OSIRIS

Identifying and implementing actions to improve the use of the European Regional Development Fund and other regional development policy instruments, using co-creative processes with the involvement of stakeholders in seven European countries, to develop, share and exchange good practices focused on open social innovation processes.

The Autonomous Province of Trento has set up participative activities and opportunities to exchange good practices to improve the use of resources of the ERDF Operational Programme 2014-2020in the specific field of the valorisation of public information assets, with a focus on Open Data practices.

The project included two phases:

• 2016 - 2018: drafting of an Action Plan to influence the policy instrument identified by each partner;
• 2018 - 2020: monitoring the impact of the Action Plan on regional policies.

The final phase of the project was impacted by the pandemic, which did not stop some in-person activities planned for spring 2020. In order to capitalise on the savings incurred, an extension of the project (October 2021 - March 2023) was approved to detect theimpact of the COVID emergency onopensocial innovation practices in support of regional development policies.

The Autonomous Province of Trento worked on the co-design experience of the platform RipartiTrentinoplatform, the portal that during the pandemic enabled the communication and delivery of contributions to enterprises. The project analysed the results of the user involvement experience in the design of the digital solutions implemented.

Overall objectives 2016-2020 of the OSIRIS project

• toimprove, through the exchange of knowledge and experience, the performance of European regional policy fund management instruments;
• foster the creation of regional innovation ecosystems as a stimulus for territorial growth and job creation;
• share good practices among the European regions involved in the project in response to citizens' needs;
• enhancing co-creative processes within PA through the involvement of politics, research, industry and civil society.

Local 2016-2020 objectives of the Trentino working group

• to support, through theintervention on policies related to European regional development funds, new projects concerning data driven economy and Open Social Innovation with the involvement of the local ecosystem
• strengthen the capacity to transfer to the market the results produced by investments in the research sector, by setting up a system of co-creation and open innovation.

Overall objectives 2021-2023 of the OSIRIS project:

• Evaluate the activities conducted in the context of the pandemic, examining the possibilities of using Open Social Innovation in the context of the ecological and digital transition;
• to share experiences regarding the resilience actions conducted and the impact of Open Social Innovation in the various sectors of regional development (health, energy, culture, tourism and digital transformation of public administrations) through the organisation of interregional exchange events and study visits;
• disseminating and communicating good practices in policy, research, industry and civil society through a series of international webinars on the project's official YouTube channel.

Objectives 2021-2023 of the Trentino working group

• take stock of the technological, organisational and communicative experience of the RipartiTrentino platform and draw guidelines for the design of communication platforms with citizens and enterprises based on user experience
• identify a territorial good practice of response to the pandemic with strong involvement of territorial stakeholders;
• organise a study tour in the Trentino area to share the experience of Dolomiti Paganella Future Lab implemented by theAPT Dolomiti Paganella;
• organise a webinar to disseminate and communicate good territorial practices of open social innovation.

Part One 2016-2020:

2016

• 31 May-2 June: kick-off meeting in Lycksele (Sweden)
• 3-5 October: 1st co-creative meeting in Vaasa (Finland) on'Energy-Green-Sustainability'.
• 13-15 December: 2nd co-creative meeting in Fundão (Portugal) on the theme"New education and training systems for emerging jobs".
• September-December: initiation of contacts with local stakeholders Trentino Sviluppo e FBK

2017

• January-February: collaboration agreement with FBK and Trentino Sviluppo to accompany the ERDF Calls for Proposals 2017 - 2018
• 21-23 March: 3rd co-creative meeting in Prešov (Slovakia) on"Mobilization of creative industry through Open Social Innovations".
• 14 May, in Trentino: the OSIRIS project at the Siamo Europa event
• 25 May, in Trentino: regional stakeholder meeting
• 31 May-2 June: 4th co-creative meeting in Lyksele (Sweden) on the theme"Cities and sparsely populated areas in symbiosis".
• 4 September, in Trentino: Staff Exchangetraining day for public administration employees of the European partners on the theme"Data driven economy".
• 4-7 September, in Trentino: 5th co-creative meeting in Trento on the theme"Data driven innovation and territorial growth".
• 13-15 December: 6th co-creative meeting in Drenthe (Netherlands) on the theme"Building on local power".

2018

• 30 January, in Trentino: event of training for local stakeholders"ChatBot, opportunities for companies and public administration".
• 2-3 March, in Trentino:"Open Data Hackabot 2018", event with local stakeholder group on the occasion of Open Data Day 2018
• 15-17 May: 7th co-creative meeting in Patras (Greece) on the theme"Research-Innovation-Entrepreneurship".
• 13 June, in Trentino:"New markets and new data-driven professions", seminar for public service managers
• 13 June, in Trentino:"New markets and new data driven professions", seminar addressed to public service managers;"Data and markets: trends and opportunities for data driven business", workshop addressed to local stakeholders and first sharing of the Action Plan draft
• September: final draft of theAction Plan for each project partner
• 8-11 October: workshop "From Action Plan Design to Implementation" at theEuropean Week of Regions and Cities in Brussels, concluding the first phase of the project

2019

• 11-13 September: study visit in Fundão (Portugal),"Action! Action plans andpilot actions', the second phase of the project begins, with the monitoring of the implementation of the Action Plans and pilot actions

2020

• 10 September: Final conference "Open Social Innovation for regional development".

Extension 2021-2023:

• 29 October 2021: kick-off meeting online
• 24 March 2022, in Trentino: 1st regional stakeholder meeting, focus group to deepen the participatory design experience of the RipartiTrentino platform with the operating group and users
• 27-29 March 2022: partner meeting in Trento on the theme"Resilience to the pandemic: adapting and innovating".
• 6-8 July 2022: partner meeting in Visby (Sweden) during theAlmedalen WeekNational Festival of Democracy
• 29 September 2022, in Trentino: 2nd regional stakeholder meeting with the involvement of accountants and trade representatives for a usability test of the new institutional portal and business services

85% from the ERDF, 15% from the National Revolving Fund

Part One 2016-2020:

• Action Plan 2019-2020 'Enabling the meeting between supply and demand of data';
• identification and development of 7 good practices by European partners. The Autonomous Province of Trento presented the project Open Data Trentino;
• "Open Data Hackabot", organised in 2018 and 2019, involving researchers, students, businesses and public administration for the development in 48 hours of 12 Proof of Concept of chatbots starting from challenges launched by the PA;
• "Chatbots, opportunities for companies and the PA", an event with local SMEs held on 30 January 2018.

Extension 2021-2023:

• Final report"Digital Co-Creation in Pandemic Conditions: Evaluation Survey", by Åbo Akademi University Experience Lab, the project's Finnish partner, describing the results obtained through the combination of a cross-regional online questionnaire and seven semi-structured interviews conducted in order to assess the transformation of participatory/co-creative processes during the pandemic;
• identification and development of 5 good practices by European partners. The Autonomous Province of Trento presented the project Dolomiti Paganella Future Laba participatory process promoted by the APT Dolomiti Paganella with the objective of defining a balanced long-term tourism development vision together with the community;
• cycle of 5 webinars to disseminate knowledge and good practices acquired through interregional exchange experiences, to help understand theimpact of Covid on regional development and to support the ecological and digital transition. The Province, on the occasion of the partner meeting held in Trento from 27 to 29 March 2022, proposed the "Resilience to the pandemic: what we have learned - experiences of adaptation, innovation and co-creation from the Autonomous Province of Trento", in collaboration with Hub Innovation Trentino the Edmund Mach Foundation;
• final report"How pandemic resilience has impacted on digital transformation. What we can learn from the experience of #RipartiTrentino. Digital interaction with enterprises in the emergency" edited by Dr. Alberto Zanutto and the result of the in-depth study conducted on the RipartiTrentino experience through the implementation of twelve interviews and the listening of a focus group (1st stakeholder meeting on 24 March 2022);
• usability test of the Province's institutional portal (2nd stakeholder meeting on 29 September 2022), which involved 25 local stakeholders, including civil servants and users of digital services, accountants and category representatives (report available at this link).