The main topics of this working field are the one of participatory governance initiatives convened by public administrations, with a critical appraisal of them; the one of the civic resources for governance, for example in safety policies and in evaluation of services; the one of Citizens in Europe, focusing on the European Union as a multilevel and policentric governance system, that recognizes the citizenry as actor of Community-building.

The engagement in this area aims at overcoming the usual consideration of participation as inclusion of citizens in administrative processes rather than as an outcome of their autonomous initiative that interacts in a non obvious way with the institutions.