Empowering every voice: Dutch AI startup joins European research consortium

Dembrane joins AI4Deliberation, a €3M European research consortium of 13 organisations building AI-powered tools to revitalise democratic participation. This consortium will develop open-source solutions that bridge the growing gap between citizens and their representatives.

Democracy is struggling, with a growing distance between citizens and elected representatives. Communities willing to champion the democratic process lack effective ways to come together, share their voices, and turn their collective wisdom into meaningful impact. The European Commission (the executive branch of the EU) recognizes these challenges. In response, the Commission has allocated significant funding for organizations to explore solutions to these problems.

This year, Dembrane joined forces with 12 other European organizations to submit a €3M research proposal, which has recently been accepted by the European Commission. The consortium (a group of collaborating organizations) ranges from universities to non-profits, and from large IT consultancies to small award-winning software projects. What unites them is their expertise in the intersection between AI and Democracy.

What Dembrane does

Dembrane has developed an innovative tool for analyzing large-scale conversational data. Rooted in research on democracy and deliberation methods such as cross-pollination and sortition, their approach uniquely integrates AI with democratic innovations. This fusion aims to create scalable deliberation infrastructure, offering a groundbreaking solution for fostering informed and inclusive discussions.

Dembrane is one of the winners of the Gerard and Anton Awards.

Gerard & Anton winner Dembrane aims to make democratic processes accessible to all types of organizations at all levels

This week we are highlighting the winners of the Gerard and Anton Awards. Today: Dembrane.

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