Project description DEENESFRITPL A closer look at how social media impacts democracy European democracies and institutions are using social media platforms to interact with citizens and sway public opinion. But there's another side to the social media coin. Big tech giants like Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple and Microsoft have stepped into the political spotlight and can be opinion-making. The question now is whether they are powerful enough to change a person’s political view. The EU-funded INCA project will study ways to maintain trust in institutions and new models of governance that can compete with the growth of platforms. INCA will also identify the ways these platforms influence people into believing otherwise and will explore ways to spread fairness and prevent digital disruption. Show the project objective Hide the project objective Objective INCA project investigates the impact that so-called digital platforms have on European democracies and institutions. Indeed, while promoting economic growth and labour transformations, these platforms pose challenges to policymakers and citizens in relation to people’ participation in decision-making processes, wealth inequalities and erosion of trust into public institutions. In particular, so-called GAFAM (Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple and Microsoft) are becoming more and more infrastructures for opinion-making, labour organization and political debate. Their increasing power in shaping and influencing such issues through lobbying, industrial relations and cultural impact opened up a wide debate on the way to deal with these transformations. While European societies grew up based on liberal democracies and institutions with their capacity to sustain a coordinated market economy, today their role seems to be reduced because of the difficulties to regulate platforms’ corporate power that spread through politics, economy and culture.INCA aims to• define forms to sustain trust in institutions and new models of governance capable to combine the growth of platforms with social inclusion and citizens participation in decision making processes;• stimulate alternative business models and industrial relations so to make GAFAM and platforms accountable to social fairness while preserving their innovation;• to clarify the way GAFAM influence European citizens opinion conditioning democratic processes.Exploring the socio-historical roots behind platforms growth and the erosion of a coordinated market economy, collecting solid data on GAFAM lobbying, industrial relations and opinion-making, and producing participatory actions for the empowerment of democratic processes and citizens’ engagement, INCA contributes to instil greater democratic accountability and inclusion in economic processes prompted by digital transformations. Fields of science social sciencessociologygovernancesocial sciencespolitical sciencesgovernment systemsdemocracysocial sciencessociologyindustrial relationssocial scienceseconomics and businessbusiness and managementbusiness modelssocial sciencespolitical sciencespolitical policiescivil society Programme(s) HORIZON.2.2 - Culture, creativity and inclusive society Main Programme HORIZON.2.2.1 - Democracy and Governance Topic(s) HORIZON-CL2-2021-DEMOCRACY-01-02 - Economic models and modern democracies Call for proposal HORIZON-CL2-2021-DEMOCRACY-01 See other projects for this call Funding Scheme RIA - Research and Innovation action Coordinator ALMA MATER STUDIORUM - UNIVERSITA DI BOLOGNA Net EU contribution € 643 777,50 Address Via zamboni 33 40126 Bologna Italy See on map Region Nord-Est Emilia-Romagna Bologna Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Participation in EU R&I programmes Opens in new window HORIZON collaboration network Opens in new window Other funding € 0,00 Participants (10) Sort alphabetically Sort by Net EU contribution Expand all Collapse all UNIVERSITAT DE BARCELONA Spain Net EU contribution € 269 850,00 Address Gran via de les corts catalanes 585 08007 Barcelona See on map Region Este Cataluña Barcelona Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Participation in EU R&I programmes Opens in new window HORIZON collaboration network Opens in new window Other funding € 0,00 ASSOCIACAO LABORATORIO COLABORATIVOPARA O TRABALHO, EMPREGO E PROTECAO SOCIAL Portugal Net EU contribution € 209 327,50 Address Rua das taipas n 1 1250-264 Lisboa See on map Region Continente Área Metropolitana de Lisboa Área Metropolitana de Lisboa Activity type Research Organisations Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Participation in EU R&I programmes Opens in new window HORIZON collaboration network Opens in new window Other funding € 0,00 UNIWERSYTET WROCLAWSKI Poland Net EU contribution € 156 405,00 Address Pl uniwersytecki 1 50137 Wroclaw See on map Region Makroregion południowo-zachodni Dolnośląskie Miasto Wrocław Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Participation in EU R&I programmes Opens in new window HORIZON collaboration network Opens in new window Other funding € 0,00 TARTU ULIKOOL Estonia Net EU contribution € 353 766,25 Address Ulikooli 18 51005 Tartu See on map Region Eesti Eesti Lõuna-Eesti Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Participation in EU R&I programmes Opens in new window HORIZON collaboration network Opens in new window Other funding € 0,00 ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT-INSTITUT FURINTERNET UND GESELLSCHAFT GGMBH Germany Net EU contribution € 408 462,50 Address Franzosische strasse 9 10117 Berlin See on map Region Berlin Berlin Berlin Activity type Research Organisations Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Participation in EU R&I programmes Opens in new window HORIZON collaboration network Opens in new window Other funding € 0,00 TILBURG UNIVERSITY- UNIVERSITEIT VAN TILBURG Netherlands Net EU contribution € 273 726,25 Address Warandelaan 2 5037 AB Tilburg See on map Region Zuid-Nederland Noord-Brabant Midden-Noord-Brabant Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Participation in EU R&I programmes Opens in new window HORIZON collaboration network Opens in new window Other funding € 0,00 FONDAZIONE PER L'INNOVAZIONE URBANA Italy Net EU contribution € 155 215,00 Address Piazza maggiore 6 40121 Bologna See on map Region Nord-Est Emilia-Romagna Bologna Activity type Other Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Participation in EU R&I programmes Opens in new window HORIZON collaboration network Opens in new window Other funding € 0,00 FUNDACIO BARCELONA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY FOR THE HABITAT BIT HABITAT Spain Net EU contribution € 104 933,75 Address Avinguda diagonal 240 08018 Barcelona See on map Region Este Cataluña Barcelona Activity type Other Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Participation in EU R&I programmes Opens in new window HORIZON collaboration network Opens in new window Other funding € 0,00 URBASOFIA SRL Romania Net EU contribution € 129 312,50 Address Soseaua colentina 11 bloc r26 scara 1 etaj 3 ap 16 camera nr 1 021154 Bucuresti See on map SME The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed. 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