Digital Agenda Funding

Project Status: Live Project

Project Leader: Jose Manuel San Emeterio

EU Programme: Northern Periphery and Arctic (2021 - 2027)

Project Budget: €199,873

Start Date: Mar, 2026

Finish Date: Feb, 2027

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The aim of the project is to:

The overall objective is to enhance the capacity of public authorities and their communities to jointly shape and develop their territories. This will be done by clustering 3 complementary projects that take digital technologies and innovative methodologies as the foundation to actively involve their society in the definition and implementation of actions addressing their societal challenges and looking for sustainable, prosperous and resilient territories where people can live, stay and grow.

Specific objectives are to:

Enhancing institutional capacity of public authorities and stakeholders to implement macro-regional strategies and sea-basin strategies, as well as other territorial strategies.
Enhance the capacity of public authorities and their communities to jointly shape and develop their territories, by clustering three complementary projects that use digital. technologies and innovative methodologies to actively involve society in designing and implementing actions addressing societal challenges
Facilitate the adoption of digital innovations to enable communities to take an active role in addressing current challenges and shaping the future of their territories, by setting up and expanding a Community of Practice (initially formed by the three clustering projects and their stakeholder networks).

Donegal, Ireland
ERNACT Network(Lead Partner)
ERNACT will lead overall project coordination, acting as the main liaison between the NPA Programme and partners, and wi

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Southwest Finland, Finland
Savonia University of Applied Sciences(Partner)
SAVONIA, as lead partner of InnoGS, will drive collaboration between INCLUDE and InnoGS by gathering InnoGS knowledge, s


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Västernorrland, Sweden
Municipality of Härnösand(Partner)
HM will ensure collaboration by gathering and sharing knowledge, engaging partners and stakeholders in the CoP. HM will 


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Community of Practice action plan-A jointly developed action plan to sustain and expand the Community of Practice (CoP) beyond the project. It sets out roles/responsibilities, how to engage new territories, membership criteria, potential funding instruments, and mechanisms to influence relevant policy frameworks.
Community of Practice cooperation 15 organisations cooperating across borders through the INCLUDE Community of Practice (3 project partners + 12 associated partners) as the core transnational cooperation output.

The ERNACT regions focus on adapting and transferring services, approaches or digital knowhow between regions. Please examine the following table to see a list of specific items transferred over the past few years

INCLUDE addresses the shared challenge of unlocking communities’ potential to shape prosperous, sustainable and resilient territories by tackling key barriers such as skills gaps, limited participation of young people and minority groups in decision-making, the need for climate change adaptation, and the challenge of creating enabling conditions for place-based economies; its overall objective is to strengthen the capacity of public authorities and their communities to work together to shape and develop their territories.