"<< Background >>Digital and Green topics are currently essential for society, in general, and municipalities and cities in particular. These topics represent an area to be dealt with and a challenge to be faced. Digital and Green topics are interconnected, interlinked and depending on each other. Effectively implemented within the operations of communal public bodies, digital solutions can lead to and be a means for reaching green goals. **Digital and green topics become more and more critical for higher education, even for the non-technical study programmes. Study programmes of public administration, management, policy, and other related study programmes, focused on profiling graduates who may become employees of municipalities and cities, should be improved with an educational concept, a knowledge base and a curriculum able to convey digital and green skills. **Municipalities and cities, as self-government public authorities, apply digital and green concepts based on in-house developed solutions or using external solutions. More experienced municipalities and cities with a better background and potential in digital and green solutions can naturally be an example for other municipalities and cities. The exchange of digital and green communal practice between municipalities and cities, especially at the international level, is vital and needed for the ongoing green digital transformation. **DiGreen aims to support the international exchange of Digital and green good practice between municipalities and cities. **DiGreen aims to tackle digital and green skill gaps in higher education and municipal practice. The incorporation of digital and green learning in higher education, where this is not a primary focus and in municipal practice, where there is the need for practical use of such knowledge, are targeted. **DiGreen gives a strong emphasis on the involvement of practitioners working at the municipality and city public bodies, who may be a left-out group regarding digital and green skills.<< Objectives >>DiGreen aims to provide professionals working in the municipality/city self-government public bodies and young citizens (students) with a framework to exchange knowledge and digital and green good practices. DiGreen will provide a crosscutting teaching and education DiGreen concept together with a multidimensional curriculum. **DiGreen will facilitate the exchange among an international network of municipalities and cities, municipalities’ employees, universities, research institutions and communal practitioners on learning about green digital skills and other environmental and digital issues. **The general objective of the DiGreen project is to establish a transnational collaboration between partners involved and apply innovative approaches for addressing their target groups. **DiGreen has four specific objectives: - Specific objective 1: To establish a network of universities, research institutions, municipalities and cities sharing common values regarding green and digital transformation. - Specific objective 2: To establish a knowledge hub on digital and green agenda by collecting a database of good practice examples and producing easy-to-read handbooks on these topics.- Specific objective 3: To identify digital skills needed in the participating countries and set up an appropriate curriculum.- Specific objective 4: To identify existing knowledge level and awareness on the green European agenda and develop green sectoral skills strategies and methodologies.<< Implementation >>DiGreen activities and leaders aim to address critical elements that the European Commission has formulated: strengthening digitalisation of public administration and transition to the green economy.**A1. Co-designing and developing the handbook of digital good practice (Eurac Research, Italy). Partners will build a knowledge hub for stakeholders’ involvement and awareness-raising on digital good practice. The digitally provided public services identified will include good practice on how to rationalise the provision of competencies that the municipalities and cities own, examples on how to engage citizens in governance, ways to enhance the provision of public services, how to base public policymaking on evidence, how to take transparency and openness into consideration when providing public services.**A2. Co-designing and developing the handbook on green good practice (IWE - Romania). Partners will build a knowledge hub as a support structure for stakeholders’ involvement and awareness rising on green good practice, linking the digitalisation of public services provision and climate-neutral objectives within municipalities and cities. According to the EU’s Green Deal action plan, the partners will showcase the interconnection of tools using ICT and innovative approaches towards the transition to the green economy.**A3. Creating an interdisciplinary educational and life-long learning knowledge base (University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria). All partners will work to identify the needs of the target groups to improve their digital and green skills and to determine the ways for the practical application of e-government tools for implementation of green agenda.**A4. Setting up a multidimensional DiGreen Curriculum (Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice, Slovakia) Will support both educational institutions and local administration organisations and produce a ready to use “Multidimensional DiGreen Curriculum” for professional development.**A5. Organising Multiplier events in which the results of the previous activities will be disseminated and used. The partners will pay special attention to establishing the means of communication to allow the active involvement of all the stakeholders in the essential activities of the project and to ensure that the decision-making process is as open as possible.**A document repository will be set up for DiGreen to upload and record results, working documents, meetings and scheduled attendance to events. This virtual library will allow each partner to monitor progress regularly. An updated schedule for the work within the planned activities will be regularly posted in the repository. Conference calls, e-mail and web exchange will be the primary tools for internal communications and discussion. ICT will be an essential tool to overcoming spatial barriers for good internal and external communication. Physical meetings will be organised unless the COVID-19 restrictions are still in force at the same time. DiGreen partner organisations will perform various activities for sharing the project results beyond the partnership, such as participation in conferences, workshops and round tables in connected areas to the project’s theme, extensive dissemination through social media account and project website.<< Results >>DiGreen will generate four main RESULTS:R1. Handbook of DIGITAL good practice – cities and municipalities as the source for viable solutions.R2. Handbook of GREEN good practice – cities and municipalities as the source for viable solutions.R3. Crosscutting teaching and education DiGreen concept.R4. Multidimensional DiGreen Curriculum. **The handbooks will provide viable solutions for the green and digital transition. The Handbooks will contain good examples of digital and green public services delivered by municipalities and cities using ""in house resources"" or external resources. They will show how to rationalise the provision of competencies that municipalities and cities should have, engage inhabitants in governance, enhance the quality of public services, base public policymaking on evidence, and take transparency and openness into consideration when providing public services. The Handbooks will be produced in hard copy and electronic format in English and the partners' language. The online version will be available on the project website and supplemented by interactive tools, such as videos, visualisations and valuable links.**The ""Crosscutting teaching and education DiGreen concept"" will be an interdisciplinary educational and life-long learning knowledge base that will develop knowledge and skills on digitalisation and climate neutrality. It will focus on students who aspire to work for a municipality or city and the employees of these entities, especially those disadvantaged. Interconnecting public management, public policy, eGovernment, smart city, transparency, openness, sustainability, and knowledge in digitalisation and climate neutrality will ensure its interdisciplinarity. Professionals already working in a municipality or city will develop their digital and green skills to fulfil their tasks in a changing environment. It will have a printed and a digital version, available on the project website in English and short versions in the partners' languages.**The ""Multidimensional DiGreen Curriculum"" will be developed in a multidimensional way for higher education either as a stand-alone course or incorporated into existing courses. The aim is to provide well-balanced content, which non-technical study programmes across different countries can use. It will focus mainly on understanding the digitalisation of the society, on international comparison and analysis of the digitalisation of the society and climate neutrality in public policy. It will also centre on the skills for the digital present and future of students and employees. It will provide evidence of good practice at cities and municipalities, using digital and green tools. Will promote civic engagement and digitalisation as a means for transparency and openness. The curriculum will encompass the scope, methods, course-load, recommended study level, conditions for course completion, learning outcomes, the course outline and the recommended literature. The curriculum will be produced in electronic format. It will be available online, in English and the national language of each partner. **OUTCOMES:- Strengthening existing cooperation between consortium partners and including new partners;- Providing more attractive educational and training programmes for the target groups;- Increasing the capacity and readiness of public institutions' employees, students and citizens to deal with the digital and green transition by co-creating those programmes;- Increasing knowledge and awareness on crosscutting teaching and education DiGreen concept by establishing a knowledge hub on digital and green for the target groups;- Promoting education and life-long learning at local and European levels;- The network of municipalities and cities directly involved in the project will exchange experiences and good practice and serve as good examples in digitalisation and climate neutrality across Europe."