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Inclusive Science and European Democracies

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Bringing to light active and productive citizen participation

How to develop a culture of participation in the context of a ‘knowledge society’ is a challenging issue faced by contemporary democracies. The EU-funded ISEED project will use the experience of citizen science as a model to rethink how participatory and deliberative practices can be successfully implemented in democratic governance. Its goal is to develop a new conceptual and empirical framework - based on a multidisciplinary area of expertise and skills - aimed at testing the role and value of active citizen participation in institutional decision-making, taking into account open, transparent and shared access to deliberative processes. The project will also contribute to the scientific literature on argument formation and management in the context of the new technologies of communication.

Objective

The objective of ISEED is to identify, through an analysis of a variety of types of, and experiments in, public engagement on science-related questions and activities, generalizable characteristics and conditions that cultivate active and productive citizen participation in public deliberation. The aim is to construct a novel concept of ‘deliberative participation’ designed to enhance both the quality and the legitimacy of political decision-making, by focusing on the importance of knowledge-based deliberation. ISEED will build on and extend existing experience in the field of citizen science to explore the conditions under which participative and deliberative practices can be successfully implemented for the purpose of building forms of knowledge-based democratic governance complementary to political representation in democratic societies. ISEED combines theoretical analysis, empirical research, and small-scale experiments. It will reassess the role of the public sphere to include a novel notion of deliberative participation in a plurality of publics and counter publics. It will empirically explore how current practices of citizen participation in science can offer innovative methods to confront and overcome a number of current obstacles faced by democratic participation and decision making. It will develop a new tool to describe styles of argumentation in traditional and digital media and analyze the role of emotion and reason in polarised debates on contemporary scientific issues. The ISEED consortium, committed to multi and inter-disciplinary research, aims to deliver scalable results to foster deliberative democratic processes in Europe and other knowledge societies.

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Call for proposal

H2020-SC6-GOVERNANCE-2018-2019-2020

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Sub call

H2020-SC6-GOVERNANCE-2020

Funding Scheme

RIA - Research and Innovation action

Coordinator

UNIVERSITA CA' FOSCARI VENEZIA
Net EU contribution
€ 564 338,75
Address
Dorsoduro 3246
30123 Venezia
Italy

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Region
Nord-Est Veneto Venezia
Activity type
Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
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€ 0,00

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