The SciCafe2.0 project is funded under the FP7 program. The project aimed to: • identify participatory methodologies for an inclusive, co-creative society, to build an e-democracy capable of responding to societal challenges; • build a virtual platform and observatory for crowdsourcing, capable of supporting participatory methodologies and decision-making; • conduct methodologically guided experiments to evaluate various approaches for engaging citizens and appropriately selected communities in the democratic consultation process and sharing the resulting ideas, collected and structured within a collective intelligence process. In particular, the Social and Computational Informatics unit provided the Scicafè Tool platform and its participatory features, configured based on the PLAKSS platform.