New trends in digital regulation

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Dates

24/06/2025 - 26/06/2025

Location

EUI campus, Florence

Programme

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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 Organisation for the 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

Pier Luigi Parcu

Director

Centre for a Digital Society

Director

Centre for Media Pluralism and Media Freedom

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Antonio Capobianco

Deputy Head, Competition Division

OECD

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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

View Anna Renata Pisarkiewicz profile

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

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 1^st June 2025.
There will be no return of fees for cancellations after 1^st June 2025.

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