Digital Bridges –Towards a more digital and inclusive participatory societies in South-Mediterranean region: interdisciplinary Master’s degree in digital governance.
Digital Bridges is a 36-month international project that aims a develop and implement an interdisciplinary master’s curriculum to train future professionals in digital governance, civic tech, and digital policy. With partners from 3 EU and 6 South-Mediterranean higher education institutions, plus NGOs, the project addresses the evolving “onlife” reality—where digital and physical spheres merge. Responding to global calls for digital transformation, Digital Bridges equips students with the academic and practical skills needed for emerging roles such as digital government analyst and civic-tech manager, fostering inclusive, participatory, and tech-informed public sectors across diverse geopolitical contexts.
Data di inizio: 01-11-2025 End date: 30-10-2028
Codice progetto:
Contributo EU: 797.949,22 EUR
Programme and Key Action: Erasmus+
Azione chiave:Capacity Building in the field of Higher Education
Tipo di azione: ERASMUS-LS
PARTNER DEL PROGETTO:
- Tallinna Tehnikaullikool [EE] Coordinator
- Universita Degli Studi di Roma la Sapienza [IT]
- Universidad de Santiago de Compostela [ES]
- Mine Vaganti NGO [IT]
- Al-Quds University [PS]
- University of Sousse [TN]
- Univerite Cadi Ayyad [MA]
- The Palestinian Center for Research and Development [PS]
- Universite Ibnou Zohr A Agadir [MA]
- Universite de Kairouan [TN]
- Palestine Technical University – Kadoorie (PTUK) [PS]
Argomenti del progetto:
ERASMUS-EDU-2025-CBHE-STRAND-2
GRUPPI TARGET:
- Students
- Ildministrative staff
- Ricercatori
- Academic staff
Project OBJECTIVES:
- To support the design of an aligned labour-market cross-sectorial masters degree curriculum (120 credits) in digital government to be delivered by South- Mediterranean region HEI’s addressed to bachelor students
- To support the HEI’s academia in designing innovative CV’s and contents aligned with the societal changes and digital transformation, fostered by the advent of new technologies (i.e. AI)
- To improve HEIs administrative and technical staff competencies in the management of innovative curricula and stable interconnections among different stakeholders
- To facilitate the opening of new research threads and HUBs focusing on digital government competences in the South-mediterranean region
- To facilitate the access of young graduates to High-quality education and to the labour market
Project RESULTS:
Work Package 2: [Research &Analysis]
D2.1 Comparative Research Report
D2.2 Scientific paper
Work Package 3: [Master degree Technical CV & training materials development]
D3.1 Master’s degree Programme structure and contents
D3.2 Online master’s degree contents
D3.3 Toolboxes
Work Package 4: [Piloting & Consolidation]
D4.1 Piloting report
D4.2 Scientific paper
Work Package 5: [Onboarding and establishment of the living labs]
D5.1 HUBs agreements
D5.2 Project works
ATTIVITÀ DEL PROGETTO
TPM #1:
N° di partecipanti -18
Kick off meeting where the partners will discuss the project plan, establish the boards, planning the next activities, from a financial and management perspective
TPM#2:
N° di partecipanti – 18
The partners will meet in M9 to evaluate the project’s progress and plan the next steps
TPM#3:
N° di partecipanti -18
The partners will meet in M18 to evaluate the project’s progress and plan the next steps
TPM#4:
N° di partecipanti -18
The partners will meet in M27 to evaluate the project’s progress and plan the next steps
TPM#5:
The partners will meet in M36 to evaluate the project’s progress and plan the sustainability of the project; In the framework of the Final meeting, a final conference is planned to present the project’s results
Study Visits:
N° di partecipanti -2 per each SMHEIs
Taking place in M20, professors and non-teaching staff from SM HEIs will be travelling to the respective EU HEIs to be hosted for seminars, conferences, shadowing practices
Promotional and onboarding event:
N° di partecipanti -10 minimum per event
Each partner will implement the promotional and networking event throughout the project’s (every 3 months) with the aim of onboarding stakeholders
Final Conference:
N° di partecipanti -50
A final dissemination conference will take place in all the partners countries during which the project’s activities and results will be presented, at the presence of the members of the HUBs, piloting classes and stakeholders involved
