and become internationally recognized DIGIREG showcases.

Policy practices can address one or more of the digital divides defined by DIGIREG:

• Level 1: Connectivity and digital infrastructures (example: broadband deployment),
• Level 2: Capabilities (skills, education,…) to use digital technologies (example: training course for ‘disconnected’ groups)
• Level 3: Socio-economic benefits derived from use and access (example: increasing accessibility and use of e-government services)

WHAT WOULD BE A POLICY PRACTICE?

It could be any of the following:

• Laws/regulations.
• Strategic or operational documents (e.g., strategies, programmes, roadmaps, masterplans, agendas, action plans).
• Agreements (e.g., PPP, Memorandum of Understanding, cooperation protocols).
• Projects (i.e., funded or co-funded by ESIF; EU Budget & Next Generation EU; other public and/or private sources).

WHEN DOES A POLICY PRACTICE BECOME ‘A BEST PRACTICE’ ?

When:

• its positive impact is assessed by an impact-evaluation report, study, awards, official acknowledgment…
• Its positive impact is assessed by quantitative/qualitative indicators used by the implementer

WHY TO APPLY?

Get the EU recognition as a DIGIREG showcase
Put your territory in the spotlight
Become an active player in the design of Guidelines for digital transition

Starting from the collection of best policy practices while highlighting what are the struggles and challenges faced by local and regional authorities across Europe, the DIGIREG project will create a catalogue of showcases and develop – three types of Guidelines:

1/ to support the achievement of the Digital Decade targets,
2/ to reduce the digital divide at the territorial level,
3/ to enhance the ability of local and regional public authorities to design and implement digital transformation interventions across European regions.

APPLY NOW

Via the following E-FORM

INFO FOR SUPPORT & CONTACTS

METREX Team is at your disposal for any assistance and requests for clarification via email at viviana.rubbo@eurometrex.org