Leadership, Democracy and Participation

This article is about a course (on democracy and participation) to be administered online within the international project funded by the European Union – VirtuEU. This project is directed at involving Western Balkan youths in online exchanges with youths from Portugal and Greece and also youths invited by the Belgian partner EVBB. The topic of this article and course is democracy and participation – which cannot be disassociated from leadership – hence the inclusion of the latter in the discussion. Bibliometric analyses were done (using VOSviewer) and accompanied by a glance at the literature on leadership, democracy and participation. The text also includes excerpts and concepts from the artificial intelligence (AI) platform perplexity.ai, followed by the author’s perspectives on the subject, inviting the reader to reflect on certain issues and debates in democratic society today.