From Idea collection, we switch to Idea selection. As chair of the Digital Transformation Cluster of the Civil society convention on the Future of Europe, ECAS just started the next […]
Today, the President of the European Commission, Ursula Von der Leyen shared her view on the State of the Union in 2021. ECAS followed the speech closely through the lenses […]
Research in social sciences should eventually contribute to societal progress. In the DEMOS (Democratic Efficacy and the Varieties of Populism in Europe) Horizon 2020 EU funded project we want to ensure that researchers […]
Discussions on citizenship education in Europe open a large selection of topics to touch upon. In fact, it is difficult to choose where to start from. With Values Unite entering […]
By Hendrik Nahr This blog post is based on a working paper, published in the scope of DEMOS – a project funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research 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 1 March, ECAS, ALDA and R.E.D. hosted a workshop dedicated to Sustainable Multilevel Democracy. It took place in the scope of the 2021 Civil Society Days (organised by the European […]
How can the impact of citizen-driven e-democracy tools be strengthened throughout Europe? This was the main question that the conference ‘Advancing Citizen-driven Participation through Digital Tools’ aimed to answer. On […]
By Bruno Kaufmann, president of the Initiative and Referendum Institute, Europe’s Global Direct Democracy Think-Tank This article was originally published on the European Citizens’ Initiative Forum . For the 62nd time in […]
The #EUTakeTheInitiative Roadshow is heading to Vienna for its final event of the year! On this occasion we are organising a full-day interactive conference on the European Citizens’ Initiative and […]