[Commlist] Governance of Digitally Transformed Societies Spring School

The *EU**Joint Research Centre*organises a *Spring School* for the 
project *Digital Transformation and the Governance of Human Societies* 
<https://ec.europa.eu/jrc/communities/en/community/digitranscope/news/call-participation-digitranscope-spring-institute-11-15-may-2020>*.*There 
are still a couple of days to apply. For any questions feel free to get 
in touch with (marina.micheli /at/ ec.europa.eu) 
<mailto:(marina.micheli /at/ ec.europa.eu)>or (massimo.craglia /at/ ec.europa.eu) 
<mailto:(massimo.craglia /at/ ec.europa.eu)>.
*Governance of Digitally Transformed Societies*
*DigiTranScope Spring Institute 2020* 
<https://ec.europa.eu/jrc/communities/en/community/digitranscope-digital-transformation-and-governance-human-society/event/digitranscope-0>
*Fiesole (Florence), Italy* *11-15 May 2020*
*Call for Participation*
*DigiTranScope* 
<https://ec.europa.eu/jrc/communities/en/community/digitranscope>is 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:*
·*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 are 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 the 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?
*Draft of the programme* 
<http://ec.europa.eu/jrc/communities/en/community/digitranscope/document/digitranscope-spring-institute-draft-programme>
https://ec.europa.eu/jrc/communities/en/community/digitranscope/document/digitranscope-spring-institute-draft-programme 

*List and short biographies of speakers and facilitators* 
<https://ec.europa.eu/jrc/communities/en/community/digitranscope/document/digitranscope-spring-institute-keynotes-and-facilitators>**(more 
TBA)
https://ec.europa.eu/jrc/communities/en/community/digitranscope/document/digitranscope-spring-institute-keynotes-and-facilitators 

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)* 
<mailto:(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 
<https://urldefense.com/v3/__http:/fattoriadimaiano.com/__;!!DOxrgLBm!U0eOtcCW9J5cG5z4wJrfVTsFNGUXc8IMnSArjX07svv_DoL92N2L0n_3WBg48G6MGC9VNnQ$>, 
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 civil 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.
https://ec.europa.eu/jrc/communities/en/community/digitranscope/news/call-participation-digitranscope-spring-institute-11-15-may-2020

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