A Digital Europe for Citizens. Constitutional and policymaking challenges.

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This project aims to enhance excellent teaching and research regarding Digital Europe and its constitutional and policymaking challenges. While fostering dialogue, discussion, and the exchange of ideas between different target groups and relevant stakeholders at local, national, and international levels, it focus on citizens. The project builds on the challenges, risks and developments that arise within the European Digital Strategy, the Digital Single Market and the European Data Space, while also focusing on Fundamental Rights, Digital Citizenship, Democracy and European Values, as well as Digitalization, Public Policies and Cybersecurity. The project's main activities include: i) a yearly open hybrid course on Digital Europe; ii) three modules integrating the courses of the three cycles of Law Studies at the Faculty of Law of the University of Porto and iii) a yearly International Conference and Conference Proceedings, in association with CIJE, and in the framework of the PhD Course Annual Seminar. As regards the project's beneficiaries, it will be addressed to higher education students (~95 p/y) from different fields of studies, as well as to other members of the academia, professionals, public servants and workers from the areas most affected by digitization (~85 p/y), besides the general public. Main outputs include pedagogical deliverables and scientific publications, and three Conferences Proceedings. Building on this, among expected results are: extended knowledge on the EU's action and regulatory framework as regards digitization; improved awareness and critical analysis by the target groups as to the potential and challenges of the digital revolution (mainly as regards fundamental rights, citizenship and the functioning of democracies). Finally, enhanced dialogue between academia and society, including local and state level stakeholders (policymakers, businesses), representatives of the different levels of education and the media.