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Rebuilding the Polis: How MyPolis Is Turning Citizenship Into a Game Worth Playing

Inside Portugal’s most playful experiment in democracy — where students don’t study citizenship, they build it.

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Oct 18, 2025
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The Lost Art of Belonging

In a classroom in Torres Vedras, the walls are covered not with slogans, but with sticky notes — hundreds of them, layered in color like a collective brain.
Each one holds an idea: a bike lane here, a community garden there, better street lighting near the school, a festival that brings everyone together.

The students aren’t polit…

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