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Leave X, digital democracy, and the fight against disinformation

From Wikipedia and open government data to Mastodon and the Fediverse, Everton Zanella Alvarenga has spent years working at the intersection of {...}

Orbán’s Decline: What It Means for Europe’s Anti-Abortion and Anti-LGTBIQ+ Networks

Viktor Orbán’s political weakening is reshaping more than Hungary’s domestic landscape — it is testing a transnational network of {...}

Political participation and the culture of protest in today’s Hungary

The joint workshop of ProTest and INTERFACED Horizon projects, held on April 16, 2026, at Corvinus University explored key questions surrounding {...}

دعوة للتقدم لبرنامج زمالة – تونس والشتات التونسي هل أنت مهتم/ة بالمشاركة {...}

Appel à candidatures pour une bourse – Tunisie et diaspora tunisienne

La participation citoyenne et l'engagement politique vous passionnent-ils ? Avez-vous une solide expérience dans le domaine de la participation {...}

Fellowship Call – Tunisia & Tunisian Diaspora

En français بالعربية Are you passionate about citizen participation and political engagement? Are you established in citizen {...}

Authoritarianism and Political Participation: Trends from Tunisia

In the last five years, Tunisia has undergone a dramatic political transformation. Once the cradle of the Arab Spring, the emergency measures taken {...}

Scuole senza permesso. When you don’t need permission to help those in need

Scuole Senza Permesso is a grassroots, non-political network of free Italian language schools for migrants in Milan and its hinterland, founded in {...}

Trust in Europe: Why scientists inspire confidence while politicians struggle

Over the last decade, European democracies and beyond have faced a series of shocks, including the electoral rise of illiberal political parties and {...}

Behind the Headlines: El País on Spain’s Right-Wing Networks and the Power of Citizen Engagement

Behind party clashes, networks shape Spain’s right-wing politics — and citizen engagement matters more than ever. The recent El País article {...}

Researching political participation in a time of global democratic backsliding: A view from Tunisia

In less than three decades, Tunisia has passed from being an autocratic regime to be a democratising country completing two electoral cycles and, {...}

Takeaways from the Annual Conference of the Hungarian Sociological Association

INTERFACED and ProTest Horizon projects held a joint roundtable discussion entitled “Unpacking de-democratization. A global tendency with local {...}

Gaza Aid Flotilla: Project Partner City St George’s, University of London Featured in Reuters Article

In a Reuters article, our project coordinator Dan Mercea, Professor of Digital and Social Change at St George’s, University of London, explains {...}

University of Parma Presents Cutting-Edge Computational Protest Analysis at SISP 2025

The University of Parma team recently presented groundbreaking methodological research at the 38th Annual Conference of the Italian Political {...}

Open Call for Journalists

During the Covid-19 pandemic, existing and new forms of political engagement took on different shapes. Restrictions on movement and gathering forced {...}

Open Call for Stories

Are you passionate about storytelling? Do you have a fresh and personal perspective on how people take part in civic life? The INTERFACED project {...}

Project Partner HUN-REN Centre for Social Sciences showcases research at International Conferences

Presentation at the 38th Annual Conference of the Italian Political Science Association (SISP) in Naples, Italy At the SISP Annual Conference {...}

“Interfacing through Manifestos” Workshop at Pride Oradea 2025

“Interfacing through Manifestos” was a workshop led by Toma Burean, a project partner from Universitatea Babeș-Bolyai (Romania), who was {...}

Research Training Course “Interfaces for Democratic Participation” at Goethe University, Frankfurt

At Goethe University Frankfurt, the INTERFACED project is complemented by the research training course “Interfaces for Democratic {...}

Fellowship for Community Outreach and Engagement Ambassadors

Are you passionate about citizen participation and political engagement? Do you have a strong presence—online or offline—in your community {...}

Welcome to INTERFACED: Reimagining Democratic Participation in a Post-Pandemic Europe

As we launch the INTERFACED project—Interfaces for Democratic Participation: Deliberation, Mobilization and Contestation Since the Onset of {...}

Project Meeting in Budapest – April 2025

On April 29 and 30, 2025, project partners gathered in Budapest for the first in-person meeting of the project, hosted by the Centre for Social {...}

INTERFACED Officially Launches a Pioneering Horizon Europe-Funded Project

The INTERFACED project (Interfaces for Democratic Participation: Deliberation, Mobilization, and Contestation Since the Onset of the Covid-19 {...}