Net4Society Matchmaking Event for 2026 Cluster 2 calls

1 – 2 Jun 2026 | Paris, France

Project cooperationUpdated on 19 May 2026

HORIZON-CL2-2026-01-DEMOCRACY-09

Democracy Team Lead, Sitra International Programmes at Sitra, the Finnish Innovation Fund

Helsinki, FI, Finland

About

Sitra has been working towards sustainable and democratic European civic technologies ecosystem, European Civic Tech Hub, that European Comission has now adopted as part of European Democracy Shield. Besides working towards systemic change through cross-sectoral collaborations, we have also concrete experience in strategically palnning, designing, conducting and evaluating civic tech enabled participatory processess. We also have experience in developing in collaboration Educational Voting Advice Applications for more educative purposes. We have also been organising training the trainers and design workshops, all targeting towards more connected use on civic tech in public policy making, from school, municipal, regional and national level decission making.

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  • Project cooperation

    HORIZON-CL2-2026-01-DEMOCRACY-09: Citizenship education as part of lifelong learning

    • A consortium to join as partner
    • Ideation - identifying the project idea
    • Destination: Innovative Research on Democracy and Governance

    Sanna-Kaisa Saloranta

    Democracy Team Lead, Sitra International Programmes at Sitra, the Finnish Innovation Fund

    Helsinki, FI, Finland

  • Project cooperation

    CIVIC-CLIMATE: Co-creating Democratic Citizenship through Education, Participation and Green Transition

    • Completing the consortia
    • A consortium to join as partner
    • Design - setting the project scope
    • Partners for an existing consortium
    • Drafting - writing the project proposal
    • Destination: Innovative Research on Democracy and Governance
    • Destination: Innovative Research on Social and Economic Transformations

    Ausra Rutelione

    Professor, senior researcher at Kaunas University of Technology

    Kaunas, Lithuania

  • Project cooperation

    Proposal under: HORIZON-CL2-2026-01-DEMOCRACY-09

    • A consortium to join as partner
    • Partners for an existing consortium
    • Ideation - identifying the project idea

    Eria Makridou, PhD

    Director of Programme Development at Center for the Advancement of Research and Development in Educational Technology

    Nicosia, Cyprus