ERUDITE

When the project began in 2016 all the partners in ERUDITE had successfully extended High Speed Broadband infrastructure to reach a significant numbes of urban communities and rural communities in their regions and enable all stakeholders to contribute and benefit from the digital economy and society. Our aim in the project was to create new community partnerships to create new services that would fully exploit the economic and social potential of these networks and respond to real public, private and community needs. ERUDITE partners have created these new services through a tailor made methodology combining open innovation and social return on investment processes which has enabled partners to build partnerships between businesses, citizens and public administrations, empowering them to innovate and plan together to optimise value and benefits.

ERUDITE has defined sustainable business models for digital service development and deployment by involving multiple stakeholders in design, delivery and ownership of services, reassuring investors by demonstrating wider and most importantly, measurable social, environmental and economic benefits

ERUDITE partners recognised that whilst digitalization and development of innovation capacity are essential elements of current policy instruments, the exploitation of new digital opportunities to support employment growth, quality of life and territorial attractiveness had been insubstantial. ERUDITE partners concluded that the development, design and implementation of effective digital services in Europe required an innovative re-thinking of all the processes involved in their creation and through integrating digital demand stimulation with digital education and training raising the capacity of all European communities to digitally innovate and deliver social and economic growth.

ERUDITE in 1 video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwjAneu9D9c

COVID-19 has accelerated the use, visibility and diffusion of digital tools and services; confinement measures have encouraged a long-term move to remote working, learning and e-services. This is of particular importance in rural and peripheral regions.

The ERUDITE consortium continues its 5-year work and undertakes an exchange programme to evaluate the impact of the crisis on the development and operation of digital services and develop measures to respond.