The EU funded Horizon Europe project Fostering capacity building for civic resilience and participation: Dialogic communication ethics and accountability
What’s the problem? The existing framework of public communication does not empower citizens to influence the ways the media institutions and actors operate in European democracies. Digital communication enormously expands the ways of human inte
raction for good, but also challenges European societies by spread of hate speech, disinformation, and instigation of conflicts. DIACOMET contributes to the advancement of ethical and accountable communication by fostering capacity building for civic resilience against information distortions and promoting civic accountability. DIACOMET aims to generate a concept of dialogic communication ethics (DCE), which would provide a framework for an inclusive model of accountability mechanisms that combine media accountability (the level of organisations) with civic accountability (the level of citizens) and is guided by a Civic Code of Good Communication Conduct (CGC) (a new type of code of communication ethics). DIACOMET will also create an interactive ‘dilemma game’ and a forum for learning and discussion. DIACOMET proposes to establish a European network of civic accountability bodies for supporting individuals, groups and organizations to implement the CGC, and to assist in managing ethical issues emerging in public communication. Consortium partners from 8 countries:
- Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania (Coordinator)
- University of Tartu, Estonia
- Tampere University, Finland
- Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria
- University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
- University of Applied Sciences Utrecht, Netherlands
- Hungarian Europe Society, Hungary
- Praxis Centre for Policy Studies, Estonia
- Delfi UAB, Lithuania
- Universita della Svizzera italiana, Switzerland (Associated partner)
*The project is funded by the European Union's Horizon Europe Culture, creativity and inclusive society programme, grant agreement ID: 101094816.
