On the occasion of International Democracy Day, the European Citizen Action Service (ECAS), Dreamocracy, and Smarter Together presented the potential of advanced forms of crowdsourcing for public administration and democracy at EU level. 

We brought together strategic actors of EU policy making and citizen engagement, all driven by the desire to strengthen our democratic model. Participants tested out new innovative methods and learned how to:

• Co-produce solutions on complex policy issues at EU level
• Combine expert-based crowdsourcing with problem solving and scenario planning
• Integrate the agility and diversity of crowdsourcing with careful curation of expertise
• Produce policy relevant forecasts thanks to large numbers of guesses
• Mobilise citizens to help monitor the implementation of EU policies