“How can we train researchers and designers to guide society’s digital transformation towards inclusive and sustainable futures?”

How can we train researchers and designers to guide society’s digital transformation towards inclusive and sustainable futures? DCODE (Fundamentals of Design Competence for Our Digital World) is a Horizon 2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Innovative Training Network (ITN) that addresses this urgent question. The project brings together a European consortium of seven world-class universities, working in close collaboration with industry, government, and civil society stakeholders. Over four years, DCODE has united 40 researchers from 20 countries, supported by a €4 million budget, to pioneer new approaches to digital transformation that are democratic, responsible, and more-than-human. Through interdisciplinary training, practice-based research, and public engagement, DCODE equips a new generation of designers and researchers to shape technologies that matter—ethically, ecologically, and socially.