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🗣️ Curious how public institutions reacted—and what this could mean for the future of participation?

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#Democracy #DemocraticInnovation #ParticipatoryDemocracy #ce3c

🟡 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗵𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗲𝗻𝘀 𝘄𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝗰𝗶𝘁𝗶𝘇𝗲𝗻𝘀 𝗱𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗻 𝗱𝗲𝗺𝗼𝗰𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘆—𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗶𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗶𝘁𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝘁𝗮𝗸𝗲 𝗶𝘁 𝘀𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗼𝘂𝘀𝗹𝘆?

At the #INCITEDEM Barcelona Interactive Forum, policymakers and public servants got hands-on with six democratic innovations co-created by citizens across Europe during our Democracy Labs.

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🟡 The #INCITEDEM library is growing!

Visit now to read our newest publication:

Varieties of Citizen Engagement? The Institutional Design of Deliberative Innovations in Europe in Comparative Perspective

Find all of our articles here:
📝 incite-dem.eu/1495-2/

#democraticinnovations

🚨New INCITE-DEM webinar!

Democracy Reimagined: Explore the history of #DemocraticInnovations in Europe—from grassroots to institutions.

📅 Tuesday, July 15th
⌚ 15:30 – 17:00 CET
🔗 Register: forms.office.com/e/eYzpf6YGyz
#incitedem #democraticinnovations #webinar

The first Forum just wrapped in Lisbon. 16 public officials gathered to debate your visions for systemic change.

🌱 Curious what those ideas look like? Stay tuned, as we will present them in detail in the following weeks!

#Democracy #democraticinnovations #incitedem

🟡 Our new Incite-Dem Interactive Fora take the bold ideas from our Democracy Labs and put them to the test: we turn public insights into models, then challenge policymakers to assess their real-world potential.

💡In short: your ideas, run through the policy gauntlet — do they hold up?

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🚨New INCITE-DEM webinar!

Democracy Reimagined: Explore the history of #DemocraticInnovations in Europe—from grassroots to institutions.

📅 Tuesday, July 15th
⌚ 15:30 – 17:00 CET
🔗 Register: forms.office.com/e/eYzpf6YGyz
#incitedem #democraticinnovations #webinar

🟡 Hot off the presses!

Our third newsletter takes an in depth look into the activities in the closing year of our project. We've gathered the data, analyzed past innovations and listened to the people - now it's time to put it all into practice!

Discover more:
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🟡 The third INCITE-DEM Newsletter is just around the corner!

Want to find out more about the project and our upcoming activities? Subscribe now!

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#incitedem #newsletter

• The rural in democratic innovations: a comparative proposal between Latin America and Europe
• Gaming Polarisation: Using Agent-Based Simulations as a Dialogue Tool

Read more about our publications on #democraticinnovations on our website:

🟡 incite-dem.eu/1495-2/

📝 Looking for some reading material for the weekend? Look no further than the two new #Incitedem articles now available on our website!

Penned by our colleagues at Instituto de Ciências Sociais da Universidade de Lisboa and the University of Groningen:

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🗣️ Can we reduce polarisation through better dialogue?

Join our webinar to explore the 𝗗𝗶𝗮𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘂𝗲 𝗧𝗼𝗼𝗹 — a dynamic simulation that shows how individual traits shape community cohesion.

📅 May 27th | Apply: forms.office.com/e/zivfZVzeS6

Find out more: incite-dem.eu/news/1745/

🗣️ Can we reduce polarisation through better dialogue?

Join our webinar to explore the 𝗗𝗶𝗮𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘂𝗲 𝗧𝗼𝗼𝗹 — a dynamic simulation that shows how individual traits shape community cohesion.

📅 May 27th | Apply: forms.office.com/e/zivfZVzeS6

Find out more: incite-dem.eu/news/1745/

📝 We have added three new articles to the list of #Incitedem publications, penned by the Instituto de Ciências Sociais da Universidade de Lisboa and the University of Groningen teams.

Read more about our publications on #democraticinnovations on our website:

🟡 incite-dem.eu/1495-2/?et_f...

Ep.04: Changing bureaucracy? Democratic Innovations · Episode

Listen to the episode:
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🔗 incite-dem.eu/podcasts/

#Incitedem #DemocraticInnovations

🗣️ “Collaborative governance, where bureaucrats, politicians and citizens work together in collective decision making I think is one of the most promising and most used democratic innovations in this space.” - Stephen Elstub

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The fourth (and final) podcast in our series Democratic Innovations takes a look at the nitty gritty aspects of our democracies, the cogs and spokes that make it all run: Bureaucracy. And how to change it?

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🗣️ “If we're not purposefully building things in advance of breakdown conditions, then it's not a surprise that when they hit, democratic innovations don't work.” - Graham Smith

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🔗 incite-dem.eu/podcasts/

#Incitedem #DemocraticInnovations

🗣️ “If we're not purposefully building things in advance of breakdown conditions, then it's not a surprise that when they hit, democratic innovations don't work.” - Graham Smith

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🟡 The third podcast in our series Democratic Innovations asks a fundamental question: how to solve (or at least attempt to solve) the crises that our democracies are facing?

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Ep.01: Improving democracy? Democratic Innovations · Episode

🗣️ “We have a performance gap. People want more out of their democracies, but these systems are not giving them more.” - Mark Warren

Listen to the episode:
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🔗 incite-dem.eu/podcasts/

#Incitedem #DemocraticInnovations

The first podcast in our series Democratic Innovations asks the fundamental question: can democratic innovations improve our democracies?

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More about the presentations:

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🟡 Sandra Oliveira presented a preliminary analysis from the Lisbon Democracy Laboratory, exploring how citizens engaged in democratic innovation processes perceive and utilize communication.

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🟡 João Paulo Limão presented findings from the 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗙𝘂𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗘𝘂𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗲 (CoFoE), examining the critical yet often overlooked role of communication in democratic innovations and examining the key challenges in connection with it.

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🔎 On February 28th, #INCITEDEM researchers contributed to the academic discourse on communication and #democraticinnovations at the Media, Politics & Democracy Congress in Lisbon.

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Democratic Innovations Podcast · INCITE-DEM · This podcast explores how democratic innovations are reshaping the landscape of citizen participation in response to the ongoing crisis in representative democracy. Sponsored by...

🎙️ We also recommend our podcast series on Democratic Innovations:

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Hello BlueSky!

Here at Incite-Dem, we research democratic innovations, citizen participation and engagement, we conduct Democracy Labs, prepare policy recommendations and historical citizen participation reviews.

To find out more about our activities, visit the project website:

🟡 incite-dem.eu

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