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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 are asking citizens to share ideas or best practices to enhance digital inclusion at the local level.

Visit our crowdsourcing platform and be our winner!

The first phase of the ECAS Awards 2024 is now open for contributions from European citizens!

As part of the European digital decade, ECAS is inviting 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 this first phase, which will take place from July 15th to October 28th, citizens should submit their ideas via this link.

The second phase will start on October 28th. During that phase, all citizens, whether they have contributed to phase 1 or not, will be invited to vote for the best idea.

Where: ECAS crowdsourcing platform is where the magic happens.

Who: If You are an EU citizen, log in to the platform and provide your suggestion so that your idea can win one of the awards.

The winner idea which has gathered the most votes will be announced at an Awards Ceremony in Brussels in March 2025 and be rewarded with: