Strengthening Democracy Through Education: Conceptual and Practical Perspectives

The conference will focus on the opportunities to strengthen contemporary responsible democratic citizenship through education. We view democratic citizenship as the capacity of citizens to act as autonomous democratic agents in a responsible way. This has become an increasingly urgent need due to several recent and ongoing crises in Europe. The challenges such as mediatization, technocratization, disenchantment, radicalization, populism, securitization, digitalization, illiberalism and others put pressures both on the democratic system and citizens. Strengthening Education for Democracy is one means of responding to these challenges.