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At a time when information circulates at unprecedented speed, when knowledge is constantly evolving, when opinions clash, and manipulations can undermine democratic debate, cultivating critical thinking is a vital civic imperative. Understood as the ability to sort, analyze, and qualify information to form, as freely as possible, an enlightened judgment, it is essential today to the exercise of citizenship.
Every year, the Printemps de l’esprit critique explores a topical theme to shape its programming. Following vaccination (2022), global warming (2023), artificial intelligence (2024), food (2025), and money (2026), democracy was chosen as the common thread for this sixth 2027 edition.