Date/Time
Date(s) - 29/11/2023
16:00 - 18:00
Location
Press Club Brussels Europe
Categories
Please join us at Brussel’s Press Club on Wednesday 29 November when Dubravka Šuica,
Vice-President for Democracy and Demography of the European Commission, will engage
with the community of the Democratic Odyssey to discuss the achievements of the Conference on the Future of Europe,
the next generation citizen panels (ECPs) and future prospects for citizen participation in EU policymaking.
You can find more information about the event here and register here to attend in person or virtually (by clicking “Create new account” if you have never attended an event organised by the EUI).
Participants will explore how the Democratic Odyssey’s blueprint for a standing assembly and how a ‘middle way’ process (involving civil, society, academia and citizens in agenda-setting, as well as institutional actors) can help top-down and bottom-up dynamics converge in future experiments with transnational deliberation.
Vice-President Šuica’s keynote will be followed by a conversation with the Democratic Odyssey team, interventions from EU civil servants, MEPs and practitioners and a Q&A with the public.
Led by the Florence School of Transnational Governance along with a wide consortium of collaborators, the Democratic Odyssey is a crowdsourced, decentralised and collaborative campaign developing a concept and strategy to institutionalise a permanent Peoples’ Assembly for Europe, to complement the pre-existing participatory eco-system of the European Union. All are invited to join our network.
For more information about the project, please contact: democraticodyssey@eui.eu
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AGENDA
16:00 – 16:10 Short presentation of Democratic Odyssey and Assembly blueprints (Kalypso Nicolaidis, EUI; Claudia Chwalisz, DemNext; Yves Sintomer,
Paris 8; Carsten Berg, EUI/ECI)
16:10 – 16:20 Keynote Introduction by Vice-President Dubravka Šuica
16:20 – 16:45 Conversation with Vice-President Šuica and the team of the Democratic Odyssey, followed by Q&A
How can the Democratic Odyssey’s Assembly reinforce the ECP process of the last years? How should it relate to the planned Commission ECP’s, and
EP Agora sessions, in 2024? What could the process of institutionalising a European People’s Assembly look like?
16:45 – 17:20 Conversation with Helmut Scholz (MEP, DIE LINKE) Simonetta Cook (Cabinet of Charles Michel, European Council) Annemie De Clerck (Citizen Panellist COFE) and the Democratic Odyssey team
Topics: pedagogy of randomness; topic menu for a transnational Assembly; meaning of impact; political visibility and public sphere; collaboration between the Democratic Odyssey and the European Parliament.
17:20 – 17:30 Next steps
17:30 – 18:00 Drinks
18:00 – 19:15 Meeting of the Democratic Odyssey’s Constituent Network (attendees are welcome to join the network on the spot)