Scholarship Programme for Indigenous and Afro-descendant Students
Education / Human rights
Cultivating Democracy: Recipes for Resilience was an initiative that aimed to foster a collective process of reflection, exchange, and action to address the challenges confronting our democracies. In a context marked by weakened civic bonds, growing citizen disengagement, and the spread of polarizing narratives, the project sought to sow ideas, strategies, and narratives that would renew commitment to the public sphere and to democratic values.
Through a participatory, critical, and results-oriented methodology, the process was structured around three main pillars:
- Contextual analysis to identify risk factors and opportunities for democratic resilience.
- Collective dialogue, through in-person spaces designed to enhance co-creation and collaboration across diverse profiles.
- Proposal development that could be implemented within institutional, social, and community initiatives.
The research phase combined interviews, a literature review and case studies, alongside a curated selection of relevant transformative experiences from different regions. Subsequently, a think tank event was held, bringing together voices from civil society to promote cross-sectoral approaches and a pluralistic and inclusive dialogue; the conclusions of this event were set out in a document.
The overall research process culminated in a proposal document that systematized the learnings, tools, and strategic frameworks developed collectively. This document was shared with institutions, civil society organizations, and citizen networks, with the aim of inspiring new initiatives and fostering coordinated efforts in support of a more vibrant, just, sustainable, and intergenerational democracy.
This project was co-financed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation, through the Secretariat of State for Foreign and Global Affairs.
