Showroom: Best Practice in Politics

Best Practice in Politics

We curate exemplary political work that successfully tackles today’s most pressing issues. This platform is a hub of tried and tested best practices in politics.

A Digital Date With Your Doctor

Routine visits to the doctor become a thing of the past in this Swedish locality with a digital service that relies on digital identification, SMS, and email.

A Farmers‘ Supermarket – Coeur Paysan

This is the supermarket where the notion of “eating local” finds its most accomplished form of expression; behind each product offered for sale there is a producer who commits himself and is present in the shop in direct contact with consumers.

Atlantic Economic Corridor

This initiative connects remote areas with different types of infrastructure, and is designed to promote investment, living, learning, and prosperity along the Atlantic coast region of Ireland.

Calliope Mini

A digital wizard tool provides various opportunities for schoolchildren to do their own programming and explore the world of bits and bytes.

City of Omegna Masterplan

The City of Omegna is working holistically to improve the town for the community, entrepreneurs, and the public sector.

Competent Teachers – Entrepreneurial Youths

A new entrepreneurial spirit is being fostered in schools in Finland with an entrepreneurship training that focuses on learning-by-doing, nudging teachers to keep a habit of lifelong learning.

Creative & Digital District Charleroi

A bottom-up plan aims at the revitalisation of a former industrial city through digitalisation, and the grouping of innovative minds to collect and execute ideas to reinvigorate the economy.

Creative Transformations

Small and medium-sized businesses in Lublin’s city centre are individually supported as the district is revived.

Crowdfund Angus

The local authority in a remote location backs a crowdfunding platform to appeal to faraway investors.

Digital Villages

Rural communities connect online through a development project that supports local businesses.

DigitalKidZ STEM Club

Modern educational methods are used to improve the digital and media literacy of young people in Bulgaria.

GovTech Lab

Emerging technologies from different innovative players are used to solve public sector challenges in Lithuania.

Helix (Newcastle)

Newcastle runs a project for innovative ideas in the form of a science and innovation centre that focuses on sustainable solutions for the city.

Hotel Village

A bottom-up tourist experience integrates tourist options in Ferla, in a system that lets different parts of the community benefit from renting out housing.

KMU DIGITAL – The Austrian Digitisation Initiative

An initiative, with 500 certified consultants, targets small- and medium-sized enterprises and helps them take concrete steps towards digitising their business.

Marketplace for Good Business, Bocholt 2017

‘Speed dating’ for non-profits and companies paves pathways of mutual support, exploring opportunities for cooperation without using payments.

Plymouth’s Social Enterprise Investment Fund

This initiative results from imaginative political leadership linked to key officer support, enhancing the already extensive network of organisations and individuals who work together to promote and grow social enterprise through coordinated investments.

Regional Investment Society

Citizens are encouraged to invest (even small amounts) in local businesses, allowing them to become more independent and promoting regional prosperity.

Regulatory Sandboxes

Innovation-friendly spaces are designed to test new digital technologies in real-life conditions, without risk to the public.

Robin Hood Energy – Nottingham

A council-owned utility firm combats disproportionate energy pricing in the private sector with renewable sources at an affordable price.

Salford Credit Union

Financial exclusion is countered by a supportive credit union in Salford, offering an alternative to banks and loan sharks.

Sweden’s First Social Impact Bonds

Private investors in Sweden are working with a local municipality to improve the lives of foster children with a novel financing method.

The Bristol Pound

A local and complementary currency keeps local money circulating in Bristol and the former County of Avon.

The Örebro Model: Housing for the Many

The market economy is instrumentalised to provide housing for people with lower incomes within the new estates of Örebro.

The Shop Tester – Testeur de Commerce

Dedicated test location: a commercial area designed to allow experimenting with new business concepts.

The Skill Mill Tallinn

Tallinn adopts Newcastle’s best practice Skill Mill model, connecting unemployed youth with local stakeholders.

Torino City Lab

A series of innovation labs in Turin focus on innovative solutions for problem-solving and improving the quality of life in an urban setting.

Villeurbanne At Heart

Structural changes and new methods of organising sponsorship and funding are implemented in within a system that connects local businesses with non-profit organisations and sports clubs.

Virtual Power Plant as a Local Joint Venture

As part of the energy transition towards fossil fuel free production, municipalities join up to create a local power supply company that allows the gradual move to generating and distributing renewable energy in the region.

Waterford Greenway

A hiking trail built along a disused railway line from Waterford to Dungarvan encourages new tourism in Ireland.