Laboratory for Active Citizenship focus on research of institutional and extra-institutional participation of citizens. ActiveLab explore different models of participatory, deliberative and agonistic democracy and their relevance for the development of a democratic society.
Laboratory for Active Citizenship focus on research of institutional and extra-institutional participation of citizens. ActiveLab explore different models of participatory, deliberative and agonistic democracy and their relevance for the development of a democratic society.
The work of the Laboratory for Active Citizenship emerges from many years of continuous empirical and theoretical research in the field, as well as from the application of research results in the policy field and international cooperation with various academic and professional networks in the humanities, social and political sciences.
Laboratory for Active Citizenship aims to:
• establish a formally recognizable center within the Institute that would conduct empirical and theoretical multidisciplinary research, enabling the development of a rich database;
• improve and disseminate knowledge and develop international cooperation in the field of participatory models of democracy and civic political engagement;
• provide policy-making support through the importance of participatory models of democracy and civic political engagement for the democratization of society;
• improve exchange and cooperation between academia, civil society and decision makers;
In line with these goals, the Laboratory for Active Citizenship is implementing the following research projects:
• EnTrust – Enlightened trust: An examination of trust and distrust in governance – conditions, effects and remedies
• Jean Monnet Network: Promoting and Advancing Innovative Democratic Practices in the Western Balkans (2018-2021)
• Disobedient Democracy: A Comparative Analysis of Contentious Politics in European Semi-periphery (2016-2021).
• Learning Democratic Participation
• European Social Survey (2017- )
• Take the City into Your Own Hands: the basics of Citizen Participation (2018-2019)
• Mapping Political Landscape in Serbia (2017)
Jelena Ćeriman (Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, University of Belgrade), Jelena Vasiljević (Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, University of Belgrade), Gazela Pudar Draško (Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, University of Belgrade), Sara Nikolić (Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, University of Belgrade), Marjan Ivković (Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, University of Belgrade), Vujo Ilić (Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, University of Belgrade), Ana Đorđević (Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, University of Belgrade), Jovana Timotijević (Ministry of space collective), Biljana Đorđević (Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Belgrade), Zoran Pavlović (Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade), Ivana Janković (Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade).
Coordinator: Irena Fiket, Senior research Fellow (Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, University of Belgrade), e-mail: fiket@instifdt.bg.ac.rs
