Science cafés are an informal and innovative way of communicating science and providing for grassroot social innovation and citizens empowerment. SciCafe2.0 supported:

• A portable Virtual Platform and Observatory for Crowd Sourcing

• Local and global scale knowledge sharing and co-evolution of ideas

• Participative management to enable inclusive, e-democratic and co-creative consensus solution-seeking responsive to societal challenges such as global warming, energy, biomedicine, privacy, security

• Methodologically-guided experiments to evaluate various approaches for engaging the citizens in the democratic consultative process

• A framework of normative forms and associated models

• Collectively informed reflective practice at various levels