Project summary
In recent years, the number of public services available online has multiplied, demand from citizens is growing (61%-65% according to the DESI 2022) and Covid has accelerated this shift towards all-digital services. This phenomenon is linked to the EU's digital policy, which has established a Digital Decade policy programme. This programme sets out concrete targets and objectives for 2030 to guide Europe's digital transformation. These objectives include the digitalisation of 100% of public services. To achieve this ambitious goal, public employees need to have the necessary IT skills.
Digital skills are an essential step in the development of better governance policy because they not only contribute to the efficiency of specific jobs or missions, but it also favours the recruitment, on boarding, training, and, most of all, teamwork and the creation of internal networks in a digital world. Increasing digital skills of public employees based on the European digital agenda will provide better services to citizens and improve the efficiency in the design and provision of public services, contributing to the sustainable development and improving quality of life for citizens.
Digital skills must be seen not just as a choice of tools but as a real HR issue and an essential part of the daily work of public employees at all levels of the organisation. However, this is not the case. Lack of digital skills is a serious problem sometimes undetectable.
The common challenge faced by 8 partners, coming from 7 regions across Europe and addressing all administration levels and in different stages of implementation of digital skill, to develop a framework for better governance by improving digital skills in public employees which will be deploy in the different countries belonging this project in order to learn experiences from other regions, identifying, analysing and transferring good practices with the aim of improving regional development policy instruments.
Digital skills are an essential step in the development of better governance policy because they not only contribute to the efficiency of specific jobs or missions, but it also favours the recruitment, on boarding, training, and, most of all, teamwork and the creation of internal networks in a digital world. Increasing digital skills of public employees based on the European digital agenda will provide better services to citizens and improve the efficiency in the design and provision of public services, contributing to the sustainable development and improving quality of life for citizens.
Digital skills must be seen not just as a choice of tools but as a real HR issue and an essential part of the daily work of public employees at all levels of the organisation. However, this is not the case. Lack of digital skills is a serious problem sometimes undetectable.
The common challenge faced by 8 partners, coming from 7 regions across Europe and addressing all administration levels and in different stages of implementation of digital skill, to develop a framework for better governance by improving digital skills in public employees which will be deploy in the different countries belonging this project in order to learn experiences from other regions, identifying, analysing and transferring good practices with the aim of improving regional development policy instruments.
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1,355,743 € budget
01 Apr 2024-30 Jun 2028
7 partners