Deliverables
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The deliverable is a proposal for the concepts and foundations of the deliberative tools, formats and processes for testing in the context of the EGD. The consortium will jointly select the tools, formats and concepts for citizen participation and deliberation that have been found to be most interesting for testing in the context of facilitating the transition towards sustainability. It will agree on how the various tools, formats and processes should be designed to respond to the complexity of the problem, to questions of inequality, conflicting values and interests; and how participation can empower people to define their own roles in the context of the EGD. The selected tools, formats and processes will be concise, including easy-to-use roadmaps for engaging citizens in the different policy areas of the EGD while being aligned and compatible with the ongoing participatory and deliberative processes leading to the Conference on the Future of Europe and the European Climate Pact. They will provide guidance and suggestions about which groups to involve, through what type of selection process and in what ways. A clear focus will be laid on gender equality considerations and the inclusion of social groups that are often underrepresented, even in participatory formats or, even when represented, struggle to give visibility to their perspective. The product will be a set of tools, formats and processes that promise to be most effective for advancing the EGD on the basis of stakeholder and citizen deliberations taking into consideration institutionalised forms of dialogue, in particular, social dialogue, as well as participation pathways for organised civil society.
After consulting with the Commission Services on proposals for the most relevant topics for the deliberation processes and agreement between the Commission Services REALDEAL and its sister project on the topics for deliberation the proposals will also be informed by the results of Task 13 and the deliberations within the European Civil Society Forum see Task 22 and the outcomes of polling and agendasetting through the digital platform The deliverable is the final framing of the topics for deliberations
Criteria for assessing citizen participation in the EGDThe deliverable is the result of a systematic review of the normative frameworks found within academic and grey literature such as civil society reports to identify the values underpinning citizen participation and deliberation in the policy areas most relevant for the EGD EGD The partners will analyse frameworks such as environmental rights and citizenship environmental ethics and ecofeminism to identify criteria to assess practices of citizen participation and deliberation towards the EGD The review will provide a draft list of criteria to assess whether certain practices of citizens participation and deliberation are meaningful as well as an articulation of the EGDs implicit and explicit values These draft criteria will be revised and improved in iterative phases with stakeholders during the project
An assessment of participatory and deliberative techniques and processes relevant to the EGDThe deliverable will be a direct outcome of a thorough review of scientific and grey literature such as reports from European institutions and civil society and assess existing policy frameworks tools formats and processes for engaging citizens in the transition to a carbonneutral and sustainable future through participatory and deliberative instruments The review will include a gender analysis It will identify the conceptual foundations and structural properties of each of the models and formats for deliberation and explicate their merits contradictions shortcomings gaps and obstacles where these exist The assessment will give specific attention to the strengths and weaknesses of recent examples of citizens participation and deliberation applied at EUlevel such as the ECs consultations as part of the Future of Europe process launched by Commission President Juncker in 201718 the process on the Conference on the Future of Europe announced by the von der Leyen Commission in 2019 participation and deliberation around the European Climate Pact as well as other smaller deliberative processes the effectiveness of citizens deliberation relying on digital tools and looking specifically into recent successful European and international examples such as Taiwan their advantages and shortcomings and the question of how hybrid formats using the most effective aspects of both digital and in person formats can be best combined to create innovative formats whether the researched deliberative processes have been successful in truly representing the diversity of European societies and in ensuring that the perspectives of marginalised vulnerable or less powerful groups are clearly visible throughout the process considering the question whether the groups most affected by policy decisions such as young people being most affected by climate policies should be overrepresented in deliberation processesthe equal representation of women and men in all their diversity within the deliberative processes as well as the consideration of gender roles relations and inequalities the question of the actual impact of deliberative processes on political decisionmaking through the use of impact indicators again with a focus on how women and otherwise less powerful or marginalised groups factually influence decisionmaking the interlinkages between different dimensions of dialogue such as citizens participation and deliberation social dialogue and civil society engagement identifying knowledge gaps and areas where more empirical knowledge is required
A handbook on the legal obligations to consult citizens on environmental and, where applicable, sustainability matters in the countries where this project will conduct deliberation processesThe deliverable will be a direct outcome of a detailed analysis of the legal and political conditions and institutional frameworks for implementation including the impact of multilevel governance in selected Member States and nonEU countries The partners will identify obligations to consult and engage citizens in the EGD areas eg arising from the Aarhus Convention and the European Convention of Human Rights The analysis will provide the legal basis for those advocating for environmental protections and for inclusive stakeholder and citizen consultations including different formats of deliberation and participatory impact assessment The analysis will address diversity gender equality transparency and citizen empowerment issues The analysis will also make concrete recommendations on how citizen participation and deliberation can be further institutionalised to complement and strengthen representative democracy and existing forms of institutionalised dialogue at the European and Member State levels
Publications
Author(s):
Ingeborg Niestroy and Pia-Johanna Schweizer
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2022
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RIFS
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Hilmi Tekoglu (SOLIDAR)
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2022
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REAL DEAL website
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Robert Nemeth (CEU)
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2022
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CEU
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Irene Queralt Santamatilde (SOLIDAR)
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2022
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SOLIDAR Foundation
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Robert Nemeth (CEU)
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2022
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Democracy Institute
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Sebastián Rodríguez Pérez (EMI)
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2022
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REAL DEAL website
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Jeffrey Moxom (EEB)
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2022
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EEB website
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Sebastián Rodríguez Pérez (EMI) and Kristina Naunova (CAN Europe)
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2022
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CAN Europe
Author(s):
Hilmi Tekoglu SOLIDAR
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2023
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SOLIDAR
Author(s):
Hilmi Tekoglu (SOLIDAR) and Jeffrey Moxom (EEB)
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2022
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SOLIDAR foundation
Author(s):
Hilmi Tekoglu (SOLIDAR)
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2023
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REAL DEAL website
Author(s):
Jeffrey Moxom (EEB)
Published in:
2022
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SDGwatch Europe
Author(s):
Sebastián Rodríguez Pérez (EMI)
Published in:
2023
Publisher:
REAL DEAL website
Author(s):
Jeffrey Moxom (EEB)
Published in:
2022
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SDGwatcheurope
Author(s):
Kristina Naunova (CAN Europe)
Published in:
2023
Publisher:
REAL DEAL website
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