We contribute to a conference on the state of civic participation in NRW with a panel on instances of online participation that have failed and what we can learn from them. More information available in German.

How to transfer the knowledge generated within the PhD programme and the people in the responsible for putting online participation processes into practice was the topic of a small workshop at the FHöV in Cologne today. The plan is to offer an online resource (a wiki for practitioners) that combines relevant articles summarizing and making […]

On 28 October the members of the Fortschrittskolleg met for their second annual workshop, this time at the partner institution FHöV in Gelsenkirchen. For more information, see the German article.

On 12. September 2016 Prof. Dr. Jens Weiß of Hochschule Harz was a guest speaker within our seminar series. More information and a video of the event is available in German.

On July 21st 2016 the Düsseldorf Institute for Internet and Democracy, a new department of the Heinrich-Heine-University of Düsseldorf, was officially founded. For more information, see the German version.

On June 17th, 2016 another workshop of the Fortschrittskolleg “Online-Partizipation” took place at Schloss Mickeln. Svenja Schulze, the Minister for Innovation, Science and Research of North Rhine-Westphalia used this occasion to inform herself about the current state of the PhD projects, all of which deal with the potential of online participation on the local level. […]

YOUniverity, a online-participation project allows students of the Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf to actively participate concerning the question what their seminar content should consist of.

Svenja Schulze, the Minister for Innovation, Science and Research of North Rhine-Westphalia and Professor Gesine Schwan visited an event of the Fortschrittskolleg titled “Mit der Praxis für die Praxis” – ein Austausch über transdisziplinäre Forschung an Hochschulen”. A video is available in German.