WG2

In September 2025, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Serhat Yetimova from Sakarya University (Türkiye) completed a Short-Term Scientific Mission under COST Action CA22149 (CHANGECODE).His research explored how cinema and film literacy can strengthen deliberative democracy, especially through migrant participation.Through collaborations at Sorbonne University, CIRET, and Sorbonne Nouvelle, he examined cinema’s role as both cultural expression and democratic […]

Last week, Dr. Urška Lampe and doctoral researcher Cecilia Furioso Cenci from the IRRIS Institute – Center for Oral History, and members of Working Group 2, took part in the 23rd International Oral History Association Conference, that took place  between 16 and 19 September in Kraków, Poland, They contributed to the panel “Oral Archives: Which

We are happy to announce an upcoming in-person event that is going to take place 8-9 September 2025 and hosted by: Institute of Political ScienceFaculty of Social SciencesUniversity of Wrocław The focus of the 2-day meeting will be deliberation: its historical roots, its forms and tools, and its relevance for today’s challenges. The program with

In June, our MC Member from North Macedonia, Katerina Veljanovska Blazhevska, PhD had the privilege of undertaking a research stay within the STSM grant, at the Faculty of National Security, War Studies University in Warsaw, Poland, where she served as both a researcher and lecturer. As part of the research conducted within the project “Enhancing

We would like to share some insights from the First Training School in Cost Action CA22149 ChangeCode that was organised by the Working Group Leaders and was hosted by the University of Barcelona, Faculty of Geography and History, The Training School was organised in collaboration with the local Grup d’Estudis Històrics del Mediterrani Occidental (GEHMO)

We are pleased to announce the upcoming Knowledge Exchange Event and WG2 Meeting (in-person and hybrid format), which will take place on April 28-29, 2025, at Universitat de les Illes Balears, Mallorca, Spain. The following core topics will be the primary focus of this meeting: Abstract submission is open until 26 March 2025, 24:00 CET.

The Innovation in Politics Awards 2024 celebrated groundbreaking projects from across Europe, recognizing exemplary initiatives in seven categories at a gala in Barcelona. The event, hosted under the auspices of the Secretary General of the Council of Europe,highlighted innovative endeavours fostering democracy’s evolution. Among these projects, Prof. Dr. Savaş Zafer Şahin, also a member of