January 2024 – December 2027
Creating an Inclusive European Citizens’ Assembly
Objectives
The project addresses the need for the introduction of new forms of citizens’ participation and deliberation in EU political life and, particularly, an EU Citizens’ Assembly whose design and implementation fully tackles the issues of intersectionality, inclusiveness, and equality.
While there has been an admirable appetite to improve the landscape of participatory and deliberative democratic mechanisms at the EU level, this has not always been accompanied by adequate considerations of how to build these mechanisms to ensure the avoidance of intersectional discrimination and the exclusion of vulnerable groups of citizens. The time is ripe to create a new participatory tool with intersectionality at the forefront.
This project will provide the analytical framework and the prototype through which such a tool can be created in the form of a Citizens’ Assembly that can be established at the EU level and with features allowing for the transfer of a prototype to the national and local levels of EU Member States.
The project consortium is led by the Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal and includes, in addition to ECAS, the following partners:
January 2024 – December 2027