TransEuropa Assemblies

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Transeuropa Assemblies is a series of innovative citizens assemblies taking place in 7 countries and online, involving participants from over 15 countries in deliberation of their priorities for the European elections in 2024. These assemblies engage citizens from groups that are least likely to participate in the elections, including women, young people, racialised minorities including Roma and Sinti, unemployed people and people without further education. These participants are selected through an innovative system of random selection involving hundreds of associations across Europe. Participants in the project will engage in transnational democratic deliberation on six themes of high importance following the pandemic - health rights, civil liberties, rights at work, environment, housing, and gender related rights. The recommendations of these assemblies will be used to influence the European election manifestos of the political parties, thereby working to at once Europeanise the elections and to make the elections more pertinent to the concerns of everyday citizens. Members of the European Parliament and potential candidates will be involved in the project, which will also involve experts providing accurate information on the EU's current initiatives in each of the policy areas, both to the participants of the citizens assemblies and to a wider social media audience through videos. An artistic competition will create posters carrying the recommendations of the Transeuropa assemblies, and promoting citizen democratic engagement. The project will test a prototype of citizen assemblies that can be used by NGOs to promote a diverse and wide democratic engagement, as well as call for a permanent citizens assembly for the EU, following up on the Conference on the Future of Europe.