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Dear EDYN Members,
Are you working on issues related to elections, disinformation, and/or AI? Would you like to contribute your experience to high-level discussions with policymakers, disinformation experts, and civil society actors – and actively help shape solutions, not just listen to them?
Then we warmly invite you to apply for our two-day event in Prague:
May 19 event: “Defending Democracy in the Age of AI: Protecting Electoral Integrity Across Europe” high-level conference, organised by EDYN with the Global Democracy Coalition’s support.
May 20 event: “Democratic Resilience Under Pressure: Addressing Disinformation and Polarisation Beyond Elections” closed-door roundtable, organised by EDYN with Swiss Aid’s support.
Key details
- Arrival: Monday, 18 May
- Departure: Wednesday, 20 May or Thursday, 21 May (depending on trains/flights availability)
- Location: Prague, Czech Republic
- Eligibility: Open to all EDYN members
- Costs: All costs (travel, accommodation, and subsistence) will be covered by EDYN
When applying, please note that you are applying to attend both events. In the form, you will then be asked to select whether you would like to attend the May 19 event as a speaker or as a guest.
To apply, please fill out this short application form 👉 Application form
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We value authentic, personal responses. Applications that appear to rely heavily on AI-generated text will be considered less competitive.
Application deadline: 15 March 2026
If you have any questions, please contact EDYN’s Deputy Director, Carlotta Serioli ([email protected]).
What to expect
May 19 event: The conference will examine how AI-driven disinformation, deepfakes, and synthetic media are reshaping electoral competition and public trust across Europe. The goal is to move beyond diagnosis and generate concrete, practitioner-oriented recommendations that will feed into the Global Democracy Coalition’s 2026 Global Forum process.
We expect around 80 participants, including policymakers, civil society actors, tech and media representatives, researchers, and youth leaders.
In the application form, you will be asked to select whether you would like to attend this event as a speaker or a guest.
If you would like to be a speaker, you will be considered for Panel III – Democracy in Action: Youth Defending Electoral Integrity Across Europe. It will feature three EDYN members who will share their firsthand experience in election observation, political campaigning, party organization, and counter-disinformation initiatives in their country.
This session will ground the dialogue in practical realities and position youth not as observers but as essential actors in safeguarding campaign competition, informed public discourse, and democratic trust. Since the discussion will focus on preparedness for upcoming electoral cycles, we will give particular attention to applicants from countries approaching key elections such as Hungary, Slovakia, Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, and Georgia.
May 20 event: This will be a smaller, closed, working-format roundtable of around 40 participants where attendees will be expected to actively contribute throughout the day to an applied cross-regional exchange among EDYN members and partners.
Through expert inputs and structured working sessions, participants will map democratic stress points, analyze polarisation dynamics, and develop practical cross-border cooperation models and resilience recommendations.
