Public Private People Partnership Digital Innovation Hub

By project CODIL

Published on 19 January 2024

Slovenia

About this good practice

4PDIH operates within the University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, in a partnership with the Association of Municipalities and towns of Slovenia and the Ministry of Public Administration.
The Digital Innovation Hub Slovenia is launching tools on how to predict the jobs and
competences needed in the forthcoming years. As such, we deal with the
challenge as a whole–by both re-qualification and upskilling of existing workforce, but
also by developing new study programs to produce workforce necessary for the
digital age.
Among those interventions is the support of the Public Private People Partnership Digital
Innovation Hub – 4PDIH, which serves as a one-stop-shop for digital transformation and
digital competence development.
The aim of the 4PDIH is to create awareness and provide services to grow digital
competencies, share digital experience and case studies locally, regionally and
internationally, and support the government to adapt regulation and open its data to
foster entrepreneurship.
4PDIH provides, connects and supports knowledge, business and technology expertise,
technologies, experimental environments, best practices and other activities to fully enable Slovene industry, public administration and communities in building digital competencies, innovation models and processes and support their digital transformation.

Resources needed

4PDIH is funded through direct contacts and SME involvement in EU funded projects. The amount required to run the practice takes 3 employees/year, 3.500 €/month. It is estimated the service to include 15 collaborators (management, equipment, dissemination, experts),with an app. funding of 500.000 €.

Evidence of success

4PDIH was awarded the WSIS Prize 2021. It is also a member of more than dozen international initiatives. Its success lies in the active strategic partnership of more then 20 key partners representing the innovative environment, communities support, business enterprises and knowledge institutions. 4PDIH services can be applied in different environments, and can serve as a model to other regions interested to design a comprehensive DIH that address multiple digitization challenges.

Potential for learning or transfer

This is a good practice of human-centered digital transformation with potential to be transferred to other regions, interested in the establishment of DIHs, which are in particular focused on tackling digitalization in the widest sense possible–4PDIH covers all areas of science and technology including social sciences and the humanities, addressing digital transformation by deploying trans-disciplinary expertise.
The key successful factors are involvement of key stakeholders with specific role in digital transformation and complementary target groups, the effective management of existing resources (human and capital) as well as an active participation to local and national policy makers, and to other EU projects and initiatives.
Since November 2019, 4PDIH has got the acknowledgment from Ministry of Public Administration and Association of Municipalities and Towns of Slovenia as an efficient model to be followed when addressing efficient digital transformation of public administration.