Ensuring Social Legitimacy: Potsdam Interactive Forum
How do we design more inclusive and effective participation, whilst ensuring social legtimacy? This was one of the core questions discussed during our Interactive Forum held in Potsdam on the 11th of September 2025. In 2024, we developed innovative ideas for...
Local Realities, Shared Visions: Exploring Democracy Models in Tallinn, Estonia
On August 14th, Tallinn University hosted an Interactive Forum that gathered 14 participants from across Estonia’s political and civic landscape. The group included politicians from different local parties, NGO representatives working on citizen engagement, deputy...
Lisbon Interactive Forum: Exploring Democratic Innovations
On June 24th, the Portuguese edition of the INCITE-DEM Interactive Fora took place at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon, bringing together 16 policymakers, public officials and technical staff from local and national institutions. The aim was to assess the...
INCITE-DEM involves children in co-creating the future
Who is most relevant to reach in a project about inclusive citizenship, sustainability and democracy? Children are literally our future, and what could be better than involving them in discussions about what world we should shape together? This summer, INCITE-DEM and...![[BLOG] Reflections from the Interactive Forum in Barcelona](https://incite-dem.eu/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/ITA13.png)
[BLOG] Reflections from the Interactive Forum in Barcelona
On July 9th, the Barcelona Interactive Forum brought together 14 policymakers and public administration professionals to evaluate the feasibility and implementation potential of six democratic innovations co-designed by citizens across Europe. The event focused on...
The Third INCITE-DEM Newsletter is here!
READ ALL ABOUT IT As we enter the final year of the INCITE-DEM project, our collective efforts are increasingly focused ontranslating research-driven insights into practical tools and strategies that can inform policy and strengthen democratic practice – at the...
INCITE-DEM kindly invites you to attend the first in a series of four webinars REFLECTING ON CONFLICTS IN PLANNING PROCESSES USING THE DIALOGUE TOOL presented by Wander Jager and Shaoni Wang of the University of Groningen on Tuesday, MAY 27th // 15:30 – 17:00...
INCITE-DEM research at Media, Politics and Democracy Congress
INCITE-DEM was present at the Media, Politics and Democracy Congress organised by ICNova/Nova University of Lisbon and DCC/Autonoma University of Lisbon, which took place on the 28th of February. Our colleagues from the Faculty of Lisbon’s CE3C – Centre for Ecology,...