As part of GovTech Connect, we will run a series of boot camps for startups aimed at identifying innovative solutions across European regions that address challenges regarding digital infrastructure, net-zero, health technology, and smart cities.

To define innovation challenges to be worked on in each GovTech Connect Boot Camp, will be hosted Challenge Definition Workshops for each of the four regions. These virtual and interactive workshops are a gathering of GovTech experts, EDIHs, and public officials from across the region, supported by collaboration tools to focus on identifying problem areas that could potentially benefit from tech-enabled, innovative solutions.

In March 2023 we hosted the first two GovTech Connect Workshops, to define the objectives and the challenge statements for the 2023 GovTech Connect boot camps.

Workshop 1: Achieving Net Zero - Supporting the green transition of services (Northern Europe & Baltics) was hosted on March 13th 2023, from 14:00 to 15:35 (CET) online via Zoom.

The goal of this workshop was to produce a set of concrete challenge statements considering net-zero in Northern Europe and the Baltics, to which startups could find innovative solutions over the course of the boot camps. Participants were provided with a list of challenge statements that they were then invited to analyse and prioritise through a poll conducted on Slido. Statements were carefully crafted by the project team based on insights and data collected during a research phase.

Read the report attached!