The Digi-B-Well consortium is pleased to announce the publication of three major deliverables that mark an important milestone in the project’s efforts to support healthy, efficient, and sustainable digital transformation across Central Europe. Submitted on 28 November 2025, these documents bring together extensive research, cross-country collaboration, and innovative design work carried out by project partners representing academia, public authorities, and SMEs.
CE Digitalisation Transnational Strategy
The centrepiece of this release is the Final Version of the Central European Digitalisation Transnational Strategy, a comprehensive roadmap designed to guide organisations in navigating digital transformation with a strong focus on digital well-being.
The strategy integrates findings from group interviews and focus groups conducted across the participating countries. Despite national and sectoral differences, the results revealed a notable degree of convergence regarding both the requirements (“what”) and the implementation processes (“how”) of the eight-point roadmap included in the strategy.
At the same time, the analysis identified meaningful differences between academia, public authorities, and SMEs, particularly in how each sector approaches specific activities within the roadmap. To address these variations, the strategy includes sector-specific recommendations, enabling more tailored and context-sensitive implementation.
Because workplace needs and capacities vary widely, the strategy emphasises adaptability. Its roadmap is designed so organisations can adjust initiatives to their context, ensuring relevance for institutions of different sizes, structures, and levels of digital maturity.
Digital-Era-Fit Models and Organisational Insights
Our findings show that digital demands (e.g., technological complexity, cognitive overload, unsupportive leadership) and digital resources (e.g., supportive leadership, integrated digital systems, clear policies) form two distinct clusters that relate to outcomes in theoretically expected ways. Demands correlate strongly with burnout and technostress, while resources are linked to higher job satisfaction, performance, and perceived digital transformation progress. Importantly, demands and resources do not simply cancel one another out; correlations between them are weak, confirming that organisations can experience high levels of both simultaneously.
These insights provide a scientific foundation for modelling digital well-being and directly support the design of the Digi-B-Well assessment toolkit.
Joint Design of the Digi-B-Well Digitalisation Toolkit
Finally, the consortium has also completed the joint design of the Digi-B-Well Digitalisation Toolkit, a key component of the project that brings together scientific evidence, practical insights, and cross-country collaboration. The toolkit translates the project’s research foundations into a clear, user-friendly self-assessment instrument that enables organisations and employees to reflect on their digital maturity, identify sources of digital strain, and uncover opportunities for better digital well-being.
At its core is a structured questionnaire built around the project’s conceptual model of digital demands and digital resources. Through this assessment, users gain a nuanced understanding of the conditions that shape their digital work environment and receive guidance on how to strengthen both individual and organisational resilience.
The toolkit is now ready to move into technical development and pilot preparation, forming one of the core outputs that will ultimately feed into the project’s transnational digital well-being solution.