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E-COOP = DIGITAL COOPERATIVES
Developing new approaches to developing digital literacy in Europe's regions.

Project Status:

Completed

Project Leader:

Jose Manuel San Emeterio

Funding Programme:

INTERREG IV C

Project Budget:

€2,408,225

Start Date:

Jan, 2012

Finish Date:

Dec, 2014

Project Website:

www.ecoopproject.eu

The aim of the project is to:

Develop action plans for deploying next-generation "Digital Cooperatives" in European regions

Specific objectives are to:

Observe and share a series of practices experimented throughout Europe, in order to build the best proceeding to promote digital uses through the implementation of mediation services dedicated to citizens and local project leaders.

Region	Organisation / Role
Achaia Greece	RACTI Micro-implementation with interregional scope
Donegal Ireland	ERNACT Joint responsibility for Action Plans along with Barcelona City Council
Gironde France	Conseil Général de la Gironde Lead Partner for the project, with overall resp. for delivering the project within budget and liaison with EU
Košice Region Slovakia (Slovak Rep.)	University of Economics of Bratislava Contribution to Work Groups
Mazovia Province Poland	Mazovian Agriculture Advisory Centre (MODR) Contribution to Work Groups
Province of Barcelona Spain	Barcelona Provincial Council Exchange of experiences dedicated to the identification and analysis of good practises
Västernorrlands Sweden	Association of Local Authorities in Västernorrland Contribution to Work Groups

Knowledge transfer materials dealing with concrete aspects of defining and bringing into life an E-coop.
Better Awareness about the users' needs and expectations for Digital Public Spaces (DPS) mediators.
Good Practices transfer on mediation to new uses.
Reduction the digital gap and enhance local innovation through public participation thanks to ICT and Digital uses.

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

Region

Organisation / Service

Gironde

Mission des offices de tourisme et pays touristiques d’Aquitaine
MOPA: “territory’s digital mediators”

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City of Jyväskylä

Jyväskylän kaupunki
Citizens’ service points – one stop shop model

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Cambridgeshire County

Cambridgeshire County Council
Community Access Points

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Cambridgeshire County

Cambridgeshire County Council
Community Engagement & Hubs

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Cambridgeshire County

Cambridgeshire County Council
Talk About Cambridgeshire

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Cambridgeshire County

Cambridgeshire County Council
Volunteer network

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Achaia

Municipality of Western Achaia
Western Achaia Telecenter

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Perugia

Istituto Tecnico Tecnologico Statale Alessandro Volta
Volt@ Smart School

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City of Terni

Comune di Terni
BCT– Terni Public Library

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Gironde

Arrêt Minute
Arrêt Minute, a co-working space in the vineyard

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The “E-coop project” partnership, gathering 13 partners from 12 EU countries and representing local authorities and ICT related networks and stakeholders, has expressed the will to investigate how the DPS (Digital Public Spaces) could evolve, based on mediation between the uses and the users, to become “E-coops” (digital cooperatives) and offer new services interacting in a more collaborative way with the users. Taking an active part in various types of networks, “E-coops” could prefigure a new generation of DPS, considering users not only as consumers of public services, but mostly as co-designers of innovative solutions.