The ‘D2.7 Preliminary survey results report ‘provides the descriptive preliminary survey results of the main survey in Co-VAL’s WP2, on innovation and the use of co-creation methods, amongst public sector managers in municipalities and national government organizations. Six European countries participated in the survey, France, Hungary, Spain, the Netherlands, Norway and the UK. The countries […]
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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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In our latest report “Public Service Innovation Networks (PSINs): Collaborating for Innovation and Value Creation”, included in the Deliverable ‘D6.1: 4th Empirical approach to value co-creation in public services: structural transformations’, Benoît Desmarchelier, Faridah Djellal and Faïz Gallouj from the University of Lille, Center for Sociological and Economic Studies and Research (Clersé), address the issue […]
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Recognising the significant role of collaborative innovation in Innovation Studies is something of paramount importance. As seen in the ‘Public Service Innovation Networks (PSINs): Collaborating for Innovation and Value Creation’ report included in the Deliverable ‘D6.1: 4th Empirical approach to value co-creation in public services: structural transformations’ there have been serious advances in the collaborative […]
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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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Earlier this month, during the 2019 Digital Government Conference in Helsinki, the Lisbon Council launched ‘The Public-Data Opportunity: Why Governments Should Share More’, a new discussion paper after the insights gained at the workshop on ‘Public Sector Data: Still a Missed Opportunity’, held in Brussels on 4 June 2019. Based on the research conducted within […]
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In her newest published paper ‘Digital service teams in government’ in Government Information Quarterly (GIQ), Dr. Ines Mergel, Professor of Public Administration at the University of Konstanz, elaborated on how national governments are setting up digital service teams (DST), in order to respond to complex IT governance and societal challenges and to introduce digital transformation […]
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From the 25th to the 27th of September 2019, the Co-VAL consortium will carry out the 5th Plenary Meeting and the 3rd Stakeholder Panel Meeting in Cagliari, Sardinia. The Plenary Meeting will take place from the 25th to the 26th of September 2019, hosted by the Lisbon Council. On the 27th of September, the Stakeholders […]
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Nowadays, there is a certain ambiguity – as well as lack of systematic empirical evidence – over how public administrators are defining digital transformation, based on their own daily practices, how they are approaching digital transformation projects, and what their anticipated outcomes are. In their newest published paper ‘Defining digital transformation: Results from expert interviews’ in […]
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“Co-creation” and “design thinking” are trendy themes – the topic of innumerable conferences and a growing number of academic papers. But how do we turn co-creation into a reality for Europe’s 508 million citizens? In Co-Creation of Public Services: Why and How, Co-VAL’s new Policy Brief, co-authors Francesco Mureddu and David Osimo propose a ten-step roadmap for delivering genuinely user-centric digital […]
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