Politools has acquired international experience through the implementation of various smartvote projects abroad. Due to the increasing interest, a new version of the smartvote application was developed that can easily be adapted to a wide range of political contexts (i.e. types of elections, types of political systems, levels of civic education, etc.).
Previous projects abroad:
- Kosovo 2025: smartvote Kosovo is a project of Kosovo Democratic Institute and Politools. The project was supported by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) and the Luxembourg Development Cooperation (kosova.smartvote.org).
- Lichtenstein 2025: In 2017 and 2025 Politools provided a version of smartvote in collaboration with the Liechtenstein-Institut (www.wahlhilfe.li).
- Austria 2024: For the national elections 2024, Politools has again provided a version of smartvote in collaboration with the University of Vienna (austria.smartvote.org).
- EU – European Parliament election 2009-2024: Politools worked in collaboration with the consortium that developed a VAA (EU Profiler and VoteMatch Europe) for the 2009, 2019 and 2024 EU elections (2024.smartwielen.lu).
- Luxemburg – General election 2009, 2013 and 2018, 2019 & 2023: Since 2009, Politools has provided a version of smartvote in collaboration with the University of Luxembourg. For the elections in 2018, 2019 and 2023 the team was joined by the Zentrum for politesch Bildung and the Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER) (2023.smartwielen.lu).
- Tibet 2021: smartvote Tibet was an initiative of the association “Project Democracy”. The smartvote tool was implemented for the Tibetan General Elections 2021 (tibet.smartvote.org).
- Australia – Federal election in 2019 and the regional election in the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) in 2020 : smartvote International was implemented in collaboration with the Australian National University (ANU) in Canberra (australia.smartvote.org).
- Austria – National legislative election 2008 and 2013: Politikkabine.at was developed and implemented in collaboration with the Donau University Krems and other partners.
- Scotland – General election 2007: On behalf of the University of Edinburgh, an online voting aid “Holyrood2007” was developed and programmed for the 2007 Scottish general election.
Contact: Carine Hunziker