Funded Projects 2014-2020
Project ARCTIC PACER
| Project Acronym | ARCTIC PACER |
|---|---|
| Project Title | Arctic Public Services Innovation Cluster |
| Project subsite |
Summary
Public services provision in remote and sparsely populated area is becoming a common challenge in Arctic territories. Factors such as low-density populations, long distances and other physical barriers, youth out-migration and shortage of human and material resources are putting the public service providers in high pressure to deliver quality and sustainable services.
ARCTIC PACER addresses this challenge by clustering 5 projects to explore innovative solutions for participative, user-centred, quality and sustainable digital public services in Arctic regions.
The involved projects present complementarities that will allow to tackle more complex use cases using their expertise with huge potential application in this field:
- EMERGREEN focuses in the introduction of new emerging technologies and shared solutions
- @geing online stresses on the importance of involving end-users in the development of meaningful digital services
- BitStream II explores innovative business models for citizen centric public services
- CYNIC aims to facilitate test environments for SMEs to develop new digital services
- IMPROVE puts community at the centre as part of the solution to co-produce public services
Overall the project gathers more than 30 partners from over 20 regions in 7 countries including Finland, Sweden, Norway, Iceland, Faroe Islands, Ireland and Northern Ireland.
By clustering these projects we will be able to:
- Explore new integrated solutions for complex public services delivery
- Involve and get contributions from wider range of relevant stakeholders and target groups
- Build up new partnerships to find further solutions to the topic addressed
- Increase the visibility of the participant projects allowing them to reach new audiences and disseminate the achievement at both levels, jointly as a cluster and as individual projects.
Objectives
- Explore innovative solutions for participative, user-centred, quality and sustainable digital public services in Arctic regions
- Create synergies among complementing projects resulting in stronger partnerships able to define solutions for complex public services delivery in the Arctic communities
- Wider disseminate the role that digital technologies, new business models and co-creation with your community (both citizens and businesses) may play in the provision of quality and sustainable public services
Lead Partner
- European Regions Network for the Application of Communications Technology (ERNACT)
Ireland
Jose Manuel San Emeterio
phone +353 74 916 8212
e-mail: jsanemeterio@ernact.eu
Partners
- Luleå University of Technology
Sweden - University of Umeå
Sweden - Åbo Akademi
Finland
Project Info
| Theme ICT, connectivity |
| Priority 1 Innovation |
| Objective 1.2 Increased innovation in public service provision |
| Project duration 31-12-19 to 30-12-20 |
| Total budget 35 450 EUR |
| NPA co-financing 29 250 EUR |
| Target groups infrastructure and (public) service provider higher education and research EEIG, EGTC local public authority regional public authority enterprise, including SME General public |
| Joint Secretariat Desk Officer Rachel Burn |