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🇪🇺 EU Knowledge Summer Quiz 🌞 Our third question in the EU Knowledge Summer Quiz is:   When is the next President of the European Commission elected, and what is the process behind it? Drop your answers in the comments below and stay tuned for the correct answer. ✨

Glad that our research agenda article (by Luis Bouza Garcia & myself) is now published by JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies. Check out "Regulating Disinformation and Big Tech in the EU: A Research Agenda on the Institutional Strategies, Public Spheres and Analytical Challenges" https://lnkd.in/e-KK99Hu

Universities, libraries and archives play a decisive role in providing access to knowledge and information for European citizens and, as such, are a crucial part of a functioning knowledge society. Unfortunately, the EU does not do enough to enable these institutions to pursue their public service mission in the digital environment. This needs to change! In order to discuss the issues that these institutions face and to identify a way forward, COMMUNIA is hosting an event on why Europe needs a Digital Knowledge Act. The event will take place on October 2nd, from 1500h to 1700h, and will bring together academics, representatives of civil society and EU policymakers to discuss legislative measures that would enable knowledge institutions to fulfil their public mission in the digital age. Learn more & register at the link below: https://lnkd.in/eJY34kKU

My new articles in the Journal of Contemporary European Studies (open access). A case for the 'five scenarios' in deliberative mini-publics'  https://lnkd.in/et-QzwC5

🇪🇺🗳️ When it comes to voting in #EUelections and defining the future of Europe, a look back at history helps to put things into perspective. The 60th anniversary of the IEE-ULB is an opportunity to share thoughts on issues that are prominent on today's EU agenda: relations between member states, European institutions and citizens, social Europe, and much more! 💡Leading researchers and practitioners, across disciplines, offer their insights in open access: the contributions to the #IEE60 anniversary conference, as well as all the cartes blanches of the series ’60 years in 6000 characters’, are now available in a bilingual ebook ! 📚 🔗 https://lnkd.in/eqzkCg8M

It was great honor to open the second day of Science for Policy in Europe Conference together with Mario Nava, Director General, DG REFORM. Polycrisis and current super-wicked problems call for the best scientific knowledge to be available to policy makers. I talked about how we used the agile approach to build a government analytical unit at the Office of the Government and attract excellent experts (many with PhD). The team is up and running, supporting line ministries in particular in ex-ante Impact Assessment for legislation, delivering on major national reforms such as affordable housing or care for vulnerable children. We are also implementing the first in-house deployment of AI-powered system (building on a state-of-the-art Large Language Model) to analyze vast amounts of textual data to support internal policy decisions. Apart from the step change on the government side, we need to significantly improve the incentive structure for scientists to provide evidence-based knowledge to develop very concrete practical solutions in a pace needed to prepare and adopt legislation in democratic context. Many thanks to colleagues from several directorates general of the European Commission who put this very timely conference together. #europeancommission #sciadvice

📝New content added on Ideas on Europe by Roberto Baccarini: '12th Biannual ECPR Standing Group on the European Union Conference in Lisbon (19-21 June 2024)' Roberto Baccarini, a PhD student at the University of Exeter, explored EU expenditure policies at the 12th Biannual ECPR Standing Group on the European Union Conference in Lisbon (19-21 June 2024), supported by a UACES Microgrant. Read now 👇 #academicresearch #ECPRStandingGroup #EUexpenditurepolicies #EuropeanCommission #EuropeanUnion #fiscalpolicy #Lisbonconference #MultiannualFinancialFramework #nextgenerationEU #UACESMicrogrant

On February 27, at 10am, at Auditorium A2 of the Maison de la Paix, the project "Infrastructuring Democracy: The Regulatory Politics of Digital Code, Content, and Circulation" (SNSF/CNPq) (Geneva Graduate Institute, PUC-Rio, The University of Edinburgh) will host the public panel "Regulating the Internet to Protect Democracy."In this event, experts and practitioners will discuss how to regulate digital infrastructures to ensure that they sustain and bolster democratic forms of politics. The panel will be held in English. More information can be found on the poster attached.

🇪🇺 EU Knowledge Summer Quiz 🌞 As we dive into the summer season, we are excited to launch our EU Knowledge Summer Quiz - a chance to test and expand your knowledge about the European Union! Ready to get started? Here’s the first question to kick things off: What is the main function of the European Council? Drop your answers in the comments below! Stay tuned for more questions and the correct answer. 🇪🇺✨

The paper I co-authored with Kalypso Nicolaidis and Emilie Gjaldbæk-Sverdrup is finally public: “Technocratic democratisation: what can we learn from the European Commission’s new generation European citizens’ panels?” It delves into the “new generation” European Citizens Panels (ECPs) convened by the European Commission. We introduce the concept of “technocratic democratisation” to characterize a form of citizen engagement which is narrowly confined to the technocratic sphere and thus remains part of a broadly technocratic logic. The paper uses participant observation methods and unstructured interviews with panel participants and organisers. It is based on the authors' work as observers or assistants to the facilitators during the "new generation" ECPs in Brussels between December 2022 and April 2023. It has been published as a working-paper for the EUI’s Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies and can be accessed through this link: https://lnkd.in/dmKA7HJG