Democracy and participation
EU Funds Corruption Watch
Corruption destroys democracy and solidarity in Europe while helping populist forces to stabilize their grip on power. We want to launch a news portal (in DE/EN/FR) that shares summaries of high-quality investigative reports on EU funds ab…
Democracy and participation | Social inclusion
Balkan heart
Old ethnic divisions and conflicts in the Balkans are still successfully projected on new generations of youth. This is why we have the impression that we are in between two rounds of boxing. Socially isolated Balkan youth do not share th…
Democracy and participation | Urban development
Democracy CityScore: Most Democratic City Award
Democracy CityScore will be an annual competition and award for innovative democratic city governance. Based on a CityScore chart, citizens will vote for outstanding achievements of local governments which improve their communities, genera…
Democracy and participation
“We need to talk”
Trust in the problem-solving capacity of democracy and its representatives is shrinking. This is particularly the case in younger democracies of Eastern Europe. Research shows that one way of restoring trust in democracy in post-communist …
Democracy and participation | Arts and cultural activities
Cultural Toolbox for Democracy
Bringing together European cultural actors, social worker, journalists, web documentary writer, to create a toolbox that can be adapted and mobilised to support and develop initiatives in favour of democracy. This toolkit will make it poss…
Democracy and participation | Communities
Fill in blank spots
We are determined to put color in “blank spots” on a local level, mainly in the countryside, by having 12 trainings, with accent on democracy, community engagement and grassroute youth work. The main reason from "them" is not only the lack…
Democracy and participation | Arts and cultural activities
Civic art boost
We propose the creation of a European platform for socially engaged art. It will feature an image vault with visual art on human rights & social issues, free to use for nonprofit outreach and campaigning. Through a series of thematic calls…
Democracy and participation | Communities
Online platform for reporting hate crime & speech
Hate crimes and speech not only harm individual integrity and dignity, but create divisions in our communities and poison public discourse in many European countries. Yet, they are significantly underreported and thus rarely addressed. Our…
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Democracy and participation | Communities
Rural Talk Matters (RTM)
Although written in the genetics of the rural life, the power of transformation of community dialogue and space has been affected by labor migration, poverty and social exclusion. We plan to design an in-depth methodology that will help re…18 Ideas found