Knowledge, information, and trust: A mini-public approach
Work package 4 – Diagnosis
Work package 4 will examine citizen attitudes to scientific information disorder and knowledge circulation, and how these issues impact political trust. This will be done by organising five national and one transnational mini-public in which citizens will frame discussions and formulate policy recommendations, with particular attention to new communication technologies and their implications.
Mini-publics are key to REGROUP research, as it explores the lived experiences of citizens, as well as to empower citizens in EU policy-making for more democratic and resilient crisis governance. Participants will formulate a verdict, which will be presented to the European Parliament.
In 2023, our WP partners organise five national mini-publics:
- Jacques Delors Institute in Paris, France
- University of Groningen in Utrecht, the Netherlands
- Europa-Kolleg Hamburg in Hamburg, Germany
- European University Institute in Florence, Italy
- Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland
In March 2024, the European Policy Centre hosts a transnational mini-public in Brussels.
Team
Lead
Benjamin Leruth, Assistant Professor of European Politics and Society at the University of Groningen.
Timeline
Running from October 2022 to October 2024
Deliverables
Mini-public methodology brief: Designing multi-level mini-publics: The REGROUP experiment on knowledge, information, and trust
