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ECAS Citizenship Innovation Awards

Share ideas or best practices to enhance digital inclusion!

Digital transformation can lead to many new job opportunities, allow citizens to work and study from anywhere, be a valuable democratic tool, and provide wider access to education and culture. However, several challenges are associated with the growing digitalisation of society.

Participate in our ECAS Awards 2024 and share your thoughts and recommendations to enhance digital inclusion through our crowdsourcing platform!

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How to participate?
Winners and awards

Background:

The ECAS Citizenship Innovation Awards, launched by ECAS in 2020, give voice to citizens who wish to express their thoughts on their EU rights.

In 2020, citizens were asked to elect the most EU mobile citizens-friendly locations.

Winners:

-The European Disability Forum (EDF) for their project “Double Mobility” in the category “Practices aimed at alleviating the effects of the COVID-19 outbreak on mobile EU citizen”;

-Romanians in Belgium (ROMBEL) for their project “A Bridge Between Home and Europe” in the category “Practices aimed at improving the social and cultural inclusion of mobile EU citizens”;

-Paris municipality and its project “INCLUDE” in the category “Practices aimed at improving the political inclusion of mobile EU citizens”; and

-European Future Forum (EFF) with their Euro Babble initiative in the category “ECAS’ choice” based on the votes of ECAS’ staff.

In the 2021 edition, citizens, academics, creatives and civil society organisations shared innovative ideas about EU citizenship.

Winners:

-Antonella Nuzzaci’s for her concept note on “Measuring and Evaluating the QUALity of Teacher Training in Citizenship Education”;

-Democratic Society for the Prodemo project.

In 2022, citizens were invited to imagine renewed rights attached to their EU citizenship via our crowdsourcing platform.

Winners:

-Mathilde Pottier: create an EU Health Platform;

-Patric Lausch: right to access bank funds without additional fees;

-Konstantsa Karaleeva: right to have equal marriage & parental rights.

In 2023, citizens were invited to share ideas on encouraging political participation.

Winner:

-Havva Ebrahimi Pour, “Engaging EU citizens in the democratic process”.

This year, we asked citizens to share ideas or best practices to enhance digital inclusion at the local level.

Visit our crowdsourcing platform and vote the best idea!

The second phase of the ECAS Awards 2024 is now open to receive votes from European citizens!

As part of the European digital decade, ECAS invited citizens to share what type of initiatives they would like to see more in their neighbourhood, to improve digital inclusion. These past few years, initiatives have been developed at the EU level to strengthen digital inclusion, such as the promotion of digital multilingualism, the development of social inclusion projects, the creation of the Digital Action Plan 2021-2027 and the European Disability Strategy 2021-2030.

During the first phase, which took place from July 15th to March 25th, citizens submitted their ideas.

The second phase started right after the first one, and during this phase all citizens, whether they contributed to phase 1 or not, are invited to vote for the best idea.

Where: ECAS crowdsourcing platform is where the magic happens.

Who: If you are an EU citizen, vote for the best idea.

The winner idea which has gathered the most votes will be announced at our Awards Ceremony in Brussels on April 15th 2025 and be rewarded with: