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• Web I'm 64 (past) The expansion of the internet has distributed itself unevenly across the generations. Around 70% of people over 65 do not use the internet, compared to 30% of the overall population. Elderly people also experience some extreme forms of social exclusion; for example, 300,000 older people have gone a full month without speaking to family or neighbours.
  
  Will the ‘age based digital divide’ fade away or is it here to stay? The connections between old people‘s digital and social exclusion remain unclear. Exactly what does the internet do for old people? Can it help make for a better old age? Researchers: Celia Hannon Peter Bradwell 3 Bookmarks 10 Themes
• Children of Europa New Europe is not a place, it’s a young person. Committees, constitutions and commissions may hold Europe together as a political project, but it is people that hold it together as a cultural entity. This project will look at the aspirations of geographical Europe’s youngest generation, focusing particular on the way they make and exchange new-media with one another. Researchers: Celia Hannon Charlie Tims 210 BlogPosts 1449 Bookmarks 95 Themes
• The Everyday Democracy Index What are the most democratic countries in Europe? How would we find out? We could look at electoral turnouts. But while elections matter, Demos doesn’t believe that democracy is something that should start and finish at the ballot box.
  
   That’s why we’re developing the Everyday Democracy Index (EDI). EDI is a tool for assessing the democratic health of European countries across many different dimensions. That includes the formal dimensions of democracy, like procedural rights and election turnout. But it also includes more everyday features of democracy – how important democratic principles and practices are to the cultures of workplaces, to people’s community life, to the way they interact with public services, and even to the way they talk to their friends and family. Researchers: Kirsten Bound Paul Skidmore 6 BlogPosts 2 Bookmarks 8 Themes
• Northern Lights Seminar Series (past) A seminar series to discuss social innovation and explore the secrets of the Nordic Model Researchers: Catherine Fieschi 2 BlogPosts 6 Themes
• Happy Families (past) Demos have partnered up with Relate to explore how happiness is experienced in every day family life. Happiness is rising up the political agenda, but the debate focuses on how to measure it - we want to get beyond that and explore the factors that impact on people daily and question whether the government is really best placed to improve peoples' happiness. 2 BlogPosts 4 Bookmarks 15 Themes
• Atlas of Ideas 2.0 The Atlas of Ideas is mapping changes in the global geography of science and innovation - pinpointing where innovation is coming from and where it is heading.
  
  So far our work has focused on China, India and South Korea, but Phase 2.0 sees Demos extend this work to include an ambitious study of science in the Islamic world; a focus on the innovation potential of Brazil; a closer look at 'knowledge nomads'; and the prospects for a low-carbon China. Researchers: Charles Leadbeater Jack Stilgoe 30 BlogPosts 42 Bookmarks 39 Themes

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