For over fifteen years we have been building a bridge between academia, local government and civil society.
The Aurea Libertas Institute is a non-governmental organization whose mission is to run educational projects, study innovative technologies in society, promote personal liberty and the republican spirit, and provide consulting services to local governments, NGOs and businesses.
Read more →What we do
Social innovation, educational games, AI for civic purposes, e-administration and law-crowdsourcing.
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An educational board game that builds cooperation and resilience skills.
Explore project →CollMind
Training a neural network to detect online disinformation and aggression.
Read more →E-Government 2.0
An interdisciplinary curriculum on e-administration delivered under Erasmus+.
Read more →Republicanism
A series of academic seminars on the political heritage of the former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.
Read more →We promote civic initiatives undertaken for the common good and a culture of responsibility for public affairs — in Poland, Central-Eastern Europe and in dialogue with partners from around the world.
— Charter of the Aurea Libertas Institute Foundation
Selected academic works
Theoretical and practical perspectives on collective intelligence, e-government and civic education.
A Review of Projects Using Collective Intelligence in Policymaking
Olszowski R. — an original method for analysing collective cognitive processes in public-policy making.
ResearchGate →Increasing the Effectiveness of Fake News Detection
Olszowski R. — an educational program training high-school students to detect disinformation using neural networks.
EPESS →Collective Intelligence in management
A hands-on guide to collective intelligence methods — from collaboration platforms to Wikipedia, Threadless and Mechanical Turk.
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We advise local governments, NGOs and businesses — from concept through implementation to reporting.