Today, digital democracy is becoming an important complement – and some would say even an alternative – to offline forms of political participation. Increasingly more people use social media as a news source, debates regularly unfold in comment sections, and protests often start in encrypted chats. The digitalization of public life has upended traditional ways of political engagement. Digital platforms have brought clear democratic advantages: nowadays, information is readily

The IDEAL project added real value to the conversation on digital transformation and collaborative innovation during the Erasmus+ IMMER-CV Final Event. Organized by INNOPAC in Valencia and streamed online, the hybrid conference marked the successful conclusion of IMMER-CV’s 18-month mission to deliver a groundbreaking training curriculum on immersive technologies for the Cultural and Creative Sectors (CCS). Prof. Charalampos Alexopoulos, representing the IDEAL consortium fr

One of the main goals of the IDEAL project is to make the democratic collaboration more accessible to various communities, including those that may have difficulties using the dominant language of the country they reside in. That is why we rely on language technology of  text simplification . It aims to build automatic tools that transform a given text piece -- e.g. a sentence, a paragraph, or a whole document -- into a variant that maintains the meaning of the original, but

In the first half of 2025, two of the IDEAL project partners, WU Vienna University of Economics & Business and Caritas Vienna , collaborated for hosting group discussions with beneficiaries from diverse backgrounds in Vienna and Lower Austria. The meetings formed an important part of the project’s groundwork to explore what people living in Austria need to participate more in democratic life. As part of Caritas Vienna “Zusammenreden 2.0” (“Talking together 2.0) meetup series

Deliberation and political participation are fundamental rights that are out of reach for many vulnerable or marginalised groups....

Democracy is more than just casting a vote on election day. A truly effective democracy thrives when people engage in public debates, use...

In a Europe defined by its rich cultural and linguistic diversity, democracy must be as inclusive as its people. With 24 official...