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.
We are seeking outstanding policy practices that not only serve as positive examples at the EU level but also actively contribute to shaping general guidelines. These best practices should help enhance the effectiveness of territorial digitalization efforts and address 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

DIGIREG – HOW TO GET INVOLVED?

Webinar session
25 February 2025
11:00 – 12:00 CET
Registrations open at: https://www.eurometrex.org/events/digireg-how-to-get-involved-metrex-engagement-in-2025/

Do you have questions and you want to learn more about the project?
METREX Secretariat invites the members to join the Webinar on February 25 at 11:00 CET. Organized in collaboration with DIGIREG partner Progress Consulting, this session will provide an overview of the programme’s objectives and expected outcomes, with a particular focus on METREX activities —including the *Call for Best Practices*— and the 2025 Action Plan designed to engage our membership.

INFO FOR SUPPORT & CONTACTS

DIGIREG Partners include Politecnico di Milano – Department of Architecture and Urban Studies (POLIMI) (lead partner), Deloitte, Progress Consulting S.r.l. and METREX – The Network of European Metropolitan Regions and Areas.
More about DIGIREG project at https://www.eurometrex.org/activities/european-projects/espon-digireg-territorial-perspectives-of-digital-transition-in-european-regions/

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