On 23 November 2021, civil society representatives and policy makers convened to discuss how participatory democracy can help to improve the environment. This event also introduced the DigiDEM project and […]
By Elisa Lironi and Hendrik Nahr An ideal democracy is where everyone can get together to take joint decisions on rules that apply to all. However, in modern representative democracies, the […]
On 26 and 27 November, ECAS’ Executive Director, Assya Kavrakova took part in the 2018 Annual Colloquium on Fundamental Rights: Democracy in the EU. The event brought together national and EU policymakers, international […]
The conference explored current challenges to freedom of movement and civic engagement, and analysed grassroots actions of civic campaigning and engagement, in view of the 2019 European Elections. On Tuesday […]
We at ECAS are proud to announce that we have launched our very own crowdsourcing platform! Its activities will be aimed at crowdsourcing citizens’ opinions on a number of different […]
We are delighted to announce that out of 472 proposals our project “Citizens’ Call for Transparent Trilogues: Let’s build a more Democratic EU!” submitted by ECAS and VoteWatch Europe has been shortlisted […]
On February 27th, ECAS held its fourth Digital Democracy Day. Despite the cold weather and the national strike the event was a great success: a big thank you to all […]
On 2 February 2018 ECAS launched FAIR EU (Fostering Awareness, Inclusion and Recognition of EU Mobile Citizens’ Political Rights), a project aimed at the successful inclusion of EU mobile citizens in their […]
On 12 January 2017, ECAS and VoteWatch Europe submitted the project idea “Citizens’ Call for Transparent Trilogues: Let’s build a more Democratic EU!” to Advocate Europe, an idea challenge that calls on civil […]
As part of its Digital Democracy Agenda, ECAS has been working over the past year on an analysis of crowdsourcing as a means of enhancing democratic engagement in the EU. Currently, […]