Across Europe there is a rise of political movements that claim to challenge liberal elites and speak for the 'ordinary person' - movements that can be loosely categorised as 'populist'. Many of these movements have undesirable tendencies. The Populism and Civic Engagement project (PACE), with others, aims to combat the negative tendencies of populist movements, to build upon the lessons of positive examples (such as Reykjavik), and hence play a part in constructing a firmer democratic and institutional foundation for the citizens of Europe. PACE will analyse, in detail, the type, growth and consequences of such movements in terms of their particular characteristics and context. From this, it will analyse the causes of these movements and their specific challenges to liberal democracy a possibilistic analysis to complement survey/statistical approaches. In particular, it will focus on transitions in these movements (especially changes in leadership) as well as how they relate to other kinds of movements and the liberal reaction. PACE will propose responses to these challenges, developing risk-analyses for each kind of response, each kind of movement and the type of transition. For this, it will employ the agent-based simulation of political processes and attitudes to allow for thorough risk analyses to be made. Throughout the project, it will engage with citizens and policy actors, especially groups under-represented in public affairs, face-face and via new forms of democratic participation appropriate to our digital age to help guide the project and to comment on its outputs. It will develop new tools, based on machine-learning algorithms for identifying and tracking populist narratives and to aid online consultation. It will result in specific interventions aimed at: the public, politicians, activists and educators. It will look further into the future, developing new visions concerning how we could respond to populism and it will warn about longer-term trends.

<< Objectives >>Within DOCC we will develop a debate youth club model for delivering continuous, long-term programmes for youth participation and active citizenship based on debate and deliberation methodology. The outputs will support youth workers and organisations in engaging youth from immigrant backgrounds and increase their capacity to work with youth with different needs-refugee youth or second-generation immigrant youth. Outputs of the project will directly support 50 youth workers and 120 young people.<< Implementation >>To ensure high-quality outputs, partners will assemble debate model youth clubs with at least 10 young people and at least 3 youth workers per organisation who will be the co-creators and test-implementers of project materials. Their continuous participation will ensure our outputs are in line with the needs of our youth workers and participants. To test the toolkit on deliberation events, we will conduct 4 deliberation events nationally and 1 international online deliberation event.<< Results >>The concrete results are:Debate methodology package: debate youth club curricula and session plans and Train the trainer's toolkit for youth workers to become confident users of debate-based methods in youth work.Deliberation methodology package: a deliberation implementation toolkit, an e-learning course on deliberation set-up and a youth-friendly adaptation of the Your priorities platform to support youth and youth workers to use deliberation to gain practical experience in participation.