Regions to stay – digital innovations for local development

Our workshop explores how digital innovation can strengthen territorial cohesion, demographic resilience and sustainable development. Bringing together diverse experiences from different regions across Europe, it highlights how tools like digital twins, AI and e-government support data-driven planning, inclusive governance and smart strategies that empower people to stay, thrive and engage locally. By addressing depopulation, access to services and economic transformations (including those shaped by evolving tourism patterns and international events), the session will show how digitalisation, rooted in public interest and regional values, can be a powerful enabler of the right to stay.