practitioner DEMO
AI for Local Government
What local government can and cannot responsibly automate, how to classify a use case, and how to write the obligations into a contract.
ESCA Academy / foundation
EU Accession for Local Governments
What accession requires of a municipality, in the three functions that decide whether allocations become contracts.
Learning outcomes
By the end of the programme, a participant can:
- Assess municipal procurement capacity against what the instruments require
- Build a project preparation pipeline
- Align financial control and audit trails before the first disbursement
- Plan capacity as infrastructure rather than as training
Who it is for
- Mayors and city managers in candidate countries
- EU integration officers
- Procurement leads
Faculty
Faculty for the next cohort is confirmed at least eight weeks before it begins and is published here. DEMO
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foundation DEMO
EU Funding for Cities
How the instruments actually differ, which one fits which project, and what each requires a city to be able to prove.
practitioner DEMO
Smart Procurement
Buying complex outcomes under EU procurement law without excluding the suppliers who could deliver them.