DIGITAL COOPERATIVES

Programme 2007 - 2013 Interreg IVC

Date of latest update: 2023-01-14

Description

Description (EN):

European citizens do not participate equally in the Information society: in fact, the digital gap is moving down from infrastructures to uses. Based on this observation, local authorities in Europe have developed Digital Public Spaces (DPS) promoting e-inclusion. These facilities, mostly localized in libraries or social centres, provide users with training on current use of Internet tools and activities to ease their participation in the Information society. But nowadays, as always more people use digital technologies, there is a deep need for DPS to evolve, to renew and increase their audiences and offer more innovative and collaborative services. DPS could benefit from a network-based organization, both active IRL (“In real Life”) and online, in order to be identified by all types of populations and potential users as useful resource centres in the digital era and a qualified birthplace for local digital projects. In this context, the “E-coop project” partnership, gathering 12 partners from 12 EU countries and representing local authorities and ICT related networks and stakeholders, has expressed the will to investigate how the DPS could evolve, based on mediation between the uses and the users, to become “E-coops” (digital cooperatives) and offer new services interacting in a more collaborative way with the users. Taking an active part in various types of networks, “E-coops” could prefigure a new generation of DPS, considering users not only as consumers of public services, but mostly as co-designers of innovative solutions. Given the importance of ICT tools for the knowledge economy a full participation of all citizens in the information society is crucial for regional and local development of tomorrow. Through studies, thematic exchange seminars, study visits and conferences, the project aims at providing policy makers and relevant stakeholders with compared analysis and recommendations on digital mediation practices, identified within the partner territories, and to identify ways of enhancing regional/local public policies in implementing «E-coops». Each partner will actively associate its local stakeholders via local seminars or digital consultations (E-coop academies). The project will produce a certain amount of knowledge transfer materials, such as brochures and methodological guides, dealing with concrete aspects of defining and bringing into life an E-coop. Partners will test the defined methodological framework validity through concrete micro-implementations of ""e-Coop"" parameters at the territorial level. The final results will consist in -Better awareness of ICT policy makers about the users’ needs and expectations concerning the DPS mediators; -Good practices transfers on mediation to new uses; -Direct impact on public policies aimed at reducing the digital gap; -Enhancing local innovation through citizens’ participation thanks to ICT and digital uses.

Achievements (EN):

The E-COOP project was launched on April 2012, with the first interregional event hosted in Gironde, France. Almost all partners participated and thus started creating working habits. After a presentation of each partner, 3 public workshops took place during the kick-off meeting, on the following themes: - Participation of all citizens and stakeholders : University of Bratislava (SK) / Mazovian Agricultural Advisory Centre (PL) / ERNACT (IR) / City of Iasi (RO) ; - Missions, budgets and training for intermediaries to public e-services : Computer Technology Institute (GR) / Cambridgeshire County Council (UK) / OTEN (FR) / Gironde County Council (FR) - Co-building e-services with users : WPRED NLtd (HU) / Barcelona Provincial Council (SP) / City of Terni (IT) / City of Jyväskylä (FI). Philippe Cazeneuve, a french ICT expert made a speech on digital literacy and “the notion of digital mediation throughout Europe”. The main idea developed was about digital tools (including digital public spaces) as ways to enhance people’s empowerment and possibilities to innovate. Not only was this event a great opportunity to set the project on its path (1rst steering committee) but it also allowed to start disseminating among Gironde County stakeholders, who were invited to the kick-off conference (more than 110 attendees, including the partners). Apart from the launching event, a wide range of activities have been successfully implemented during the first semester. Most of them were directly related to the project’s general management (workplans, organization of activities, design of collaboration tools, etc). All partners started arranging regular internal meetings with their own staff and experts, in order to implement the activities and identify good practices in relationship with the project’s objectives on their territory.

Thematic information

ICT and digital society New products and services

Partners (12)

Lead Partner: Conseil Général de la Gironde

Address: Esplanade Charles-de-Gaulle, 33074 Bordeaux cedex, France

Legal status: n/a

Jyväskylän kaupunki

Name: Jyväskylän kaupunki

Address: Hannikaisenk. 17, 40100 Jyväskylä, Finland

Legal status: n/a

Kommunförbundet Västernorrland

Name: Kommunförbundet Västernorrland

Address: Box 3014, 871 03 Härnösand, Sweden

Legal status: n/a

Diputació de Barcelona

Name: Diputació de Barcelona

Address: Rambla de Catalunya, 126, 8008 Barcelona, Spain

Legal status: n/a

Mazowiecki Ośrodek Doradztwa Rolniczego w Warszawie

Name: Mazowiecki Ośrodek Doradztwa Rolniczego w Warszawie

Address: ul. Czereśniowa 98, 02-456 Warszawa, Poland

Legal status: n/a

Ινστιτούτο Τεχνολογίας Υπολογιστών & Εκδόσεων «ΔΙΟΦΑΝΤΟΣ» (ΙΤΥΕ)

Name: Ινστιτούτο Τεχνολογίας Υπολογιστών & Εκδόσεων «ΔΙΟΦΑΝΤΟΣ» (ΙΤΥΕ)

Address: N.KAZANTZAKI STR, UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS CAMPUS, 26504 PATRAS, Greece

Legal status: n/a

Comune di Terni

Name: Comune di Terni

Address: Piazza Ridolfi n.1 - Palazzo Spada, 5100 TERNI, Italy

Legal status: n/a

Nyugat-Pannon Terület- és Gazdaságfejlesztési Szolgáltató Közhasznú Nonprofit Kft.

Name: Nyugat-Pannon Terület- és Gazdaságfejlesztési Szolgáltató Közhasznú Nonprofit Kft.

Address: Horváth Boldizsár krt 9 , H-9700 Szombathely, Hungary

Legal status: n/a

Primaria Municipiului Iasi

Name: Primaria Municipiului Iasi

Address: Bd. Stefan cel Mare nr 11, 700064 Iasi, Romania

Legal status: n/a

Podnikovohospodárska fakulta so sídlom v Košiciach. Ekonomická Univerzita v Bratislave

Name: Podnikovohospodárska fakulta so sídlom v Košiciach. Ekonomická Univerzita v Bratislave

Address: Tajovského 13, 040 13 Košice, Slovakia

Legal status: n/a

ERNACT EEIG

Name: ERNACT EEIG

Address: Unit 150, CoLab, LYIT, Port RoadLetterkenny, Co. Donegal, Ireland

Legal status: n/a

Cambridgeshire County Council

Name: Cambridgeshire County Council

Address: CC1218, Castle Court, Castle Hill, CB3 0AP Cambridge, United Kingdom

Legal status: n/a

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Summary

Project name (EN): DIGITAL COOPERATIVES

Project acronym: E-COOP

Project start date: 2012-01-01

Project end date: 2014-12-31

Project status: closed

Total budget/expenditure: EUR 2 240 104.00

Total EU funding (amount): EUR 1 759 014.64

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2007 - 2013 Interreg IVC

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2015-09-01

No. of projects in keep.eu / Total no. of projects (% of projects in keep.eu)

204 / 204 (100%)

No. of project partnerships in keep.eu / Total no. of project partnerships (% of project partnerships in keep.eu)

2 250 / 2 250 (100%)

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DIGITAL COOPERATIVES

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