Meeting in the Hague, The Netherlands
In mid-December 2025, the lexi.eco project team met for a two-day project meeting that marked a transition from conceptual groundwork to concrete platform development. Bringing together partners from across Europe, the meeting focused on shaping the project’s digital presence, refining editorial and translation frameworks, and aligning content development with long-term sustainability.
A central moment of the meeting was the presentation of the draft lexi.eco website, developed in collaboration with Studio Plural. Using self-determination as a prototype, the design demonstrated how complex concepts can be presented in a visually engaging and pedagogically accessible way. The proposed interface combines modular texts, expert interviews, and spatial navigation, underscoring lexi.eco’s ambition to function as a living, evolving Open Educational Resource rather than a static reference work.
Discussions also addressed the scholarly infrastructure of the platform. Participants agreed on clear standards for authorship, citation, versioning, and transparency, ensuring that each entry remains traceable and citable over time. Particular attention was given to multilingual accessibility, with a shared commitment to developing a structured translation strategy that preserves conceptual integrity while extending the project’s European reach.
Alongside digital and editorial questions, the meeting reviewed the state of content development across a growing range of concepts, from “democracy” and “empire” to “environment”, “freedom”, and “memory”. Plans were refined for internal and external peer review, as well as for integrating entries into teaching contexts, including the Blended Intensive Programme scheduled for October 2026 in Bielefeld.
The meeting concluded with a forward-looking agenda focused on sustainability, partnerships, and future projects. With key design decisions in place and content production advancing steadily, lexi.eco is now moving decisively toward its next phase: becoming a shared European platform for critically engaging with the concepts that shape public debate.
