Smart eDemocracy Against Fake News (SMART eD)

The project partners will carry out the following activities across the EU:

• Conduct a survey in each project country – namely Latvia, Estonia, Slovenia, Czech Republic, Greece and France – analysing citizens’ attitudes, habits, needs and ideas on the issue.
• Organise a high-level international experts’ meeting to discuss the survey outcomes, share views and develop a methodology for a one-day programme for local events.
• Organise 2 local events per country, bringing together citizens from rural and semi-rural areas to discuss existing EU initiatives.
• Organise a final conference in Brussels to present the project outcomes and conduct an EU level dialogue involving citizens, NGOs, activists, experts, media and policy-makers.

The project will directly involve 490 people from 7 countries – Latvia, Estonia, Slovenia, Czech Republic, Belgium, Greece and France – and the key messages will be disseminated in English, French, Czech, Greek, Slovenian, Latvian and Estonian.

This project is implemented in partnership with the following organisations:

• ManaBalss.lv
• EUROPEUM
• KohoVolit.eu
• Estonian Cooperation Assembly
• Institute for Electronic Participation (INePA)
• Democratie Ouverte
• SciFY

ECAS will be actively involved in the project to ensure quality and EU scope. More specifically, ECAS will:

• Participate in the high-level experts’ meeting, and present the EU level initiatives to counter fake news;
• Ensure quality control of the methodology used in the one-day programme and the final recommendations;
• Ensure the EU scope and quality of the online repository and its content;
• Organise the concluding conference in Brussels in cooperation with ManaBalss.lv;
• Liaise with EU decision-makers;