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REDefine // Civic Intelligence Podcast
by By REDefine — Association for Research, Education and Development
REDefine Civic Intelligence is a podcast about the systems shaping everyday life — often long before most of us notice them. We look at Europe, democracy, technology, public policy, civic participation and the institutions quietly deciding how societies work, then go beyond the press release to ask what those decisions actually mean for people, organisations and communities.Each episode takes a serious idea and makes it understandable without flattening it. We follow the connections between policy and practice, regulation and behaviour, institutions and ordinary life, with evidence, real examples and the occasional dry observation when bureaucracy earns one. From EU laws and democratic resilience to AI, digital infrastructure, youth participation, sustainability and the future of European cooperation, REDefine Civic Intelligence is for people who want more than headlines — and are curious about what is happening underneath them. <a href="https://associationredefine.substack.
Episodes
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EU in Practice: The AI Act Is Already Here. Just Not All at Once.
If you opened a customer-service chat this morning and were told that you were speaking to AI, that notice sits inside a rule that already applies. If an employer buys an AI system to screen job applications today, the full set of AI Act requirements for that kind of high-risk system will not…
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The Illusion of Ownership: Why Perfectly Good Tech Dies
We often talk about technology as if it simply “gets old.” A laptop stops receiving updates. A battery becomes impossible to replace. A sensor still works, but the software around it no longer does. A small failure suddenly decides the fate of an entire device. This short explainer looks at the...
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EU in Practice: The European Digital Identity Wallet
Someone asks whether you are over 18. You hand over an identity card. They now know much more than whether you are over 18. Your full name is there. Your exact date of birth. Your photograph. Your nationality. A document number. Depending on what you handed over, perhaps several other pieces of...
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The Open School
Schools teach far more than what appears on the timetable. Every platform, login, data trail and digital workflow also teaches students something about ownership, privacy, dependence, agency and who gets to shape the systems around them. This short explainer looks at the hidden curriculum inside...
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The 28th Europe
Europe has 27 Member States, but one of the more intriguing ideas in its current competitiveness debate is a 28th regime: a European corporate framework that could sit alongside national systems rather than replacing them. In this episode, we unpack what EU Inc. could actually change for a…
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EU in Practice: Canada and Europe Are Getting Closer. But What Exactly Are They Building?
The European Union is generally rather fond of categories. There are Member States, candidate countries, potential candidates, European Economic Area countries, associated countries, strategic partners, third countries associated with individual programmes and third countries very specifically…
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EU in Practice: Can You Still Call It “Green”?
Most of us have probably noticed that the humble leaf has had quite a career in marketing. Once confined largely to trees, it eventually discovered packaging design and has never looked back. It now lives on shampoo bottles, hotel websites, trainers, electricity tariffs, washing liquid, clothing...
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Europe’s Open Source Moment: Why Digital Sovereignty Cannot Be Built Only with Slogans
You send an email, save a document, open a school platform, retrieve a patient record or ask an AI assistant to summarise the report you absolutely intended to read yourself. The action takes seconds and feels almost weightless. Yet underneath it sits a technological system of remarkable physical...
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EU in Practice: Your Phone May Soon Have More Than One Brain
When Your Phone Answers, Who is Allowed to Speak? You ask your phone for help. Maybe you are cooking and your hands are covered in flour, or driving, or late, or half-charged, or trying to remember whether the meeting is at 10:00 or 10:30 while also pretending you are not annoyed with the entire...
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A Virtual Parliament: Why Democracy Needs Practice, Not Just Participation
Democracy is often taught as a system to understand, and discussed as a problem to solve. But it is rarely treated as a practice, something people must experience in order to learn. The EU Democracy Campus was built around a simple observation: democratic breakdown does not come from a lack of...
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Illegible Systems: Why Institutions Resist Change
Reform fails not because people resist change, but because institutions inherit decades of emotional and procedural memory.This video explains the ghost layer: the invisible structure that absorbs, dilutes, or reinterprets reform before it ever reaches citizens.Watch the explainer, then read the...
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Micro-Repair for Macro-Change
A guide to the tiny emotional tools that help us stay resilient, clear, and engaged in a complex world. In this video, we explore three powerful micro-repairs: 🌿 The 1% Shift — the smallest action that changes your direction🧭 The Emotional Audit — a simple reset for clarity and emotional...
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What did 300 youth debates across Europe teach us about thinking, dialogue, and democracy?
This short video captures the real lessons we learned from working with over a thousand young people through the Youth4Peace and EU Democracy Campus projects — in classrooms, community hubs, and immersive virtual spaces. You’ll see how young people transformed debate when the environment…
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Peace for Our Time
This video is the visual version to our essay “Peace For Our Time” — a look back at the choreography of 1938 and the strange familiarity it carries today. It’s not a history lesson so much as a mirror: how a document, a smile, and a carefully staged declaration can offer reassurance long before...
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Democracy in 3D: How the EU Democracy Campus Reimagined Learning for a New Generation
What if democracy could be experienced — not just explained? Inside the EU Democracy Campus, over 1,000 young Europeans from Portugal and Türkiye stepped into a fully immersive virtual replica of the European Parliament.They debated, collaborated, disagreed — and discovered what democracy feels...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
REDefine Civic Intelligence is a podcast about the systems shaping everyday life — often long before most of us notice them. We look at Europe, democracy, technology, public policy, civic participation and the institutions quietly deciding how societies work, then go beyond the press release to ask what those decisions actually mean for people, organisations and communities.Each episode takes a serious idea and makes it understandable without flattening it. We follow the connections between policy and practice, regulation and behaviour, institutions and ordinary life, with evidence, real examples and the occasional dry observation when bureaucracy earns one. From EU laws and democratic resilience to AI, digital infrastructure, youth participation, sustainability and the future of European cooperation, REDefine Civic Intelligence is for people who want more than headlines — and are curious about what is happening underneath them.
<a href="https://associationredefine.substack.
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By REDefine — Association for Research, Education and Development
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