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

Sitra has experience in piloting, developing and scaling innovative, impactful and educative forms of civic tech enabled citizen participation methods. We work towards sustainable European Civic Tech Ecosystem, improving the adoption and trustworthiness of European tools, that also offers an opportunity of disseminating the pilot learnings into more coordinated knowledge and impact.

Get to know more of our work in the area of scaling civic tech: Voxit – a platform for constructive interaction - Sitra

Example of pilot run together with City of Helsinki and The Office of the President of the Republic of Finland: Trust in others and society strong in Finland, but security of the world raises concerns – President Stubb listened to secondary school students’ views on security - Sitra

Expample of developing paritcipation methodologies and key principles according to actual needs.
Handbook for an Educational Voting Advice Application - Sitra
The handbook brings together the key principles that should guide the design and implementation of an educational VAA.