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On March 21st, Claire Fornoville, PhD researcher, participated in the Expert Commission on the German Public Corporate Governance-Model Code (Expertenkommission Public Corporate Governance-Musterkodex) in Frankfurt, Germany, chaired by Professor Ulf Papenfuß. In the context of Claire’s comparative research on the accountability of state-owned enterprises, she exchanged on the German approach to public corporate governance of government-owned enterprises.   #dpcgm #accountability #SOEs #goodpublicgovernance

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📣 On Tuesday, April 16, 2024, the Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information was published #Metadata related to the conduct and communication of #research should always be open 🥁 ➡ https://lnkd.in/d-WvxNHi This includes, but is not limited to, (1) #bibliographic metadata; (2) metadata about #researchsoftware, #researchdata, #samples, and #instruments; (3) #funding and #grant information; and (4) information about #organizations and #researchparticipants. At SIRIS Academic we are strongly committed with the #BarcelonaDeclaration because we believe that #open #research #information is fundamental to more #transparent, #inclusive and #responsible #science and #policy-making. For this reason, we are proud to have hosted the workshop where the #BarcelonaDeclaration was conceived. It is great to see how many organizations have decided to step forward and take the lead for this #change. Only through a collaborative but truly committed approach can we make this transition sustainable and reliable. In this context, the fact that funders and governments are also taking responsibility for supporting this transition is particularly important. Kudos to Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Fundació Catalana per a la Recerca i la Innovació NWO (Dutch Research Council) ANR, the French National Research Agency Fundación Josep Carreras contra la Leucemia Région Normandie Regione Toscana ZonMw. Hopefully, other funders and governments will soon join in and actively contribute to this transition 📍 Let's continue to move this forward in the spirit of the Barcelona Declaration and look forward to hearing more in the upcoming webinars and seminars!

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🚀 Bridging the Gap: Civic Tech & GovTech + Public Sector Synergy 🚀   Despite their innovation potential, GovTech startups and civic tech organisations often fail to cooperate with the public administration. In a recent workshop by ÖFIT - Kompetenzzentrum Öffentliche IT, four central challenges for cooperation were identified: 🧠 Mindset Mismatch 📋 Competing Priorities 📐 Lack of Standards 🏢 Tricky Procurement Processes And the good news? The workshop resultet in an actionable plan to overcome these obstacles, featuring solutions and policy recommendations straight from the experts. 🚀📈 Read and download the full action plan here (only available in German): https://lnkd.in/e4xX7kd7 #StartupBerlin #CityofCooperation #CityofEnablement

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💭 What would an Intersectional Feminist Foreign Policy (#IFFP) approach to EU external action look like? We Effect has contributed to EU CONCORD 10 principles for Intersectional Feminist Policy-Making for #EU external action. With these principles, we aim to open a discussion about how the EU can balance power and address inequalities through its external action, and to warn against sidelining gender transformative and right-based approaches to external action. 👐🌍 ⚙ Pursue gender transformative and systemic change ⚖ Correct power imbalances ❌ Counter colonial continuity 👐 Embrace interectionality ✊ 'Nothing about us without us' - prioritise inclusion and representation in decision-making 🤝 Foster collaboration and inclusion in international relations 💡 Ensure cross-cutting and coherent policies 🗣 Protect, promote and respect human rights and civic space 📈 Advance sustainable development Read the full report here 👉 https://lnkd.in/dazUp2W3 ursula vonderleyen EU-CoE Youth Partnership Oxfam EU office Plan International EU Office CONCORD Sverige ActionAid IPPFEN Assistant Maria Johansson

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✨ Exciting News! ✨ We are thrilled to present the highlight of our project: the Methodological Toolkit! 🌟 🚀Developed from our work with 12 EU functional areas under the project launched in by DG REGIO and the World Bank, this toolkit supports all EU functional areas, no matter their stage of development. 🚀Structured around six building blocks — strategic focus, territorial focus, governance and administrative capacity, cross-sectoral integration, funding and finance, and monitoring and evaluation — the toolkit offers a wealth of practical tools, insights, and targeted recommendations for improving governance, coordination, planning, and implementation processes beyond jurisdictional boundaries. The toolkit aims to inspire and guide functional area governance bodies, along with national and other subnational actors (local, regional, and national policymakers, managing authorities, and intermediary bodies) in applying the functional area approach, to drive sustainable territorial development. https://lnkd.in/dW27SDBy

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Digital Transformations and Climate Change: Futures, Infrastructures, and Data Dennis Eckhardt and Kathrin Eitel would like to invite you to submit an abstract for their special issue on «Digital Transformations and Climate Change: Futures, Infrastructures, and Data».This issue aims to investigate how digital processes and climate change interact with and influence each other. To achieve this, they invite contributions for an open-access issue in the Kulturanthropologie Notizen (peer-reviewed + OA). They encourage submissions that adopt a cultural anthropological and STS perspective, underpinned by ethnographic insights that scrutinize futures, infrastructures, and data. Multimodal approaches to the topic are welcome. Abstracts with a length of 300 words can be submitted to Dennis Eckhardt (dennis.eckhardt@fau.de) and Kathrin Eitel (kathrin.eitel@uzh.ch) by May 15, 2024. https://ka-notizen.de/

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3 take aways from the great conversation: i. #AIforGood in health should really mean directing investment in what matters: prevention>treatment; healthcare>chips. Today the balance *is the opposite. #NVIDIA market capitalization is equivalent to that of 165 healthcare companies... ii. There are great applied examples in radio, portable ECG or healthcare access with chatbots (w/o forgetting covid vaccines). #FF Microsoft Health Futures, Telefónica Tech eHealth, or Innit & Roche iii. (UNESCO) Ethical Impact Assessments are coming. Gabriela Ramos Natasha Crampton Amanda Craig Deckard Joaquina Salado Sabastian V. Niles Alejandro Anderlic Eugenio Minvielle

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😀 🎉📢 The working paper on assessing conditions for #socialinnovation in #rural areas IS OUT! You can read it here: https://lnkd.in/efTF38Y3. Rural social innovation is distinctive due to the barriers it addresses. The research highlights unique features, such as how land management approaches can foster local innovations. It also emphasizes the significant roles of #civilsociety, #socialentrepreneurs, and the #elderly in driving social innovation in rural context. Often underrecognized, social innovation empowers #localcommunities to take action and experiment. The paper proposes a framework to #measure the conditions that support social innovation, focusing on elements around : Behaviors / Laws and regulations / Policy framework / Community actors / Available resources. A heartfelt thanks to the wonderful colleagues and friends who supported this journey, including Gorgi Krlev, Melis Aslan, Antonella Noya, Amal CHEVREAU-BAHIJ, Michelle Marshalian, Karen E. Maguire and the many inspiring social innovators we spoke with in Scotland and other parts of the world.

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Today, Spatial Foresight together with t33 Sound Policy, ÖIR GmbH and The Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies (wiiw) organised a seminar on the ERDF evaluation of crisis response instruments. This seminar is part of the evaluation of Cohesion Policy programmes 2014-2020, financed by the ERDF and commissioned by DG REGIO (European Commission). We discussed and validated the preliminary findings, as well as drew preliminary conclusions and lessons for future crises and the post-2027 programming period.

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🧩 Do you know how to improve accessibility to public services for people in vulnerable situations and at risk of exclusion? Join the #OECD Gov2Gov Innovation Incubator ➡️ team up with #Spain.     Spain's Junta de Andalucía is seeking to advance the public services digital transformation, leaving no one behind to achieve a closer, more human, and more inclusive administration. To further their mission, we’re calling for innovative government teams to join the incubator programme and support the regional Government of Andalusia with two interrelated challenges:     ⭕ How can we improve accessibility to public services for people in vulnerable situations and at risk of exclusion?       ⭕ How can we improve the accessibility of remote support services?        Do you want to team up? Learn more about this challenge, the team behind it, and how to join our incubation programme ⤵️Deadline ⌛7 June 2024    𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘫𝘦𝘤𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘴𝘶𝘱𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘣𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘦 European Commission’𝘴 #𝘏𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘻𝘰𝘯𝘌𝘶𝘳𝘰𝘱𝘦 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘮𝘮𝘦    #PublicServices | #DigitalTransformation | #PublicSectorInnovation | #Incubator

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As I travel back from DeGEval - Gesellschaft für Evaluation e.V.’s Methods Working Group (AK Methoden) meeting on "Preconditions for successful Impact Evaluations", I am reflecting on some insights... My key take-aways: 💡 The methodological quality of an evaluation depends, among other things, on the timing of the evaluation, the quality of the ToR and linked to this the appropriateness of the evaluation design to answer the evaluation questions. (I hope I got this right.) Check out this publication by Stefan Silvestrini: https://lnkd.in/ewvj3XDZ 💡 Different methodological approaches to Impact Evaluation come with different notions of causality. The successionist view, which is based on a counterfactual logic of causal inference, is one among others and probably still the predominant view. Mechanism-based as well as configurational causality are other notions. In those views, causal inference is done through within- and between-case analysis. (PS Check out this seminal publication by Stern et al. on broadening methods for Impact Evaluations: https://lnkd.in/e5mz45WA) 💡 Qualitative Comparative Analysis (between-case) and Process Tracing (within-case) are highly context-aware approaches. They allow finding out what works, how, why and under which conditions. On the other hand, RCTs and other experimental or quasi experimental approaches allow to quantify and unequivocally attribute impact (while completely controlling for context). Every methodological approach has its pros and cons. 💡 The step from evidence production and access to evidence use is challenging. Long-term partnerships, local capacity as well as improving organisational cultures and incentives are required. The TRIPS model can help to guide a strategy towards more evidence use. Check out this open access book chapter by Marie Gaarder on International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie)'s journey: https://lnkd.in/ePeZeDGm Thanks a lot for the great organisation, facilitation and putting together such a rich event, Dr. Alexander Kocks and Dr. Franziska Heinze 👏

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#ALCkit ⚙️ | We share 5 keys for you to better understand the multiple differences – and benefits – of Developmental Evaluation compared to traditional evaluation systems. In our last article we address #DevelopmentalEvaluation based on our theory of change; a continuous evaluation system for ecosystem mapping processes, listening, collective interpretation of information and co-creation of an experimentation portfolio in real-time. Read the full article here: https://lnkd.in/dNKZtP53

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'Diversity means lifelong learning', says Janina Fischer, Diversity Commissioner at GIZ. She is a driving force behind #diversity issues at our company and works with us to promote a #corporateculture in which all forms of diversity are recognised and valued. Read the interview to find out how we have already changed together with our employees and why we are convinced that diversity pays off for everyone. https://lnkd.in/d68M-JyS #Diversity #Diversity connects #Inclusion #CulturalDiversityDay

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Together with Professor Dr. Christoph Safferling and Dr. Pablo Gavira Díaz and Rodrigo Nunez from HiiL | User-friendly Justice, we had the opportunity to present on the #Nuremberg–Benchmarks at the #ICC_ASP Study Group on #Governance. The key point is that international criminal justice currently lacks a measurement system, which is essential for monitoring progress in this field. These benchmarks will provide #states with an overview of justice needs, assist #NGOs in monitoring justice at both the ICC and national levels, and help the International Criminal Court streamline its goals and enhance transparency. Ultimately, this will contribute to the satisfaction of #victims. The implementation of a benchmark system at the ICC is crucial. Additionally, the length of proceedings, although a small part, is still included in the benchmark system published by the International Nuremberg Principles Academy. ➡ Read more about the report here: https://lnkd.in/enKuB35Z

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🌟 Let's shape the future of European education together! 🌟 At EENEE, we invite members and stakeholders in the education sector to share their insights for the Public Consultation on the EEA Interim Evaluation.🌍 📊 PPMI is currently conducting the Interim Evaluation of the EEA (2021-2030), covering the period 2021-2024, to assess its progress in the implementation and development. This evaluation, commissioned by the Directorate-General for Education, Youth, Sport and Culture (DG EAC), aims to gather insights on the relevance, effectiveness, efficiency, coherence, and EU added value of the European Education Area. 🗣️We welcome individuals and organizations with perspectives on the EEA to contribute to these consultations. 🗓️ The consultation is open until June 27th. Share your views by clicking this link: https://lnkd.in/d2n22yMV or visit our website for more information: https://eenee.eu/en/ #EENEE #EEA #Education #EuropeanUnion #PublicConsultation #PolicyAnalysis #Research #EducationPolicy #DGEAC

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#Postdoc #opportunity at Maastricht University School of Business and Economics. The position is part of an interdisciplinary team working on a project at the intersection of #PensionPlanning and #DigitalDecision support. The project's goal is to simplify long-term #FinancialPlanning for #pensions using #AppBased #digital #decision #support. This involves conducting #lab and #field #experiments in collaboration with pension funds and financial service providers. Ideal candidates should have:  📍 a background in #economics or #finance, with a keen interest in experimental research on #financial #DecisionMaking.  📍 skills in #project #management and collaboration with #industry partners are essential. 📆 Deadline: 05-05-2024 For more information and consultation, please contact via my LinkedIn account or Telegram: https://t.me/MAjavanmard #PostDoc #Finance #Business #Economics #PensionPlanning #DigitalDecisionSupport #ProjectManagement #MaastrichtUniversity #Netherlands #Diversity #Inclusivity #Opportunity #ImmigrationConsultant

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📚 New #OpenAccess Review in Knowledge Management & E-Learning Basel Hammoda (2024) The impact of educational technologies on entrepreneurial competencies: A systematic review of empirical evidence Link: https://lnkd.in/dMD9Xj5p Abstract: Researchers and educators have been exploring innovative methods in entrepreneurship education to address traditional approach failure at engaging students and developing their skills. Educational technology has shown promising results in early studies. Yet, there is a scarcity of reviews on their effectiveness in developing entrepreneurial competencies. This paper systematically reviews the empirical literature on the outcomes of educational technology used to teach entrepreneurship at higher education institutions. From an initial 316 search hits, 26 articles were selected for in-depth review. The learning outcomes were translated into entrepreneurial competencies, using the EntreComp Framework as a reference. Findings show that educational technologies, in general, positively impacted entrepreneurial competencies, especially financial & economic literacy, motivation & perseverance, and initiative taking. Gaming and simulations were the most researched, having an overall positive influence, while online learning and MOOCs showed limited and sometimes contradictory effects. The study fills the scholarly gap by connecting educational technology, entrepreneurship education, and entrepreneurial competencies. It provides a basic mapping linking each educational technology to the competencies it develops and advocates for a competency-based pedagogy in the delivery and assessment of entrepreneurship education. Educators can apply the findings and the mapping developed in this study to design and deliver entrepreneurship courses, incorporating educational technologies more insightfully and effectively in their pedagogies. Keywords: #EntrepreneurshipEducation #EducationalTechnology #EduTech #CompetencyBasedEducation #SystematicReview #EntrepreneurialCompetency Tallinn University of Technology TalTech – Tallinn University of Technology

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#NetMundial+10 has started with a packed room. Some key messages that resonated with me: - Rodrigo De La Parra shared concern about multilateral processes on digital governance that do not enable full participation and reminded us that even if attempt to make decisions in a non-multistakeholder way, no actor can do it alone - Susan Chalmers challenged us to consider how the multistakeholder principles apply to the complementary, yet different processes of internet governance and digital governance - Luciana Santos, Brazil’s Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation emphasized the importance of digital inclusion, and the role of multistakeholderism as means to deliver on ongoing digital governance processes.

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