12 - 13 June 2025, 2nd Conference of the European Network for Digital Democracy (EDDY-2025) "Digital Democracy: Bridging Theory and Practice", Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris

The European Digital DemocracY network (EDDY) aims to bring together academics and practitioners actively working on or with digital democracy, to foster collaboration and knowledge exchange. After a very successful first edition, EDDY is proud to announce its second in-person conference, 'Digital Democracy: Bridging Theory and Practice' (EDDY2025), taking place at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France, on the 12th and 13th of June, 2025.

The event will feature contributed talks through an open call (see below), a range of social and interactive sessions (networking, round-table discussions, demo sessions, etc.), and a variety of academic and non-academic keynote speakers, including Umberto Grandi (Professor of Computer Science at the University of Toulouse), Carolina Romero Cruz (co-founder and project manager at Decidim), and Simone Vannuccini (Junior Professor of Economics at Université Côte d'Azur).

We are opening two tracks for selected contributions at the conference: the talks track and the demos track. If you are an academic or a practitioner whose work is related to digital democracy, we invite you to create an account and submit a one-page description/abstract on this page, by March 9th, 2025. You can submit to either of our tracks:

Talks track. Selected talks will be given 15-20 minutes presentation time in the program, depending on the number of high quality submissions. There will be no proceedings associated with the conference, so you are welcome to submit work that has been previously published by other conferences, journals, and so on.

Demos track. Selected demos will take place in parallel during a dedicated session, where you will be given access to a table and internet connection ('bring your own laptop' setup). Participants of the conference will be able to freely roam and join the different demos.

We welcome contributions from both academics and practitioners on any of the following topics, in relation to digital democracy: online deliberation, liquid democracy, the public sphere, apps and tools for online decision-making, machine learning, crowdsourcing, the digital divide, participatory budgeting, computational social choice, digital identities, social media, popular will, cryptocurrencies & blockchain, secrecy vs. publicity of votes and opinions.
We particularly welcome submissions by students and early career scholars or practitioners.

Contributions will be selected on the basis of their connection to EDDY's goals, with an eye toward the conference's multi-, cross-disciplinary target audience and the diversity of projects and contributors. Depending on the number of submissions, some contributions may be selected for a poster presentation instead. Notification of acceptance is expected by March 21st, 2025.

This event is made possible thanks to the support and funding of the Centre d'Economie de la Sorbonne and Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne.

For more information, see the conference webpage or write to contact at eddy-network.eu to contact any of EDDY's core committee members: Jan Maly (WU Vienna University of Economics and Business), Arianna Novaro (Paris 1 University), and Frederik Van De Putte (Erasmus University Rotterdam).