Digital Agenda Funding

Project Status: Live Project

Project Leader: Margaret Quinn

EU Programme: Interreg Europe

Project Budget:

Start Date: Mar, 2023

Finish Date: Oct, 2025

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The aim of the project is to:

Enable regional and local governments to lead AI-driven policies supporting the digital transformation of their territories.

Specific objectives are to:

Build the capacity of the public sector to unlock the benefits of AI balanced with ethical, fairness and safety considerations.
Empower the role of the public sector as early-adopter and promoter of AI-driven solutions.
Assist the public sector in the implementation of more open, transparent and ethical policies and services.

Donegal, Ireland
ERNACT Network(Lead Partner)
Overall project manager, communications and administration and reporting

Margaret Quinn
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Burgundy, France
Burgundy Regional Council(Partner)
The Burgundy Regional Council has been supporting the development of innovative digital public services in the area for many years, particularly AI based services

Sophie Valdenaire
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Donegal, Ireland
Donegal County Council(Partner)
Donegal County Council has over 30 years of experience in working on digital transformation projects with European partners

Daragh McDonough
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Nièvre, France
Nièvre Numérique(Partner)
Nievre Numerique is in charge of the county's digital strategy and the application of ICT to all socio-economic development

Clive Peckham
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Opole Voivodeship, Poland
Opolskie Centre for Economy Development/ Opolskie Voivodeship(Partner)
OCRG is the intermediate body responsible for the Priority 1 (EU Policy objective 1) implementation, it is supporting the ICT sector since 2014

Marcin Staniszewski
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San Sebastián, Spain
Fomento de San Sebastián(Partner)
Fomento de San Sebastian is building a strong research and private ecosystem around AI, in many different fields: health, transport etc. 

Gorka Díez Jiménez
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Skellefteå, Sweden

Skellefteå Municipality (Partner)
Skelleftea Municipality has many decades of experience of conducting continuous business development with focus on developing digital services

Michael Carlberg Lax

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Västerbotten, Sweden

Umeå University (Partner)
Umea University has extensive knowledge and experiences in disruptive technologies (AI) and in policy instruments regarding digitalisation and digital transformation

Mikael Söderström

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Develop more tailored and anticipatory services and policies by making use of AI in an ethical, fair and safe way.
Promote the use and implementation of AI-powered solutions, serving as empirical example of the benefits and competitive advantage that this technology can bring.
Stay connected and become part of collaboration ecosystems at both national and EU level to increase their capacity to develop improved AI-enabled services and policies.

The ERNACT regions focus on adapting and transferring services, approaches or digital knowhow between regions. Please examine the following table to see a list of specific items transferred over the past few years

The project focuses on how to upskill the public sector to lead this transformation taking advantage of the potential that artificial intelligence (AI) has to deliver improved digitisation policies and services.