Citizen´s Assemblies, a new wave of citizen´s engagement in Europe

Climate change is often seen as a super wicked problem. Citizen participation can help to increase support for and legitimacy of policy decisions, and in this context citizens’ assemblies can be a very appropriate tool to address highly complex problems such as climate change.

Citizens’ assemblies are models of non-expert decision-making by a group of randomly selected citizens. The process involves in-depth learning about the topic in question from documentation and expert presentations. The methodology includes facilitating debate and discussion of ideas to reach a set of recommendations for decision-making by the group.

In this workshop, examples of citizens’ assemblies carried out in Europe at different scales will be presented in order to learn about the advantages of these processes, as well as the difficulties they face.

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