We would like to invite you to the high-level digital government summit, ‘Government in the Service of Citizens – How ‘Co-Creation’ and Design Thinking Are Making European Public Services Truly Human Centric’, organised by the Lisbon Council and the Co-VAL project, on Wednesday April 21st, at 15h00-17h00 CEST. During this event, experts from five flagship […]
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We would like to invite you to the Virtual Town Hall Meeting ‘Human-Centric Digital Government in Practice’ that the Co-VAL project is organizing with the Lisbon Council, on Friday, December 11th 2020 at 12h00-13h00 CET. This highly interactive virtual event, convened in the immediate aftermath of the signing of the Berlin Declaration on Digital Society, will […]
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Following the growing escalation of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak around the world and after careful consideration, the 30th RESER International Congress & Co-VAL Conference will be rescheduled to take place on January 21st – 22nd 2021 virtually. We have also extended our deadlines for abstracts submission. The new deadlines are: Abstract submission deadline: September 30, 2020. […]
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We would like to announce that the Municipality of Bærum, Athens Technology Center, the Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences, the University of Alcalá and the Oslo Region European Office are organising the webinar “Improving co-creation in public services“, on October 7th, from 11.30 – 13.00, during the European Week of Regions and Cities (EWRC). […]
Read moreBy David Osimo, director of research at the Lisbon Council, a leading Brussels-based think tank and partner of the Co-VAL project. In these days of crisis and lockdown, digital government has suddenly become an essential service. By and large, many governments have risen to the challenge. Digital teams have worked day and night to provide […]
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We would like to invite you to the High-Level Webinar and Interactive Briefing “Beyond the State of Emergency: How Cities are Working with Citizens to Exit the Lock-down” that we are organising with the Lisbon Council, on Thursday, 28 May 2020, at 16h00-17h00 CET. After two months of lock-down marked by strict “stay at home” […]
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We are very pleased to invite you to the High-Level ‘Webinar on The Co-VAL Dashboard: The Opportunities Behind Sharing Best Practice in Co-Creation’ that we are co-organising with EUROCITIES, on Tuesday, 11 February 2020, from 11.00 to 12.00 CET. “Co-creation” is the complex process in which citizens stop simply consuming government services and start to […]
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The Co-VAL project and the European Association for Research on Services (RESER) join forces at the 30th RESER International Congress: Co-creation and Innovation in the New Service Economy (June 18th – 19th 2020) by organising the ‘Co-VAL Conference: Value Co-creation, Innovation and Digital Transformation in Public Services’ on June 18th 2020, in the University of Alcalá, in Alcalá, Madrid, […]
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“Co-creation” and “design-thinking” have captured the imagination of many, but public administrations around Europe sometimes struggle to turn them from a trendy idea into a reality for their citizens. Against this backdrop, the Lisbon Council brought together leading experts, top civil servants think tankers, and policymakers to convene the High-Level Summit on ‘Co-Creation’ and ‘Design Thinking’. The […]
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On 6th June 2019, meet us in Brussels to discuss about co-creation and design thinking in the public sector! We are hosting a high-level summit to see the launch of Co-VAL’s first policy brief titled “Government Co-Creation: Why and How – a new policy brief based on more than one year of field analysis and […]
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