4th Public Participation and Deliberative Democracy Festival

Última actualización Jueves, 08/09/2022

Take part in the 4th Public Participation and Deliberative Democracy Festival happening on 20 & 21 October 2022 in Brussels (Belgium), Ispra (Italy) and online. Registrations are now open!

The Public Participation and Deliberative Democracy Festival is an open and free event that brings together people of diverse backgrounds that are interested in, and work on, engagement of citizens in science, policymaking and deliberative democracy in Europe (and globally). These include EU countries, EU institutions, civil society organisations, research and academia, and artists. The programme each year features a variety of events including open conversations, interactive sessions, artwork, and an exhibition of participatory and/or deliberative democracy projects. The Festival is also the principal annual networking event for the Community of Practice of the Competence Centre on Participatory and Deliberative Democracy. This year, participants will be able to attend and interact either in person – in Brussels (Belgium), Ispra (Italy) and/or online.

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

2022 is a year in which we find ourselves with difficult decisions to make, amid conflict, whilst looking to a future beyond the pandemic. That is why the European Commission is reaching out to young people for their vision, engagement and participation to co-create the futures they want. According to the 2021 European Year of Youth Survey, 62.9% of respondents did not know or were not sure how to make their voice heard or express their opinion. In response to these findings, we at the Competence Centre on Participatory and Deliberative Democracy are interested in contributing to a participatory reflection on how young people can be better and more engaged in policy and research processes.

Registration

Registration is OPEN. Visit our registration page for more information. You will need to register before 30th September 2022 if you are attending the Festival in person in Brussels or Ispra, or online via Zoom. You will not need to register, however to access the livestreams of the in presence events.

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Don't hesitate to contact us at EU-CITIZEN-ENGAGEMENT@ec.europa.eu for further queries.