Facing increasingly complex challenges and tight budgets, the public sector needs and seeks to innovate. Changes towards more collaborative ways of working, or developing new approaches from service design to delivery can be found in many administrations. New needs, new agents, new ways of communication and new governance models to avoid bureaucracy and excessive control are high on the public/political agenda. This PSI ‘lab’ in cooperation with NESTA and Design for Europe will pave the way towards more strategic and systematic approaches to innovation using real case examples. This will include the reform potential of digital technologies, improved access to services, co-design and co-creation, involving citizens and/or businesses in new service designs and/or modernisation processes, as well as diverse means of innovation management.
Participants will actively apply and be familiarised with two different leading practical innovation methodologies – design thinking and innovation strategy approaches – to gain inspiration and tools that can be applied to their own national, regional or local contexts. These interactive workshops will be accompanied by first hand examples of public sector innovation showcased in the European Public sector Award (EPSA) – the European network of public sector excellence generating valuable know-how and vital results.
For more information, please see seminar programme and registration package.
EU Commission
Austria
Belgium
Denmark
Italy
Luxembourg
Netherlands
Norway
Sweden
Switzerland
Province of Limburg
City of Maastricht
