Events

Find out more and register for the Citizen Participation and Deliberative Democracy Festival in Brussels from June 12-14th.

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Join our regular 'CC-Corners' with the Competence Centre Team and find out more about our work.

As preparations for the 5th edition of the Citizen Participation and Deliberative Democracy Festival are picking-up steam, we are happy to announce that the Festival website has been published.

The European Citizens' Engagement Platform went live this month, and the latest round of citizens' panels kicks off today.

A call is open for proposals of citizen engagement projects and resources to exhibit their work at the Participatory and Deliberative Democracy Festival in Brussels in 2024.

Check out our events page to see what's coming up in the year ahead, including workshops, conferences and more.

CC-DEMOS is developing a training package for EU public administrations at local, regional and national level to support their capacity in engaging citizens in policymaking through co-creation and deliberative processes.

On May 26, the CC-DEMOS organised a workshop in Ispra, in our Collaborative Space, in partnership with the H2020 Arctic Passion consortium, titled 'Curating matters of care in the Arctic: What does knowledge co-creation look like for policymaking?'

CC-DEMOS initiated a study on the impacts of citizen engagement in policymaking. Read the short follow-up summary.

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Do not miss the deadline for registrations: Wednesday, 19 April!

We are happy to announce that the final event of the Helios – An Healthy Mind in an Healthy Ecosystem project will be held in Verona on Saturday March 18, 10:30-12:15, kindly hosted by the University of Verona. Highlights of the project as well as its outcomes will be presented, with the participation of local citizens that joined the research process! The event will be held in Italian / L'evento si terrà in italiano.

The next ‘Meet the Competence Centre!’ corner will be held on September 18 and October 25, from 2 pm to 5 pm. The Competence Centre is happy to meet members of the Community of Practice or to address specific questions concerning citizen engagement. If interested, book your 30 minutes slot!

'Citizen Engagement in Policy Making' training will be held on April 20-21, 2023. Four modules, covering the rationales for citizen engagement, principles of best practice, as well as applied tools for running participatory activities, will be distributed along two full days of online training.

We continue the mapping of the Community to understand the expertise and topics of interest that lie within it. Particularly we would like to hear from you on how you might like to play a role and on what, so we could support you better. Please fill out the short survey we prepared (approximately 5 minutes)!

This interactive workshop asked: how can honeybee decision-making be applied in human collective decision-making?

This seminar on February 16 discusses the institutional challenges to co-creation encountered by local partners from ten European cities involved in the BiodiverCities project.

Want to play a meaningful part of our Community of Practice for the Competence Centre on Participatory and Deliberative Democracy? We want to hear from you!

Take a look back at the highlights and insights of the Festival