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Call for Papers [extended deadline]
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CoPDA 2025 - 9th International Workshop on Cultures of Participation in the Digital Age: Sustainability Perspectives and Frameworks for Making Cultures of Participation Successful

https://copda.unimi.it
June 16th, 2025 - Munich, Germany
In conjunction with IS-EUD 2025 (https://iseud2025.ubicomp.net)

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Overview
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This 9th edition of the CoPDA workshop aims to explore the intersection of sustainability and cultures of participation in diverse contexts. As participatory cultures become central to addressing complex global challenges (as defined by the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its 17 Sustainable Development Goals), they require robust sustainability frameworks to ensure their long-term viability. This workshop will examine how environmental, social, economic, technological, and cultural sustainability principles can inform and enhance participatory systems by supporting community-driven design with end-user development. Participants will engage in interactive sessions to identify and discuss strategies for fostering evolution, adaptability, and educational innovation within cultures of participation. The participants will be able to ground, present, and highlight practical frameworks and real-world case studies, focusing on how sustainable participation can amplify collective creativity in coping with wicked problems.

The workshop hopes to attract submissions from researchers and practitioners from various backgrounds and communities, such as designers and users of socio-technical environments, AI researchers, learning scientists, and educators to explore the following fundamental issues:
- Identifying and integrating sustainability principles into design processes.
- Supporting ongoing engagement through meta-design and digital tools.
- Exploring the role of emerging technologies (specifically related to AI and LLMs) in fostering sustainable participation.
- Exploring how involving users in the adaptation of design tools through EUD can help ensure these tools better support sustainability goals.
- Investigating how educational programs and courses can shape visions and scenarios of sustainable communities, helping to anticipate both desired and undesired outcomes.
- Examining what sustainable online communities can learn from the enduring qualities and behaviors of natural systems, like insect colonies and the climate.

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Submissions
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Authors are invited to submit a 6-page position paper using the 1-column CEUR template available at https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/CEURART.zip. An Overleaf page for LaTeX users is also available at https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/template-for-submissions-to-ceur-workshop-proceedings-ceur-ws-dot-org/hpvjjzhjxzjk
The papers can be submitted at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=copda2025
All papers will be peer-reviewed by at least two members of the Program Committee.
Accepted papers will be collected and submitted for publication in CEUR-WS proceedings.

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Important dates
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- NEW April 4th (Extended), 2025: Submission deadline for position papers
- Apr 18th, 2025: Notification of acceptance
- May 10th, 2025: Camera ready
- Jun 16th, 2025: CoPDA 2024 workshop

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Organizing Committee
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Barbara Rita Barricelli (Università degli Studi di Brescia, Italy)
Gerhard Fischer (University of Colorado, Boulder, USA)
Daniela Fogli (Università degli Studi di Brescia, Italy)
Anders Mørch (University of Oslo, Norway)
Antonio Piccinno (Università degli Studi di Bari, Italy)
Stefano Valtolina (Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy)

For any further information, please contact copda2025@easychair.org

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