Report from first eParticipation Study workshop “eParticipation in Europe: current state and potential” 16 May 2008 in Brussels (BE) - NOW ONLINE

Monday, June 9th, 2008

The draft report together with the agenda, presentations and list of participants from the first eParticipation Study workshop “eParticipation in Europe: current state and potential” on 16 May 2008 in Brussels (BE) is now available on www.european-eparticipation.eu (under workshop 1) The workshop reports summaries of the presentations are not meant to ...

Call for proposals for eParticipation projects 2008

Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008

On May 30th the European Commission released the Draft Work Programme 2008 – ePARTICIPATION in legislative and decision-making processes. The call for proposals will start in early June and end on August 29th (to be confirmed) and will distribute a total budget of 5 million €. The detailed timetable for ...

Climate 2008

Saturday, May 31st, 2008

Web-Conference on climate change aims to involve 1 million participants Climate change is currently one of the most discussed topics in politics, which is no surprise since its consequences are threatening modern society as such. It is likely that Internet will play a major role to inform people about the ...

PEP-NET Workshop: Scientists and researchers vision and expectations

Wednesday, May 28th, 2008

The PEP-NET kick-off meeting and workshop on 21-21 May 2008 in Hamburg (DE) brought together experts to discuss their visions and expectations for PEP-NET along with the possible advantages of the initiatives. One such discussion focused on the scientific and research community in particular. In addition to the formal vision ...

European eDemocracy Award 2008

Tuesday, May 27th, 2008

EUROPEAN eDEMOCRACY AWARD 2008 The European eDemocracy Award is an annual award honouring the most valuable European eDemocracy initiative amongst 50 selected websites in EU 27 featuring a wide range of eDemocracy tools and content strengthening eParticipation, transparency, representative participatory democracy and citizen participation in the democratic decision-making processes at the ...

PEP-NET kicked off

Monday, May 26th, 2008

On Wednesday and Thursday last week the PEP-NET partners came together at TuTech’s premises to start the project. Although some of the partners knew each other already, it was the first time that the entire project consortium met. It became obvious during the two day workshop that the consortium is ...

PEP-NET officially launches

Thursday, May 1st, 2008

May 1st has been set as the official launch date of the Pan European eParticipation Network. With that date having arrived we looking forward to working with our initial partners and everybody joining us on our way. In the next years we will try to advance the participatory efforts in Europe ...