Democratic Progress in the 21st Century
The “Democratic Progress” Task force of the "Civil Society Hub for actors addressing populist movements" worked between January and March…
Student training on civic tech tools in Ljubljana
Between 2019 and 2022, NEXUS explored the relationship between digitally enabled participatory tools and democracy to build upon the existing…
Digital Transformation Consultation enters second phase
From Idea collection, we switch to Idea selection. As chair of the Digital Transformation Cluster of the Civil society convention…
Report: Digital Democracy Day 2021
On 23 November 2021, civil society representatives and policy makers convened to discuss how participatory democracy can help to improve…
ECAS’ Takeaways on the ‘State of the Union’
Today, the President of the European Commission, Ursula Von der Leyen shared her view on the State of the Union…
No ivory towers – DEMOS researchers team up with citizens
Research in social sciences should eventually contribute to societal progress. In the DEMOS (Democratic Efficacy and the Varieties of Populism in Europe)…
Enhancing Citizenship Competences in the EU
Discussions on citizenship education in Europe open a large selection of topics to touch upon. In fact, it is difficult…
Civil society action countering populist movements
By Hendrik Nahr This blog post is based on a working paper, published in the scope of DEMOS – a…
Launch: Open Online Course on Digital Participation
Getting involved online is almost indispensable for citizens that want to trigger change in their community, region, country or in…
A new dimension of European policy co-creation
By Elisa Lironi and Hendrik Nahr An ideal democracy is where everyone can get together to take joint decisions on…