Goals and objectives.
TWIN4DEM aims to tackle one of the most pressing challenges of our time: understanding and mitigating democratic backsliding. Through interdisciplinary collaboration and advanced technologies, the project seeks to:
- Identify the root causes of democratic backsliding with a focus on executive aggrandizement and threats to rule-of-law institutions.
- Develop innovative tools and methodologies to enhance the transparency, effectiveness, and legitimacy of democratic processes.
- Empower policymakers, civil society, and citizens with actionable insights and solutions to safeguard democracy.
- Foster a sustainable open-source community to support long-term engagement and collaboration in democracy research.
Key focus areas (digital twins, CSS, democratic resilience).
Digital Twins:
- Prototyping digital representations of democratic systems in four European countries: Czechia, France, Hungary, and the Netherlands.
- Simulating policy scenarios to predict and address threats to democratic resilience.
Computational Social Science (CSS):
- Leveraging data-driven methods to process and analyze textual and non-textual political data in real time.
- Developing GDPR-compliant tools to enhance the efficiency and scope of democracy research.
Democratic Resilience:
- Enhancing the ability of European democracies to resist and recover from internal and external threats.
- Strengthening institutions and processes to uphold democratic values and citizen empowerment.
