Granting Opportunity from the European Commission: Reshaping Democracies II
Programme - Horizon Europe Framework Programme (HORIZON)
Call - Reshaping democracies II (HORIZON-CL2-2022-DEMOCRACY-02)
Opening date - 12 May 2022
Deadline date - 21 September 2022 17:00:00 Brussels time
Funding Amount - EUR 3,000,000
Proposals should establish an innovative network of democracy research organisations and practitioners of democratic innovation, which will:
- Connect the dots of the current fragmented landscape of research, platforms, databases, knowledge repositories and research infrastructures into new models and practices of democracy and suggested paths for innovation of democratic practices, assessing their impact to ensure a match with the needs of policymakers and facilitate broad dissemination of these models.
- Produce policy recommendations to strengthen and renew democracy in all governance levels and democratic debate in Europe, drawing on the existing body of knowledge. These recommendations must be accessible, publicly available, and well disseminated including through a central open access repository.
- Analyse ex post the dynamics and patterns in terms of citizen participation in the Conference on the Future of Europe and evaluate how they could translate into an infrastructure for inclusive participatory and deliberative democracy in the EU.
- Help policymakers in the EU and Associated Countries to design civic participation strategies for relevant policy areas, in conjunction with the European Commission’s Competence Centre on Participatory and Deliberative Democracy.
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Organise 2 retreats per year for policymakers from EU Member States and Associated Countries and EU institutions, targeting high-level officials, to learn and exchange from experts and peers on democratic strengthening and renewal, and encourage exchange on emerging or persisting challenges and threats to democracy, participation and civic engagement.
- Design capacity-building activities on inclusive participatory and deliberative forms of democracy at different governance levels, including training and knowledge sharing.
- Proposals should also contribute to raising awareness of potential policy actions that they recommend to strengthen and renew democracy at all levels of the government and legislative bodies in Europe, through information and dissemination activities.
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