[Air-L] Call for Participation for Digitranscope Spring Institute 11-15 May 2020 in Fiesole (Florence, Italy)

[Marina Micheli]

*Call for Participation for** Digitranscope Spring Institute *11-15 May
2020 in Fiesole (Florence, Italy) *extended through February 15th, 2020.*

*DigiTranScope
<https://ec.europa.eu/jrc/communities/en/community/digitranscope>* (Digital
Transformation and the Governance of Human Society 2018-2020) a research
project of the JRC (Joint Research Centre), Centre for Advanced Studies
<https://ec.europa.eu/jrc/en/research/centre-advanced-studies>, at the
European Commission, focusing on the governance of digitally transformed
human societies. The project aims to provide a deeper understanding of key
aspects of digital transformation to help policy-makers address the
challenges facing European society over the next decades.

Core Topics of the Spring Institute will be:

   - *Data Governance:* This is a key battleground to find a European way
   to Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Digital Transformation. We need to find
   new ways of sharing data between the public sector, commercial sector, and
   civil society so that the value created out of data analytics and new
   algorithms is redistributed more equitably across all stakeholders to the
   benefit of European society.
   - *New Forms of Policy Design, Policy Learning:* This is a topic
   exploring how we can develop new forms of more participative policy design,
   monitoring, feedback/assessment, learning loops that exploit the
   characteristics of digital transformation including, smart cities, gaming,
   digital twins, and personalisation.
   - *Digital Empowerment and Social Inequalities:* How can we
   develop/design/foster a new path exploiting the benefits of digital
   transformation so that it is aimed at reducing existing social, economic,
   and spatial inequalities rather than exacerbating them? What is the role of
   local data ecosystems and co-operatives, and in general more geographically
   diversified policy measures, in tapping into the intrinsic characteristics
   of European regions and cities?



If you are interested in participating in the *DigiTranScope Spring
Institute*, please send (i) an abstract (up to 500-word) of your research
relevant to the topics highlighted above, together with (ii) a short BIO/CV
(up to 300-words), and (iii) a motivation letter (up to 300-words) to*
massimo.craglia at ec.europa.eu
<Massimo.Craglia at ec.europa.eu>*

*Abstract submission deadline: **15 February 2020*

*Acceptance/rejection notification: *1 March 2020

*Scientific Committee:*

Dr Max Craglia, Dr Marina Micheli, Dr Igor Calzada, Jiri Hradec, Dr
Gianluca Misuraca

[European Commission DG Joint Research Centre (JRC), Ispra, Italy]

Prof Henk Scholten [Free University of Amsterdam, Netherlands]

Dr Cristina Capineri [University of Siena, Italy (local organiser)]

*Format*: The Spring Institute is about critical thinking and mutual
learning in a multi-disciplinary environment. It is “slow food for thought”
as inspired by the slow food movement, of which practical tasting will be
daily experience. It will encourage informal sharing and constructive
feedback, focusing on participants’ research projects, ideas, and critical
and interdisciplinary perspectives around the pivotal applied digital
social sciences practices and theories.

*Venue*: Fattoria di Maiano <http://fattoriadimaiano.com/>, Via Benedetto
da Maiano, 11, 50014 Fiesole (Florence), Italy

*Nearest airports and railway station:* Florence and Pisa; Florence,
respectively.

*Language:* English

*Number of Participants (max): *30

*Who should attend*: PhD candidates, post-doctoral researchers,
policymakers, and practitioners from inter-disciplinary backgrounds coming
from the academia, industry, government, and civic society who are
interested in exploring the trends and related societal challenges of
digital transformations in the governance of future societies.

*Fees*: No registration fees. Lunch provided but participants will have to
pay for their own accommodation and travel and evening meals. A number of
hotels and a camping site are available in Fiesole or surroundings.


*More information
about Digitranscope project:
https://ec.europa.eu/jrc/communities/en/community/digitranscope
<https://ec.europa.eu/jrc/communities/en/community/digitranscope>  *

*For questions, feel free to get in touch with
me: marina.micheli at ec.europa.eu *


Thank you and best wishes,

Marina Micheli and Max Craglia

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MARINA MICHELI, PhD

Scientific Project Officer

European Commission

DG Joint Research Centre

Centre for Advanced Studies (JRC-CAS)

Via Fermi 2749,
21027 Ispra (VA), Italy

Office: 46i 014
Tel: +39.0332.78.6148

Mail:marina.micheli at ec.europa.eu