Discussion on co-creation for public administration is quite old. Yet, in case you are just now starting to get acquainted with the concept, we think that a good starting point is the article of Francis Gouillart & Tina Hallett [as published in the Stanford Social innovation Review, Spring 2015 issue]. The authors lead the reader […]

Next Steps for Digital Government: A Six-Point Programme. On March 14th 2018, the Lisbon Council launched “How Local Government Reform is Key to Europe’s Digital Success: A Six-Point Programme for eGovernment Renewal”, an incisive policy brief that proposes a six-step programme for improving public-service delivery throughout Europe. It calls for more direct and systematic collaboration […]

Private sector co-creation initiatives are rarely the same as the ones applied in the public sector. At least this is what F. Gouillart & T. Hallett state, in their 2015 article “Co-Creation in Government”, where they present 4 basic challenges that most co-creation projects, affecting public administration, have to overcome, and how they can achieve […]

On January 31st – February 1st 2018, the Co-VAL project will hold a meeting for discussing the status, plans and next steps with respect to Workpackages WP1, WP4 and WP6 activities, namely, WP1: Developing the conceptual framework for Co-VAL, WP4: Service design for public sector transformation and WP6: Structural transformations, public-private networks and social innovation. […]

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On November 13th-14th 2017, the Co-VAL (Understanding value co-creation in public services for transforming European public administrations) project consortium held its Kick-off meeting. The meeting was hosted by Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences at the Scandic Lillehammer Hotel in Lillehammer, Norway. The Co-VAL project is a new European research initiative, co-funded under the H2020 […]