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Interview with Nadia Pellefigue – Vice President of the Occitania Region
Join us for an insightful interview with Nadia Pellefigue, Vice President of the Occitanie Region, as she discusses the importance and impact of deliberative democracy in local engagement. In this exclusive conversation, Nadia Pellefigue shares her experiences and the...
Interview with Prof. Isernia – EuComMeet Project Coordinator
Join us for an enlightening interview with Pierangelo Isernia, the coordinator of the EuComMeet project, as he explores the significance and outcomes of deliberative democracy in enhancing democratic engagement across Europe. In this exclusive conversation, Pierangelo...
Empowering Democracy: Ingrid Godkin highlights the growing role of Citizens’ Panels and democratic innovation in the EU
Ms. Ingrid Godkin, Member of Commissioner Dubravka Šuica's Cabinet (Commissioner for Democracy and Demography), delivered a speech at the EuComMeet Final Event "Just Transition and Participatory Democracy" which took place at the European Committee of the Regions on...
Report “Just transition and participatory democracy – Lesson learned from H2020 EuComMeet project”
Introduction The EuComMeet project explores ways of systematically embedding deliberative practices and institutions within the European Union’s multi-level system of governance and representation. It also investigates how deliberation and participation can help...
Final Conference “Just Transition & Participatory Democracy: Lessons Learned from H2020 EuComMeet Project”
PRESS RELEASE Brussels – On 26 June 2024, the final event of the EuComMeet project, titled "Just Transition & Participatory Democracy: Lessons Learned from H2020 EuComMeet Project" (AGENDA), was held at the European Committee of the Regions. This event marked the...
Bolstering Europe’s democracies from the grassroots
From neighbourhood panels to EU-wide exchanges, European researchers are devising new ways to involve people in decision-making in a bid to counter political polarisation. In April 2024, the trial of nine people accused of plotting the violent overthrow of the...
Creating citizen spaces to encourage democratic engagement
Europe’s capacity to overcome challenges and crises rests, at least in part, on having a healthy representative democracy. If citizens are not part of the decision-making process, or if they feel ignored, overcoming difficulties becomes that much harder. “One solution...
Overview of the EuComMeet main experiment results
From 8th May to 17th June, the EuComMeet consortium has put in place its ambitious goal of connecting groups of citizens from five different European Union countries (Italy, Ireland, France, Germany, and Poland) through participatory online spaces. The nearly 400...
The EuComMeet Partners at the ECPR General Conference 2023
University of Stuttgart Together with other EuComMeet consortium members, the research team from the University of Stuttgart, consisting of André Bächtiger and Seraphine Arnold, participated in the ECPR General Conference 2023, held in the city of Prague. This...
EuComMeet main event: a word from the members of the European Committee of the Regions
The TOUR4EU team had the opportunity to present the EuComMeet project and conduct short interviews with 8 members of the ENVE Commission of the CoR. The interviewees praised the participants of the EuComMeet deliberative event for their commitment and emphasised the...