Multilingual and Multicultural Spaces for Political Deliberation
Enhancing democratic dialogue through bias-identifying AI tools
GA number: 101178821
Funded by: HORIZON Duration: 01/12/2024-30/10/2027

Challenge
Global issues have complex roots and repercussions, often only partially perceived at the national level in distributed international contexts and exacerbated by entrenched thinking within cultural and linguistic groups. At the same time, cross-national political changes affecting regulations in a given country might implicate European policymaking.
The interplay between siloed national interactions and political/cultural contexts affects global
events in complex ways. Cultural and linguistic barriers exacerbate groupthink, the bandwagon effect and a lack of diversity in local dialogue and perspectives around issues of international relevance. Socio-political and technological solutions can help overcome barriers to participation in political deliberations and ensure effective communication between European cultural and linguistic groups, as highlighted in the Conference on the Future of Europe (CoFE) (Proposals 1, 6, 22, 25, 31, 33, 35 and 36).
Innovation
MultiPoD aims to tackle barriers in political participation and improve political dialogue by creating an open, context-aware, multilingual, and cross-cultural platform for citizen deliberation across Europe. By developing advanced Generative AI tools, such as a culture-specific Language Model (CSLM) and Knowledge Graph (CSKG), it seeks to reduce biases and polarisation during political debates, thus promoting democratic values and fostering inclusion.
Action

Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Research executive Agency. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.
Project Partners


(Coordinator)


Greece

United Kingdom

Spain

Austria

Belgium