Dear colleagues, I am writing on behalf of the European Digital Democracy Network (https://www.eddy-network.eu/). We are an interdisciplinary network that aims to bring together academics and practitioners actively working on or with digital democracy, to foster collaboration and knowledge exchange. After organizing several successful online events, we are now announcing our first in-person event, with keynote speakers from different scientific disciplines, including  political science (Fabrizio Gilardi, Digital Democracy Lab, University of Zurich and Carolina Plescia, University of Vienna), and practice. So far, our network mostly reached practitioners and academics from computer science and philosophy, but is missing the voice of political science, which is so crucial to the discussion of digital democracy. Therefore, we would be delighted to receive proposals for contributed talks from political scientists and to see you in Rotterdam in April. For more information, see the Call for Contributions below. Best regards, Jan Maly Call for Contributions: ‘Digital Democracy: Bridging Theory and Practice’, 1st Conference of the European Network for Digital Democracy, Rotterdam (The Netherlands) The European Digital DemocracY network <https://www.eddy-network.eu/> (EDDY) aims to bring together academics and practitioners actively working on or with digital democracy, to foster collaboration and knowledge exchange. After a successful series of online events, EDDY is proud to announce its first in-person conference, ‘Digital Democracy: Bridging Theory and Practice’, taking place at the Erasmus University of Rotterdam, The Netherlands, from *Tuesday 9 April to Thursday 11 April 2024*. The event will feature contributed talks through an open call (see below), a range of social and interactive sessions (networking, round-table discussions, demo sessions, student sessions, etc.), and a variety of academic and non-academic keynote speakers: Markus Brill <https://sites.google.com/site/brillmarkus/> (University of Warwick), Corinne Cath <https://corinnecath.com/> (Delft University of Technology, University of Cambridge), Fabrizio Gilardi <https://fabriziogilardi.org/> (Digital Democracy Lab, University of Zurich), Carolina Plescia <https://www.carolinaplescia.com/> (University of Vienna), and Simon Strohmenger <https://www.linkedin.com/in/simon-strohmenger-296725236/> (CONSUL, Mehr Demokratie). We are opening two tracks for selected contributions at the conference: the /talks/ track and the /demos/ track. If you are an academic or a practitioner whose work is related to digital democracy, we invite you to submit a one-page description/abstract via this Oxford Abstracts page <https://app.oxfordabstracts.com/stages/6984/submitter>, by *1 February 2024* to either of our tracks: * *Talks track*. Selected talks will be given 20-30 minutes presentation time in the program. There will be no proceedings associated with the conference, so you are welcome to submit work that has been previously published by other conferences, journals, and so on. * *Demos track*. Selected demos will take place in parallel during a dedicated session, where you will be given access to a table and internet connection (‘bring your own laptop’ setup). Participants of the conference will be able to freely roam and join the different demos. We welcome contributions from both academics and practitioners on any of the following topics, in relation to digital democracy: online deliberation, liquid democracy, the public sphere, apps and tools for online decision-making, machine learning, crowdsourcing, the digital divide, participatory budgeting, computational social choice, digital identities, social media, popular will, cryptocurrencies & blockchain, secrecy vs. publicity of votes and opinions. We particularly welcome submissions by students and early career scholars or practitioners. Contributions will be selected on the basis of their connection to EDDY’s goals, with an eye toward the conference’s multi-, cross-disciplinary target audience and the diversity of projects and contributors. Depending on the number of submissions, some contributions may be selected for a poster presentation instead. Notification of acceptance will be sent by 15 February 2024. This event is made possible thanks to funding and support by the Dutch Research Council (NWO) via Frederik Van De Putte’s VIDI project ENCODE and Ulle Endriss’s VICI project Collective Information, by the Erasmus School of Philosophy, Erasmus University of Rotterdam, and by the Erasmus Initiative Societal Impact of AI. For more information, see our website <https://www.eddy-network.eu/in-person-conference/> or write to contact@eddy-network.eu to contact any of EDDY’s core committee members: Jan Maly (TU Wien), Ashley Maum (Framer Framed), Arianna Novaro (Paris 1 University), Frederik van de Putte (Erasmus University Rotterdam).