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On 21 November, ERA Chair and Professor of E-Governance Vincent Homburg attended the 26th Dutch ECP Conference, a platform where politicians, civil servants, academics and business representatives meet to discuss the future of digital societies. Prof Homburg contributed to a series of expert advice on digitalisation, including a chapter 'Immersion, key to success?', which was published in a book Unfiltered expert advice for the digital government. 

The third international summer school Civic Competence in Creative Cities - How digital Innovations Contribute to Durable Democracies - organised by the ECePS ERA Chair team, took place in person in Tartu from 28 July to 7 August (3 ECTS) and continued online on Moodle from 12 August to 23 August (2 ECTS). Together with the co-organiser KU Leuven and partners from the Catholic University of Lille, the University of Leiden, Masaryk University, the Art Academy of Latvia and the City of Tartu, 24 students from diverse backgrounds and from various European countries, the USA and China set out to learn and explore how digital innovations can contribute to lasting democracies. 

The Summer School „Civic Competence in Creative Cities: How Digital Innovations Contribute to Durable Democracies“ will focus on how to use digital innovations in public administrations to unlock and implement civic competence.  

From 10 to 12 May, Estonian green transition region Ida-Virumaa hosted the DIGI+GREEN hackathon, where teams competed to find solutions on how to make the currently collected data work better for the benefit of green transition.

Join us at the unique hackathon focusing on digital services supporting and leading a green transition. As part of this innovative event, participants will work on co-creating solutions using digital tools and data to help lead and support the biggest change of our generation – the green transition.

ECePS will co-organise the Sino-Nordic Workshop 'Development, opportunities and challenges of digital transformation of welfare services in China and the Nordic Countries', together with Oslo Metropolitan University, University of Helsinki, and Nordic Center Fudan University, in Shanghai on December 14-15 2023.