AI4Gov-X

AI4Gov-X has launched a funding call to help motivated learners across Europe make the most of its official training activities, so that financial circumstances never stand in the way of taking part.

If you’ve been accepted to or enrolled in an AI4Gov-X extracurricular activity and need support to cover costs, this call is for you. It reimburses 50% of eligible travel, accommodation, and registration fees, capped at €5,000.
Five application cut-off dates are planned between 30 June 2026 and 28 February 2027 — choose the one that fits your timeline.

Check your eligibility and apply via the link in bio. 👇

We are proud to announce that our first Call for Financial Support to Third Parties has opened, with nearly €1 million available to help European students access the AI4Gov-X learning opportunities.

If you're a student or eligible intern building skills in AI, data, or digital government, AI4Gov-X wants to make sure cost is not what holds you back.

The call covers two tracks:

Objective 1: up to 50% reimbursement of travel, accommodation, and participation costs for official AI4Gov-X extracurricular activities

Objective 2: grant that can double the stipend or salary for MagiX master’s students holding an internship contract

Both tracks are capped at €5,000 per beneficiary. Applications are fully online via the GoodGrants™ platform, with five cut-off dates running from 30 June 2026 to 28 February 2027.

More information and application links here:
https://ai4gov-x.eu/bid-to-our-open-calls/

Join a growing European community of digital government practitioners! 🇪🇺

Submissions are now open for the Digital Government Track at HICSS-60, one of the longest-running venues for research on digital government.

Our Scientific Director, Gianluca Misuraca, is one of the Lead Chairs of the minitrack on AI & Data Governance, which explores how public administrations can responsibly design, test, deploy, and adapt AI and data-driven systems over time.

The minitrack welcomes rigorous empirical, theoretical, and practical contributions on topics including algorithmic governance, fairness, transparency, data governance, public participation, and institutional approaches to AI in the public sector.

Researchers and practitioners working on AI in government, data governance, and digital transformation are invited to submit their work.

📄 Learn more: https://hicssdg.ctg.albany.edu/60/AI%20and%20Data%20Governance%20Minitrack/

🎉 MagiX is officially launched.

Last Friday, Madrid was the backdrop for a milestone moment in AI4Gov-X’s journey. MagiX is the first master’s programme in Europe to bring together Artificial Intelligence, Data Spaces, and Digital Government Transformation in a single, coherent learning journey, built specifically for civil servants and public-sector professionals. 38 partners. 20 countries. 12 months of work, and hundreds of conversations with the people who actually shape public services across Europe.

After more than a year of work, this was the day it all came together.
The launch was led by Alessandro Deserti (Politecnico di Milano) and Claudio Feijoo (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid), before giving way to a rich panel discussion on “Upskilling the Civil Servant of the Future”, moderated by Gianluca Misuraca.
Panelists Gabriela Viale Pereira, J. Ignacio Criado, Pilar Torres, and Roel Dobbe brought perspectives from across academia, industry and public administration, a reflection of exactly the kind of cross-sector dialogue that MagiX is built around.

At its core, MagiX is about one thing: equipping today’s and tomorrow’s civil servants with the skills to lead government transformation, not just keep pace with it. Because digital change in the public sector doesn’t happen through technology alone. It happens through people.

The official unveiling took place following our third consortium meeting, and brought together academics, policymakers, practitioners, and alumni from AI4Gov, a community that has been part of this story from the start.

This is only the beginning. Follow AI4Gov-X to stay close to what comes next — and there is plenty coming.
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Tomorrow we’re hosting an open event in Madrid, and it’s one we’ve been looking forward to for a long time.

After two days of consortium meetings at IE University, we’re throwing open the doors to announce MagiX: the AI4Gov-X Master in AI, Governance Innovation & Digital Transformation. Europe’s first programme of its kind, designed from the ground up for public sector professionals navigating a world increasingly shaped by AI.

Anna Barbara, our Project Coordinator, will open the floor alongside Irene Blázquez Navarro, Director of the Center for the Governance of Change at IE University.

Then Alessandro Deserti (Politecnico di Milano) and Claudio Feijoo (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid), the Co-Directors behind the educational programme, will walk us through what MagiX actually is and why we built it the way we did.

We’ll close with a panel conversation that gets into the harder question: what does it really take to prepare civil servants for the AI era? Not just tools and technology, but data governance, accountability, and institutional change. The panel will be moderated by our Scientific Director Gianluca Misuraca, and Gabriela Viale Pereira (University for Continuing Education Krems), Juan Ignacio Criado (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid), Pilar Torres (AMETIC), and Roel Dobbe (Delft University of Technology) bringing perspectives from across academia, industry, and government.

27 February, 13:00–14:00 CET
IE Tower, Madrid

More on the programme in the weeks to come.

Register here: https://www.eventbrite.es/e/launching-magix-tickets-1983271912679

📍 On February 5th, the Public Law OrganisEPLO - European Public Law Organization, a valued partner of , conducted a stakeholder roundtable on "Advancing Digital Transformation in the Public Administration in the era of Artificial Intelligence (AI)" in Athens.

The Scientific Director of AI4Gov-X, Gianluca Misuraca, joined the conversation and talked about how the project is working to speed up the use of AI and bring about long-lasting by teaching people new skills and improving their existing ones.

The roundtable touched issues like:

💠Learning and skills for that uses AI
💠 How ready institutions are for government transformation
💠 Information about new frameworks that will help the civil servant of the future.

🌍 As AI plays a growing role in public decision-making, one question matters more than ever: how do we build systems that make people in government stronger, not weaker?

In an article for Stanford Graduate School of Business, Michael McDowell explores why human-centred AI design matters and how education and skills determine whether AI enables meaningful change in government or introduces new risks.

A worthy read for anyone considering a future in public service, and for those thinking about the skills public administrations need to lead change.

🔗 Read more: https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/insights/designing-ai-keeps-human-decision-makers-mind

⏳ Last call to apply to be an Associated Partner!

This is the final opportunity for organisations to join the AI4Gov-X initiative, advancing , , and the skills needed by civil servants of the future.

To apply, submit a short Expression of Interest (EOI) outlining your organisation, a contact person, your motivation, and how you can contribute.

📩 Send your EOI to [email protected]

⏳ Deadline: 31 January 2026 (23:59 CET)

🔗 More information: https://ai4gov-x.eu/call-for-associated-partners/