Digin Europe

Digital Inclusion in Europe marks a turning point in addressing the digital divide for all involved partners. All of them have already developed policies aimed at preventing, reducing, or compensating for the effects of digital inequalities within their populations, particularly among the most vulnerable and marginalized groups.
Because these policies often responded to social emergencies or were conceived afterwards to mitigate the effects of digitalization, they share common weaknesses: insufficient analysis of public needs, occasionally ad hoc nature, and difficulties in scaling up sustainably due to their initial design.
In this context, Digin Europe aims at gathering the experience and points of view of partners in Bordeaux Métropole(France), Attica(Greece), Podkarpackie Region(Poland), Zenica-Doboj (Bosnia-Herzegovina), Badajoz Province (Spain) and Vestland County (Norway) to learn and develop mutually new and innovative ways of improving their policies. Data-driven approaches will be key during the learning process, and will determine the added value of our project.
Particular focus will be put on how to reach out to new target groups for a more e-inclusive society, and how to improve policies to make sure vulnerable groups such as the elderly or low-income population are properly integrated in the digital society. In the context of the digital transition, e-inclusion is a pre-condition for social inclusion, and therefore the project will also tackle e-inclusion in specific areas such as the access to the labour market or to social services.
Digin Europe will have a strong interregional learning strand, with a number of workshops, peer-reviews, peer-learning activities and study visits. It will also ensure that the local stakeholders are properly involved and benefit from the interregional learning as well. This overall learning environment will be the ground in which active as well as monitoring tasks will lead to policy change for more e-inclusive societies