The long term strategic objective of HubIT is to contribute to the high level of European research and innovation and ensure that H2020 funded and further ICT related innovation is responsible, inclusive and aimed at reversing inequalities. The direct objective of HubIT is to build a hub that will activate and improve constructive and co-creating interactions between SSH and ICT disciplines in developing and implementing a shared vision of inclusive HubIT will activate constructive interactions between the stakeholders forming the RRI-SSH eco-system via various network and engagement activities embedded intro the WP structure, that have the overall goal of developing a tangible European Framework Model for implementing responsible and inclusive ICT research and innovation. The Framework Model is a comprehensive set of jointly developed and used definitions, guidelines and tools for enforcing RRI and SSH issues in ICT research and innovation: • The concept of responsible R&I • Matrix of the key challenges • Tool for assessment of RRI and SSH perspectives in ICT within an organisation • Guidelines for responsible ICT R&I informed by SSH • Best Practice Repository • Fact Sheets and Policy briefs • Key measurable success indicators • Policy Recommendations • Virtual Matching Catalogue • HubIT exploitation plan The mechanisms for network building, engagement and awareness rising embedded in the WP structure are: • Advisory Board workshops • Expert Group workshops • Community building and knowledge sharing – national network events, thematic workshops, policy, SSH researchers and ICT industries workshops • Practical collaborations and experimentation - Common Ground Camps, Interactive ICT Labs, Inclusive Hackathons In total 35 network activities are implemented and in total 1140 participants. HubIT online platform will be the interactive environment, where the project tools and services can be accessed in modular, visually attractive and dynamic way.

Deliberative and participatory processes currently lack full legitimacy due to the exclusion and marginalisation of several vulnerable communities from democratic spaces. iDEM will address this issue in the context of marginalisation and exclusion of people who need support to fully be able to read, write and comprehend language (around six million individuals in the EU and over 90 million people globally). iDEM will lay the theoretical foundations for the analysis of current marginalisation from deliberative processes of diverse under-represented groups due to language skills and propose, implement, and evaluate inclusive deliberative and participatory spaces. It will adopt a user-centred approach for making participatory processes more accessible and inclusive, developing advanced natural language processing technologies and artificial intelligence to empower under-represented groups with tools to facilitate communication and dialog in democratic spaces. iDEM will co-create the next-generation multilingual models aimed at (1) detecting possible sources of problems in understanding messages and biases for several European languages and audiences, (2) automatically adapting texts in those languages to be accessible and unbiased for these audiences, (3) providing AI tools for enhancing the controllable generation of messages and discourses. iDEM will innovate democratic spaces with customised, user-centric technology enhancing the participation and representation of marginalised groups by providing unbiased and inclusive technology. To do so, iDEM will also build on the results of relevant past projects, and seek collaboration with related projects and relevant centres for democracy in Europe.

Digital youth participation empowers young people to become active citizens from local to European level. However, the positive effects only unfold when the participation process is run professionally – just to use digital tools is not enough to inspire young, administrations and youth organizations to collaborate. Unfortunately, potential initiators often lack experience, personnel and financial resources needed to plan and conduct a successful e-participation project. This is a reason why first-time pilot projects may fail due to the many unknown challenges and efforts, leading to frustration among participants. The Erasmus+ Strategic Partnership project “DIGY - Digital youth participation made easy” aims to tackle this problem by delivering qualification and capacity building for initiators of digital youth participation projects. The materials designed will be integrated into the OPIN platform, a professional online tool-box for digital youth participation that is already available in 10 European languages. Thus, the European-wide infrastructure for digital youth participation is strengthened and enriched by modules to increase the know-how on how to run a successful digital youth participation project. This is realized in various ways: - by establishing a vivid community of project initiators on OPIN: a space for peer-to-peer knowledge exchange, collaboration and advice (“Opin Community and Forum”). - by designing high-quality online learning materials and trainings, consisting of text-based resources as well as audio and video materials (“e-Learning Materials and Section”). The materials will support initiators in the project planning and implementation phase of their project.- by creating a “Best Practice Living Lab” which will develop a Best Practice example section on OPIN,- as well as a “Re-design of the Opin Platform”, by optimizing the navigation and user interface on the platform and improving the administrator workflow for setting-up and configuring a new project. The Section for Best Practice examples and e-learning materials will be created and the platform will be optimized for the display of various formats, such as audio- and video files.Through all these activities, DIGY will in the long term contribute to a lively landscape of digital youth participation in Europe. With OPIN, a professional yet cost-free and easy-to-use tool is available and well-known in the community. Youth worker benefit from a new qualification and professional development, the number of fairly executed participation projects increases and by this, the inherent potential of youth participation unfolds in all European countries. Young people who participate in the projects will experience an increase of communication skills, media literacy and democratic competencies. The positive interaction with decision-makers leads to a growth of trust in democratic processes and institutions which in turn encourages active citizenship and public engagement. The result has a stabilizing and activating effect on the political system. The platform will be open to be used for free by any person or institution during the duration of the project and after the project termination.The results of the project will be developed by a consortium of 7 partners from all over Europe, who bring in valuable country-specific knowledge and experiences which will be fed-in to the creation of the IOs. Besides experts on participation like nexus, the coordinator, who is since 20 years giving consultancy on participation and doing scientific research in the field and Liquid Democracy, the technical provider and one of the first players in digital youth participation in Europe, the consortium includes 4 youth organizations from Macedonia, Georgia, Slovenia and Malta, who will pilot the DIGY results. Additionally with CREATIVITAS an Erasmus+-proven dissemination partner is on board to make sure that the project results are reaching youth organizations all over Europe.