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INCITE-DEM – Inclusive Citizenship in a world in Transformation: Co-Designing for Democracy

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Codesigned solutions for inclusive citizenship

Problems related to ecological crises, media developments and digital divides can put democracies under massive amounts of pressures. Socio-economic challenges and a decline in political trust are also top priority concerns today. With this in mind, the EU-funded INCITE-DEM project aims to improve democratic engagement and participation in representative democracies facing challenges from ecological crises and digital divides. It will use a combination of research methods and design thinking to establish Democracy Labs where stakeholders can cocreate solutions. The project will also provide policy recommendations to support inclusive democratic innovations.

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INCITE-DEM's experienced Consortium aims to enhance inclusive participation and civic engagement while expanding democratic innovation and dynamic feedback mechanisms between citizens and institutional actors in representative democracies. Currently, “wicked problems” relating to ecological crises but also media developments and digital divides create unprecedented pressures on democracies. Next to related socio-economic challenges, we’re witnessing a decline in political trust and the formation of new societal cleavages. INCITE-DEM will offer a unique contribution to the future of democracy in Europe by harnessing historical and quantitative and qualitative social science research, agent-based modelling, design thinking, and advanced analytical methods for the purpose of expanding inclusive participation and engagement and fuelling democratic innovation. Furthermore, we will implement Democracy Labs (DLabs) in six countries, where citizens, representatives of democratic innovation initiatives, policymakers, and other stakeholders come together to co-create imaginaries of inclusive democratic innovations. The new solutions and democratic futures envisioned are the objects of design fiction products. All innovations co-created in the DLabs are then validated through a choice experiment survey with citizens and interactive fora with policymakers, to check their feasibility and the potential for implementation. Lastly, a set of policy roadmaps for a sustainable, inclusive, and innovative democracy in a world facing deep societal, technological and ecological transformations are produced and presented to a broad range of stakeholders at multiple levels of governance in Europe.

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Call for proposal

HORIZON-CL2-2022-DEMOCRACY-01

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HORIZON-RIA - HORIZON Research and Innovation Actions

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FCIENCIAS.ID - ASSOCIACAO PARA A INVESTIGACAO E DESENVOLVIMENTO DE CIENCIAS
Net EU contribution
€ 294 148,75
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CAMPO GRANDE, EDIFICIO C1, PISO 3
1749 016 Lisbon
Portugal

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Continente Área Metropolitana de Lisboa Área Metropolitana de Lisboa
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Total cost
€ 294 148,75

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