Webinars

In INSPIRE's June Webinar, Oliver Escobar and Adrian Bua introduce the Democratic Capabilities Framework (DCF) as a conceptual and practical resource for reorienting the design and evaluation of participatory processes, as well as of policies that aim to support a more participatory democracy. The DCF connects participation with systemic change. It aims to support people in the field of participation (e.g. funders, policymakers, commissioners, organisers, facilitators, advocates, researchers) to foreground structural factors that shape democratic life and determine what actions may advance democratic capabilities in their context.

April's INSPIRE webinar we explored how across INSPIRE's seven pilots, participatory democracy did not end with performances, exhibitions or a list of policy proposals. It moved into a more demanding - and often less visible to the main public - phase, what many partners came to call the day after. This was the point at which participation either deepened through sustained relationships or began to thin into tokenism. Looking across youth employment in the UK, disability rights in Portugal, migrant women’s organising in Ireland, housing justice in Hungary, refugee participation in Poland, labour market inclusion for older women in Bulgaria, and work with young men around polarisation and extremism in the Czech Republic, a shared set of questions emerged about accountability, embeddedness and institutional responsibility over time.

Hosted by the Center for Deliberation at the Faculty of Sociology, University of Warsaw, this INSPIRE webinar explored how Legislative Theater can empower underrepresented groups by amplifying their voices in political contexts.

In December's INSPIRE webinar we explored why time is an overlooked axis of inequality in participatory processes and how marginalised groups face time poverty, precarity, and accelerated lives that restrict deep political engagement.

Part 2 of October's INSPIRE webinar 'Intersectional Crossroads in Urban VS Digital Participation'. This webinar explores the Intersection of E-Democracy Platforms, Urban Development Models, and Political Cultures on Political User Experience (PUX), where we unpack the invisible forces shaping how people navigate participatory platforms across cities, crises, and power structures.

Part 1 of October's INSPIRE webinar 'Intersectional Crossroads in Urban VS Digital Participation'. This webinar explores the Intersection of E-Democracy Platforms, Urban Development Models, and Political Cultures on Political User Experience (PUX), where we unpack the invisible forces shaping how people navigate participatory platforms across cities, crises, and power structures.

This webinar explores legislative theatre, one the seven participatory processes implemented under INSPIRE across various European countries. The consortium heard about the use of legislative theatre to work with young people in the West Midlands in the UK to improve youth employment policies in the UK.

This webinar explores a range of arts-based methods and their relevance to INSPIRE's seven pilots.​ Pilots are being conducted in the UK, Ireland, Poland, Portugal, Czech Republic, Bulgaria and Hungary