
Dates
24/06/2025 - 26/06/2025
Location
EUI campus, Florence
Early Bird
Early bird discount until 20 April
Programme
Registrations deadline
01/06/2025
Level
Advanced
Delivery mode
Residential
Digital technologies are disrupting the way in which public agencies and regulators work. First, Artificial Intelligence (AI) opens new opportunities for government institutions, streamlining their work and enhancing their capacity to monitor market developments and firms’ compliance with the relevant regulatory framework. Second, regulators are increasingly required to share data with each other, which requires finding a delicate balance between data sharing needs and data protection safeguards. Moreover, as communication markets become more integrated into the broader digital market, regulators face new challenges in carrying out their mandates. Finally, public agencies are increasingly called upon to cooperate with each other in the context of designing national digital strategies and related regulatory approaches, such as regulatory sandboxes.
The course is designed to empower regulators and public officials from different government institutions with a comprehensive understanding of how digitalisation affects their work. It targets senior officials from national regulatory authorities as well as public institutions with at least 5-10 years of working experience. The course, jointly organized by the Centre for a Digital Society (CDS) and the Secretariat of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), will be held at the Badia Fiesolana, a stunning 12th-century monastery located on the outskirts of Florence, which hosts the European University Institute (EUI) campus.
In view of the partnership between EUI-CDS and OECD, the course combines top-notch academic experience with real-world policy challenges. Following a multi-disciplinary approach in law and economics, the course includes a plurality of learning activities, such as country case studies, group exercises, online preparatory activities, and provides ample opportunities for networking among the participants. To this regard, the course aims at bringing together public officials from different sectors and different countries in the world to discuss and understand the common challenges faced in the contest of the on-going digitalisation process.
Finally, the course participants may also attend, free of charge, the Summer Conference titled Digital Sovereignty in a post-Globalised World which will take place on 26 – 27 June 2025.
Scientific organisers
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Pier Luigi Parcu
Director
Centre for a Digital Society
Director
Centre for Media Pluralism and Media Freedom
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Marco Botta
Deputy Director
Centre for a Digital Society
Adjunct Professor
University of Vienna
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Anna Renata Pisarkiewicz
Research Fellow
Centre for a Digital Society
Faculty
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Marco Botta
Deputy Director
Centre for a Digital Society
Adjunct Professor
University of Vienna
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Danielle Borges
Research Associate
Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies
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Katarina de Brisis
Deputy Director General, Department of National digitalisation policy
Ministry of Digitalisation and Public Governance, Norway
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Gerald Hopster
Coordinating senior for monitoring and strategy
Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens
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Alexia González Fanfalone
Head of the Connectivity Services and Infrastructures Unit
OECD
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Natalia Menéndez González
Research Associate
Centre for a Digital Society
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Pier Luigi Parcu
Director
Centre for a Digital Society
Director
Centre for Media Pluralism and Media Freedom
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Anna Renata Pisarkiewicz
Research Fellow
Centre for a Digital Society
DAY 1, 24 June 2025: Artificial Intelligence in Regulation
Lectures:
Introduction to generative AI
The role of AI in regulation
Monitoring the responsible use of algorithms – case study on The Netherlands
Group exercise
Visit Palazzo Buontalenti
DAY 2, 25 June 2025: Data in regulation
Lectures:
Evolving role of data protection authorities and their interaction with other regulators
G2G data sharing
REGULATORY ROUNDTABLE: Establishment of a Data Unit
Group exercise
DAY 3, 26 June 2025: New Regulatory co-operation and adaptation in an evolving connectivity landscape
Lectures:
How can we improve national and international regulatory cooperation?
How can we improve regulatory co-operation and adaptation in an evolving connectivity landscape?
Designing a national digital policy: case study on Norway
- Compare how Artificial Intelligence affects the work of regulators and public institutions.
- Identify the role of data sharing and data protection rules in the work of government institutions.
- Appraise new regulatory approaches in the digital age, such as the importance of networks of regulators and regulatory sandboxes.
- Analyse how regulators are adapting to face the challenges stemming from digital transformation.
In addition to these learning outcomes, you will also:
- Exchange insights and expertise with fellow participants from diverse sectors and countries.
- Expand your professional network.
- Officials from competition authorities.
- Officials from telecom regulatory authorities.
- Officials from data protection authorities.
- Officials from financial regulatory authorities and central banks.
- Government officials responsible for coordinating the national digital policy.
At the end of the course, participants who have regularly attended the residential course program will receive a ‘Certificate of Participation’.
The certificates is granted by the European University Institute, a leading post-graduate research centre founded in 1972 by the Member States of the European Union.
Attendance in the Florence Digitalisation Summer Conference is not compulsory to obtain the Certificate of Participation.
Participation fees
- Early bird discount (25% discount) – Registration and payment received before April 20, 2025: 1,500€.
- Standard course participation fee – Registration and payment received before June 1, 2025: 2,000€.
- Discounts for multiple enrolments from the same institutions: for the third and additional participants from the same organization: 1,500€ per participant.
Participation fees include:
Online resources
- Before the course, access to the preparatory materials stored on the EUI training platform.
- After the course, access to the classes’ video recordings stored on the EUI training platform.
Residential activities
- In-person participation to the training course on 24-26 June 2025.
- In-person participation to the Florence Digitalisation Summer Conference, Digital Sovereignty in a post-Globalised World.
- Participation in social activities (welcome cocktail on 24 June and dinner on 25 June)
- Coffee breaks and lunches.
Participation fee does not cover travel and accommodation costs in Florence.
Cancellation Policy:
- Fifty per cent (50%) of the fees paid will be returned when registration is cancelled before 1st June 2025.
- There will be no return of fees for cancellations after 1st June 2025.
Up to 4 scholarships available
The EUI Widening Europe Programme offers up to 4 scholarships to support the participation of selected applicants to the training course New Trends in Digital Regulation.
Each scholarship will provide € 800 to help cover travel expenses and accommodation for a stay of 5 nights in Florence for the selected participants. The grant amount is contingent on course and final conference attendance. A daily signature will be required, and any absences will reduce the grant—specifically, €200 for each missed day.
Please note that this scholarship does NOT cover the course tuition fees.
Eligibility conditions:
- Applicants must have citizenship and be residents in one of the Widening Europe countries – i.e. Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Greece, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Albania, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, Moldova, and Ukraine.
- Applicants must be public officials who are ALSO affiliated with an academic institution in a Widening Europe country (e.g., students currently enrolled in a master/doctoral program; postdoctoral researchers, lecturers, or professors).
The scholarship application deadline is May 4, 2025.
Applicants should send their applications via email to digital.society@eui.eu. Each application must include a CV, proof of residency/nationality, and documentation of their affiliation with an academic institution based in a Widening Europe Country.
Participants will be informed about the selection results by mid-May 2025. After being selected for the scholarship, the applicants should complete the course registration form and the payment of the tuition fee at the latest by 1 June 2025.