CEPCEP is a strategic partner in the MEDICI project

The Center for Portuguese Speaking Peoples and Cultures (CEPCEP) of the Universidade Católica Portuguesa is a strategic partner in Medici - Mapping Digital Inclusion, a European project developed over two years, identifying and bringing together good practices for digital inclusion in the 27 EU Member States and the UK. 

MEDICI has six international strategic partners - Universidade Católica Portuguesa (CEPCEP), UNIR, The Tavistock Institute, Smart Bananas, KETHEA and DIESIS - whose competencies allow the achievement of the following objectives:

  • Develop and disseminate a catalog and interactive map of good practices for digital inclusion in Europe that illustrate what exists locally, regionally, nationally and internationally;
  • Identify areas where there are no initiatives, contributing to the reflection of public policy strategy in support of digital inclusion;
  • Contribute to a greater understanding of evaluation effectiveness and replicability, around what 'works best' based on evidence from digital inclusion practices;
  • Connect stakeholders to consolidate existing knowledge and experiences in a common effort to eradicate digital exclusion;
  • To facilitate the exchange and sharing of knowledge between private and public institutions and civil society actors, creating a Knowledge Community around Digital Inclusion.

This project, through its platform, aims at a better integration of vulnerable groups at risk of digital exclusion, creating 3 products/services:

  • A catalog and interactive map of local, regional, national and European good practices for digital inclusion, providing structured and searchable information on various parameters: vulnerable groups, geography, results, impact and replicability.
  • A knowledge community that, working as a network, supports, reviews, compares, shares and transfers experiences and knowledge around good practices of digital inclusion through: webinars of the Discussion Forum and the Digital Inclusion Stories space.
  • A set of tools and collaborative learning activities: the evidence digest - good practice reports; the podcasts - expert conversations; the online surgeries - workshops on evaluation and replicability and the videos of key concepts, all accessible to members of the MEDICI network and stakeholders of the digital inclusion ecosystem.

In this platform, the Call for Good Practices is taking place until December 31, which intends to aggregate all digital inclusion projects in this European mapping.

In 2021, between January 26 and 28, the International Conference "Digital Inclusion For All" will take place.

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