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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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“Every time an App or website asks us to create a new digital identity or to easily log on via a big platform, we have no idea what happens to our data in reality. That is why the Commission will soon propose a secure European e-identity. One that we trust and that any citizen can […]
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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). […]
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In all five empirical case studies from Denmark, presented in the Public Deliverable ‘D6.1: 4th Empirical approach to value co-creation in public services: structural transformations’, the Co-VAL team focuses on examples of social innovation emerging in the interplay between the public sector and the third sector and/or civil society. Nevertheless, as Professor Lars Fuglsang, Postdoc […]
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How do living labs evolve as organizational and institutional structures for innovation in real-life settings based on co-creation and co-innovation of public services? What are the future potentials of this specific approach to public sector innovation? These are the questions, which Prof. Lars Fuglsang and Dr. Anne Vorre Hansen from Roskilde University are looking to […]
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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Co-VAL launches its knowledge base repository, a curated collection of research articles and publication entries related to the topics pertinent to Co-VAL, such as that of public sector co-creation, public service design, public sector innovation, and digital transformation. Co-VAL’s knowledge base contains 700 publication entries from prominent journals and publishers. Academics from leading universities and institutions across […]
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by Prof. Dr. Ines Mergel The digital transformation of public administration is increasingly shifting the focus to competencies instead of processes and tasks. HR departments and managers must now consider in which areas their employees have special skills that can be adapted to meet the new challenges in a digitalised workplace. In the future, administrative […]
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In ‘The State of ‘Co-Creation:’ How Countries, Cities and Regions are Using New Thinking to Deliver Better Services’, Co-VAL’s newest Policy Brief, Anthony Arundel, Professorial Fellow at UNU-MERIT, Francesco Mureddu, Director at the Lisbon Council and David Osimo, Director of Research at the Lisbon Council, propose an eight-point programme for delivering co-creation in public administrations […]
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