Scoping report: Future challenges to democracy

Year
2026

The report from the European Commission identifies 10 key challenges and emerging trends impacting European democratic systems and suggests future policy options. These challenges are structured across three interconnected levels: citizens and societal dynamics, the information and knowledge environment, and institutions and the democratic system. This framework aims to provide a comprehensive and integrated view of democracy as a connected ecosystem, emphasising how challenges in one area can affect the entire system.

Tags
Democracy

Food with and without pollinators

Activity concept

Use meals and food breaks as an opportunity to introduce and discuss the role that pollinators play in ensuring food diversity for us.

Mapping actors

Activity concept

Identify the important actors linked to pollinators and their decline - whether those affecting the issue or affected by it, as well as those with whom you can collaborate.

Buzzing between theory of change and backcasting

Activity concept

Sometimes it’s hard to decide where to start to make a difference. Use this activity to start from what you already do and systematically build a path to change.

Prototyping and hacking for pollinators

Activity concept

Imagine how you can change the objects, infrastructures, places and activities that form part of the daily life using simple interventions to become more supportive of pollinators and humans.

Checking-in on your hive

Activity concept

Keep an eye on how participants are doing throughout the participatory event.

Evaluating the process

Activity concept

Take stock of participants' experience of the process itself in terms of design, flow and organisation.

Sharing and reflecting on the results

Activity concept

Looking back on the journey and what has been achieved

Imagining acts of care

Activity concept

Invite participants to reflect on and co-create ‘acts of care’ through which they’d like to maintain, improve, or repair important places or activities linked to pollinators.

Mapping causes and solutions

Activity concept

You might already know what problems there are around pollinators decline, but before getting to action, it's important to understand the causes and the range of possible solutions.

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