The 1st Dialogue on “Platforms for collective awareness and action”, part of the “Internet and societies: new innovation paths” event organized with the support of PARADISO, has been successfully held today at the European Commission in Brussels. This one-day workshop, chaired by Robert Madelin, Director General of European Commission’s DG Information Society and Media, focused on platforms likely to support environmentally aware, grassroots processes and practices to share knowledge, to achieve changes in lifestyle, production and consumption patterns, and to set up more participatory democratic processes. The overall aim was to contribute identifying related multidisciplinary research priorities for the last Call of FP7 and for FP8. After a great number of contributions and lively interaction with the audience, Robert Madelin concluded that the size and complexity of the challenges should not be an excuse for inaction, his last tweet being “great people+2 days of wall-to-wall european/world excellence-#reasonsto believe”. For full details, please visit the Events section of this web site.