Description of the collaboration Neteland is a collaborative service delivery arrangement between five Flemish municipalities. Collaboration is viewed as a key mechanism to increase the efficiency of public service delivery in the region and to groom the involved municipalities to better tackle potential future challenges local governments will have to deal with. In accordance with…

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Description of the collaboration The procedure for obtaining a driver’s licence in Hungary involves multiple interactions with both governmental and non-governmental agencies. In the light of the country’s e-governance strategy, the collaborations around the creation of driving licences have been reformed with legislation that came into force on 1st of February 2021. The objective is…

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Description of the collaboration The development of electronic solutions for many aspects of daily life has turned the deployment of optical fibre into a crucial matter, including in remote, mountainous and lightly populated territories such as the Région Sud in France. These characteristics make the deployment of optical fibre difficult and economically unprofitable. To address…

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Description of the collaboration Although Hungary, as a country with a centralized public administration maintains national professional fire services, recent policy changes brought a large increase in the number of volunteer fire brigades, and an enhancement of their competences.   Figure 1: Number of volunteer fire brigades in Hungary. Source: Bérczi (2020) and Freedom of…

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Description of the collaboration © RKG Agder website: https://www.ehelseagder.no/rkg-e-helse/ The Regional coordination group eHealth and welfare technology Agder (RKG), was established in 2016. It is a project-based network with a unique structure which gathers health professionals and healthcare workers at the regional level in the Norwegian county of Agder. RKG aims at implementing welfare technology, sharing experiences,…

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Description of the collaboration Against the backdrop of burgeoning public deficits and pressing infrastructure challenges typical of a rapidly growing population, in 2013, the district of Groß-Gerau in the German federal state of Hesse, adopted inter-municipal collaboration (IMC) as a key approach for sustainability and prosperity of its 14 member cities and municipalities. Since then,…

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Description of the collaboration The PoWalCo (Plateform wallonne de coordination des chantiers) online platform is a digital tool that aims at facilitating collaborations among actors such as utility companies and public authorities who work on roads and waterways in the Walloon Region in Belgium. Through the online platform, actors can exchange information about the planning,…

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  © TeleCare Nord, 2015, p. 45. Description of the collaboration TeleCare Nord was initiated in January 2012 by the Region of Northern Jutland in Denmark. The collaboration focused on telemedicine for patients suffering from Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD). The project ran to June 2015 and was the first full scale project with telemedicine…

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© Colourbox Aim and Scope The case of  ‘work practices’ in Estonia is a service targeted at people out of employment for a long time or with no earlier working experience, allowing them to benefit from learning and acting in a group, and helping the long-term unemployed to keep up their motivation, and to find…

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© Colourbox Aim and Scope Fair Start Scotland (FSS) is the Scottish Government’s voluntary employment support programme that aims to help the long-term unemployed (more than two years), with complex and enduring health needs, improve their employment opportunities. It aims to provide a tailored, coherent range of support, which can respond flexibly to meet the…

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