Biography

Daniela Heimpel works in applied political theory. Her research interests include (citizenship) education, (European) citizenship, democratic innovations, transnational democracy, pluralism, and European integration. Her dissertation focuses on the idea of European citizenship education and on EU education policies and discourses. She also co-directed a collaborative research project on ‘Challenges of Pluralism’ in contemporary liberal societies in Europe and North America.
At the EUI, Daniela will work on citizen participation in Europe. In particular, she is interested in experiments in deliberative and participatory democracy at the EU level. She will investigate whether, how and when participation in such transnational experiments can enhance the capacity of the involved citizens to take part in Europe’s transnational democracy and foster European citizenship education in practice. The project includes two case studies: the Conference on the Future of Europe (2021-2022) and the European Citizens’ Panels organised by the European Commission (2022-2023). Daniela will also be joining the Democratic Odyssey team.
Daniela is a postdoctoral researcher and co-director of the research group ‘The State, Norms, and Political Conflicts’ at the Centre Marc Bloch. Previously, she worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Montreal Centre for International Studies (CÉRIUM) and as a research associate at the Institute for Sustainability Studies in Potsdam (RIFS, project ‘Franco-German Forum for the Future’). She holds a PhD in Political Science from the Université de Montréal and the Université de Nantes (2021).

Research projects, clusters and working groups

• Transnational Democracy in the 21st century

Mentor

• Claudio Radaelli

Mentor

• Kalypso Nicolaidis