Digitalisation for the Green Deal: 27-28 February 2020
Training objective
The overall objective is to enable Commission staff to identify the opportunities and challenges of digitalisation intervention in their geographic area and with a strong relevance to the green deal. They should be able to identify the actors and discuss with them about the needs for investments and regulations. It will also do so by providing participants with an opportunity to receive guidance from HQs colleagues and various opportunities for exchange, sharing and learning from existing practices (best practices and lessons learnt). The participants will gain an overview of what opportunities technologies and digitalisation can offer to the circular economy and to green growth and jobs. Possible challenges of digitalisation such as e-waste, impact on energy consumption and more general data protection, privacy and ethical questions will be discussed. Through examples of different uses of new digital technologies such as smart energy and efficiency, environmental monitoring, precise agriculture, use of drones for reforestations, digitalisation for solar and wind powered renewable energy, etc. digital transformation as an enabler for the green deal will be analysed.
Target audience
Staff in EU Delegations and Headquarters’ staff, in particular those tasked with the preparation of programming and project activities in sectors that could mainstream digitalisation, as well as participants from the Environment and Climate Week taking place from 17th to 21st February 2020 in Brussels.
Location: Brussels, Belgium
Date: 27/02/2020 to 28/02/2020
Training materials:
Presentations - Digitalisation for the Green Deal
Literature - Digitalisation for the Green Deal