AIMS TO MAP AND SHARE PRACTICES

integrating vulnerable and disadvantaged groups in the digital society across 27 EU Member States and UK.

MEDICI PROJECT
OBJECTIVES
  • developing and disseminating an interactive catalogue of good practices and online map of Europe to illustrate the already existing practices at local, regional or national level across European countries.
  • identifying areas where yet no such initiatives exist.
  • connecting stakeholders so that they can consolidate existing knowledge and experience in common effort to eradicate digital exclusion.
  • facilitating knowledge exchange between the public, private and civil society actors. creating a sustainable Digital inclusion Knowledge Community.
CONTEXT
The MEDICI project built its objectives in response to consistent trends (studies carried out by Commission’s Joint Research Centre over the last few years on digital inclusion) such as:
  • the implementation of policies and interventions aimed at supporting digital inclusion, has been slow, sporadic and unevenly distributed;
  • most interventions have no or limited evaluation results, and there is a poorly-developed evaluation culture and evidence base in the field on ‘what works’ linked to the over-representation of ‘civil sector’ organisations and ‘intermediaries’ as key drivers of innovation in digital inclusion- that have limited evaluation skills and resources
  • few interventions have been scaled up and out
  • diffusion of practices, innovations and results; knowledge transfer and stakeholder collaboration has been limited.
MEDICI TOOLS
The MEDICI project facilitates and supports knowledge exchange and replication of good practices among the stakeholders involved in the digital inclusion ecosystem , with the hope to contribute to bridging the "digital divide" affecting in particular the vulnerable groups of society. It does so by providing:
  • Map and Catalogue
  • Online Community
  • Learning Opportunities


PARTNERS

We are seven core project partners reflecting a geographically diverse spread of countries (IT, ES, EL, PT, BE, UK), skills and expertise that is well-suited to achieving the objectives:

MEDICI is a two year European project aiming to develop and disseminate widely the existing best practices for integrating vulnerable and disadvantaged groups in the Digital society across the 28 EU member states.

“This project is co-funded by the European Commission. The contents of this publication are the sole responsibility of the partnership and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the European Union.”

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