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ON THE ANNIVERSARY OF ROMANIA’S FIRST FREE ELECTIONS ON MAY 20TH 1990, DEMOCRACY REMAINS UNFINISHED.

UNFINISHED DEMOCRACY SEEKS NEW, CREATIVE AND PRODUCTIVE WAYS TO GATHER AND DIALOGUE ACROSS POLITICAL AFFILIATIONS AND DISCIPLINES.

Launched on May 20th, 2023 in an extraordinary evening at the Ateneul Român, the mission of UNFINISHED Democracy is to create concrete and productive dialogue between people across the political spectrum, different branches of government, the business community, civic society and youth in order to have deep discussions about our country and region’s main issues and future.

With democracy faltering within and across borders, this gathering of minds strives to be the hyphen between worlds that typically don’t meet, even if they share both planet and politics.

We believe that democracy needs an urgent upgrade and that we the people have a responsibility to jump in where other structures fall short.

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SUNDAY, MAY 11, 2025

There are four different ways to contribute to UNFINISHED Democracy.

1. Attend our Evening of Democracy at the Ateneul Roman from 19:00 to 21:00 [invitation with RSVP only] or watch live on Digi24.

2. Join the citizens’ consultation from 9:30 to 17:00 and turn your vision for a better democracy into actionable policy recommendations. Participants in the consultations are automatically invited to the Evening of Democracy!

3. Sign your children up to Kids for Democracy from 9:30 to 17:00 to turn their vision for the future into creative public projects.

4. Submit your own ideas or recommendations for better governance so they may inform and inspire this mission.

Poll

DEMOCRACY CONCERNS US ALL

In May 2023, an unprecedented survey on the state of democracy in the region was conducted by Atlas Intel and EIDOS Foundation on the occasion of the launch of UNFINISHED Democracy.

The results of this large-scale public consultation, aimed at producing an MRI of democracy across Romania and the Republic of Moldova, were first presented in the evening of Saturday May 20th 2023. View or download the results here:

Program

UNFINISHED DEMOCRACY 2025

Sunday, May 11, 2025

Daytime program [workshops, consultations and Kids for Democracy | attended by application] takes place at: 
EIDOS Foundation House of Ideas @Casa Universitarilor 
Strada Dionisie Lupu 46, București 010455

Evening program [Evening of Democracy | attended by invitation] takes place at:
Sala Radio
Strada General H. M. Berthelot 60-64, București 030167

Program and registration details coming soon!
In the meantime, help us shape the event better by answering our pre-event survey here.

Lineup

Achilles
Tsaltas

President of the Democracy & Culture Foundation

@atsaltas

Daniel
David

Rector & Professor of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy at the Babeș-Bolyai University,
Cluj-Napoca

Kimberley
Motley

International Human Rights Lawyer

@motleyslaw

The Lord Griffiths
of Burry Port

Member of the House of Lords & Member of the UK Delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) of the Council of Europe

Dana
Dajani

Artist & Poet

@danadajani.poetry

Octavian
Lup

Cellist & Founder of New Hope Music

Ovidiu
Lup

Pianist

Ginny
Badanes

Senior Director, Democracy Forward Initiative, Microsoft

Yuri
Sanches

Head of Political Risk at AtlasIntel

Pedro
Azevedo

Political Risk Analyst at AtlasIntel

Teodora
Tompea

Journalist, News Anchor & “Focus on Europe” Host

@teodora_tompea

Speakers and performers to be announced soon

Organizers & Partners

Organizers

UNFINISHED Democracy was launched in 2023 in partnership with The Democracy and Culture Foundation. It marked a milestone in the three-year-long Building Blocks for Democracy, a first-of-its-kind, citizen-driven project resulting in concrete, detailed policy solutions to issues linked to “the power of the people,” later presented at the 2023 Athens Democracy Forum.

Today, having just experienced the most eventful election year in 2024, we find it crucial to respond to attacks on democratic values witnessed worldwide with a creative, constructive and open debate around citizenry. Our joint effort combines the soft power cultivated by EIDOS Foundation and the rigorous data from Atlas Intel to better inform, contextualize, bridge and empower our continuous conversation.

Eidos Foundation
Atlas Intel

Main partners

Banca Transilvania
Leroy și Asociații

Microsoft

Strategic partners

Politică la minut
Centrul pentru democrație și bună guvernare

Consiliul Rectorilor
Universitatea din București

Universitatea Politehnică din București
The Democracy & Culture Foundation

Technical partners

360 Revolution