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World Forum for Democracy 2025 : Call for initiatives
The World Forum for Democracy calls for expressions of interest from innovative initiatives, from all over the world, aiming at enhancing democracy and contributing to sustainable peace. Any public or private organisation is eligible to apply. One presenter for the selected initiatives will be...
World Forum for Democracy 2025: Save the date!
The 13th edition of the World Forum for democracy will take place in Strasbourg from 5 to 7 November 2025. The theme is “Democracy at risk : how can we revive it?”. Concept note >>
Winning the Democratic Innovation Award – and then what ?
We just received an inspiring update from the 2024 winner, Michele Bravos, from the Instituto Aurora for Human Rights (initiative of the Lab 9). The impact of the prize has been incredible! : From national TV coverage in Brazil to rekindled partnerships, unexpected collaborations, and even a...
Satellite Event: Exchange of views on “Deliberative democracy – from ‘nice-to-have’ to essential for thriving democracies”
Organised by the Directorate for Democracy with support of Ambassador Caitriona Doyle, Chair of the Committee of Ministers’ Rapporteur Group on Democracy this discussion will feature distinguished speakers Art O’Leary (Irish Electoral Commission), Felix Arndt (Deutscher Bundestag) and Arnaud...
Retrospective of World Forum for Democracy 2024
The 12th World Forum for Democracy is closed. It took place in Strasbourg (France) from 6 to 8 November 2024. In 2024, the theme was "Democracy and Diversity - Can we transcend the divides?". See more about the 12th World Forum for Democracy >>
World Forum for Democracy 2024: Summary of the 3rd day (8 November 2024)
Democracy Innovation Award 2024: and the winner is...
Today, at the closing session of the World Forum for Democracy, the Council of Europe announced that the winner of its Democracy Innovation Award is "Mine, yours, our vote, Aurora Institute for Human Rights" - Brazil (Lab 9) Three initiatives out of the 40 at the Forum were shortlisted for the...
World Forum for Democracy 2024: Summary of the 2nd day (7 November 2024)
2nd day of the Forum: Labs and Forum talks 2024
Today, ten labs, designed to address the challenges in different forms and to present some of the measures already being taken, should helped to provide a democratic response to the problems raised throughout the Forum. Today at the #CoE_WFD, ten specialized labs were dedicated to addressing...
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