Country: Spain

In 2020, Barcelona Alumni’s global virtual platform was launched to leverage the network of international talent educated in Barcelona but residing abroad and contribute to feeding scientific evidence into the local policy-making process. By connecting international experts and local challenges, this first-of-its-kind digital platform provides a pioneering approach to policy-making, making it more crowdsourced, evidence-based, replicable, scalable, accountable, and transparent.

The "miDGT" mobile app allows citizens to carry a digital version of their driving license and vehicle's registration and technical certificates, as well as receive alerts and news of interest, make payments of fines or taxes and access digital services. It is the first time a digital mobile driving license or registration certificate is issued in Spain, and it helps create an ecosystem for personalized mobile services for citizens to interact with, thus simplifying bureaucratic procedures.

Vilawatt aims to move the energy transition forward in Viladecans through an innovative governance structure where citizens play a key role. The project has set up a public-private-citizen partnership (PPCP) that manages 4 key services: energy supply (100% renewable origin); consulting & training to increase energy awareness & energy culture; energy retrofitting of buildings; new local currency linked to energy savings.

Adaptación de las actuaciones que las oficinas de empleo han ofrecido a las personas demandantes de empleo en esta situación de pandemia y confinamiento, así como en su posterior vuelta a la normalidad, de manera que ni las limitaciones a la movilidad ni el cierre de las oficinas a la atención al público perjudicaran la atención a nuestros/as demandantes de empleo. Las medidas puestas en marcha han sido: -Automatización de la renovación de la demanda de empleo: Petición realizada a los…

El Departamento de Educación, Cultura y Deporte, consciente de la gravedad de la situación creada por la propagación del coronavirus, afrontó la puesta en práctica de un plan de actuaciones que ayudasen a mitigar los efectos de la misma. Las claves de esta actuación han sido: 1.1. Compartir experiencias desarrolladas en los centros educativos aragoneses que pretendían ayudar a proporcionar a alumnado y familias recursos complementarios del currículo. 1.2. Trasladar mensajes que…

El 12 de marzo aún no sabíamos la dimensión que iba a tener la crisis del Covid-19 pero en el LAAAB (Laboratorio de Aragón Gobierno Abierto) sí intuimos la envergadura de la ola social que se iba a desencadenar, por lo que sentimos el deber de crear un dispositivo que canalizara toda esa energía de solidaridad ciudadana. Decidimos que fuera un espacio abierto (a emprendedores, activistas, organizaciones sociales, gobiernos, makers…) y no institucionalizar una respuesta. Tenía que ser…

The Spanish Armed Forces are cooperating with the national health authorities in order to equip 16 hospitals given a quick response to the need of increasing the health capacities. In this context the main contribution of the Armed Forces is providing engineer assestment to build up hospital centers and health techical support, as well as to carry out logistics and transportation tasks.

The General Directorate of Civil Protection and Emergencies, in collaboration with the Spanish Red Cross, has launched the #YoHagoPorTi campaign, aimed at promoting behaviours that foster solidarity with the neighbours who need it most: elderly, sick or disabled people. In this campaign, we are encouraged to mobilize for them. The 10 essential actions are proposed to protect ourselves and protect them, as well as promoting the initiative of maintaining telephone contact with elderly people or…

Unique approach capable to get MASS (million people) and LEGAL (GDPR) knowledge of the flows and mobility of the population of any city, for a control of confinement and a correct de-escalation process. It is allowed to know in real time the capacity and mobility in the main public areas, transportation systems, buildings (high accurate in both outdoor or indoor scenarios), with the possibility of detecting real-time breaches of de-escalation and confinement rules at any moment. Simultaneously,…

The Madrid City Council has decided to transform the Decide Madrid platform into a channel of citizen participation through which residents can submit solidarity initiatives proposals that can help improve the current situation.