• 11:00 – 11:30 Arrival and registration
• 11:30 – 11:45 Welcome and project presentations
  Caroline Close (BrIAS)
  Michal Jacunski (Action Chair Relink2 CA23114)
• 11:45 – 12:30 Networking activity (co-designed with Policy Lab)
  All roundtable participants and panel presenters are kindly invited to attend
• 12:30 – 13:30 Lunch
• 13:30 – 15:00 Roundtable 1 – Facilitating digital internal participation and deliberation within political actors
  Chair: Ramón Villaplana (University of Murcia)
  Participants:
  Ciarán Cuffe (Co-chair, European Green Party)
  Pierre-Yves Leveaux (Communication Adviser, Party of European Socialists Group)
  Alessia Gonfroid (Network Officer, European Network of Political Foundations)
• 15:00 – 15:30 Coffee break
• 15:30 – 17:00 Roundtable 2 – Sharing best practices on the use of digital tools to engage hard-to-reach groups
  Chair: Caroline Close
  Participants:
  Paulo Rosa (Policy analyst, European Commission’s Joint Research Centre)
  Hendrik Nahr (Head of European Affairs, Make.org)
  Nadia Tjahja (Coordinator, Youth Dialogue on Internet Governance)
  Giulia Sandri (R&D Manager, European Citizen Action Service)
• 17:00 – 18:00 Drink

• 8:30 – 9:00 Arrival and registration
• 9:00 – 9:10 Welcome
  Caroline Close (BrIAS)
  Jasmin Fitzpatrick (Action Vice-Chair Relink2 CA23114)
• 9:15 – 10:45 Parallel sessions

Panel session 1: E-government and digital inclusion

Chair: Giulia Sandri (Université libre de Bruxelles)
Discussant: Dmytro Khutkyy (University of Tartu)

• Mansi, Egla; Bonomi, Andrea – (Re)Connecting Citizens through Digital Public Services: Examining the Role of E-Government in Political Trust and Democratic Engagement
• Kapsa, Izabella – Reconnecting or Excluding? Online Voting in Participatory Budgeting in Polish Cities
• Gueorguieva, Pétia – Digital local policies and digital needs to improving citizens participation

Panel session 2: Digital technologies and democratic risks

Chair: Gabriela Borz (University of Strathclyde)
Discussants: Felix Von Nostitz (ESPOL), Dmytro Khutkyy (University of Tartu)

• Aquida, Salma – Reactive Democracy and the Illusion of Digital Reconnection in Southeast Asia
• Janušauskienė, Diana – Digital Exclusion: A Critical Analysis of Underlying Causes
• Pandey, Shipi – Disconnecting Democracy: AI, Digital Infrastructures, and the Simulated Inclusion of Marginalised Citizens in India
• Ceballos, Pablo – AI Regulation and Democratic Risks: A Critical Analysis of Human Rights in El Salvador

10:45 – 11:15 Break

Panel session 3: Political actors and digital tactics

Chair: Emilien Paulis (University of Luxemburg)
Discussant: Lucas Kins (Université libre de Bruxelles)

• Pereira, André – Digital Youth Engagement and Party Strategies in Portugal’s 2024-2025 Elections
• Barrat, Jordi – How public institutions supervise political parties when online voting is used for internal decision-making
• Dechung, Zhang – From Tweets to Tactics: Unravelling State-backed Propaganda on Twitter
• Schoeman, Smilla – How personal data is used by political parties and private companies for election campaigning in South Africa

Panel session 4: Digital Citizenry and Democratic Governance

Chair: Oscar Barberà (University of Valencia)
Discussant: Thomas Legein (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)

• Mompó, Adrià; Lupato, Fabio G. – Political parties and their membership: a new role for a declining group in a new environment?
• Boja, Morena – Digital Technologies and Democratic Governance in the Western Balkans: Threats, Opportunities, and Outcomes
• Kouiyache, Omar – Theorizing Reconnection: New Frameworks for Understanding Digital Citizenship
• Martins, Pedro – Refugee Collective Intelligence in the Digital Age: Interactive Methods and the Role of Policymaker Engagement

12:45 – 14:00 Lunch

14:00 – 15:00 Plenary discussion
Synthesis of insights and identification of research priorities and synergies
Chair: Jasmin Fitzpatrick (Action Vice-Chair Relink2 CA23114)

15:15 – 15:30 Closing remarks and next steps
Caroline Close (BrIAS)
Jasmin Fitzpatrick (Action Vice-Chair Relink2 CA23114)