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29/03/2022

Dear Colleague,

We are gearing up for our 4th Public Participation and Deliberative Democracy Festival, which will be held on October 20th and 21st, 2022.

We at the Competence Centre on Participatory and Deliberative Democracy are pleased to announce that the call for expressions of interest to organise a session for the Festival is OPEN! Sessions include a variety formats such as roundtable conversations, panels, interactive games, performances or other forms of exchange.

To coincide with the European Year of Youth, the theme of the Festival this year is ‘Youth Participation’.

ACCESS THE SUBMISSION FORM HERE, and check out the call-to-action below for information on how to submit your application.

We are also accepting applications to showcase projects in our virtual exhibition during the festival. Find out more below also in the call-to-action.

From the Competence Centre Team

Call to action

Submit your session idea for the Festival!

Activities and Events

Conference on the Future of Europe Datathon

The COFE Datathon is reaching its end. Join us for the closing event TOMORROW, 30 March 2022 at 12h00.

Citizen Engagement Training

'Citizen Engagement in Policy Making' training will be held on 28th, 29th April & 6th May inclusive. NB: The current course is currently only available to EU Institution staff on EU Learn, but will be made available to external participants in 2022.

Across the Commission

Helios Project

Coming soon in Verona, Italy! This participatory and interdisciplinary project aims to map the relationship between well-being and mental health, on one side, and the quality of the living environment, on the other, in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.

#OurFutures

You probably have a good idea about what you would like your future to look like. But what about the future of the EU? Click 'more' to find out about this participatory foresight project that seeks to inform policy about the future that Europeans want.

Civic Engagement in the EU Missions

In the context of the French Presidency of the Council of the EU, the French Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation (MESRI) held a High-level Conference on Civic Engagement in the EU Missions in Paris.

Research and Reports

How to link recommendations of citizens assemblies to policy making?

When initiating a deliberative process, policy makers turn to citizens drawn by lot to help them on a particular policy question. If the commissioning authority has not anticipated how it will communicate, respond to, and use the recommendations in the policy process, it can still end up with a perfectly designed citizens’ assembly being evaluated as a failure which would risk even greater disillusionment in government. How can policy-makers avoid this?

Seeing like a citizen: How being a participant in a citizens assembly changed everything I thought I knew about deliberative minipublics

This paper presents a participant-observation account of John Boswell's experience as a randomly selected participant at a Citizens’ Assembly. He reflects on what the unique experience of ‘seeing like a citizen’ can add to accepted understandings and practices of mini-public deliberation.

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