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Reshaping European Advances towards green Leadership Through Deliberative Approaches and Learning

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Deliverables

Online multilingual platform with integrated deliberative tools (opens in new window)

Building on research findings under Task 1.1 and the assessment of existing digital tools for deliberation, the consortium will integrate tools and formats in its online platform to serve as its digital deliberation and participation platform. We will build on existing digital deliberation tools integrated in the general information and outreach hub CitizensGreenDeal.eu (see Task 5.1). The final deliverable will also depend on the agreement with Comission Service whether REAL_DEAL will set up a separate or joint online platform for deliberate with the other cluster project.

Project website and logo (opens in new window)

Initial website of the project with a domain ending on .eu and basic branding including a logo.

Synthesis report and academic article summarising the perspective on environmental citizenship developed during this project, with a practical review of the various procedures, formats and techniques based on the criteria co-created in this project by mea (opens in new window)

The report consists of a critical and practical review of the various procedures, formats and techniques applided in WP3. The draft criteria (developed in T1.1) will be revised as part of this report. The resulting report as well as any remaining questions and criteria will be input to an expert Delphi panel with scholars and practitioners from across Europe. We will invite participants from the pan-European Forum and members of the Commission services to be involved to make sure that various voices are included. Based on the Delphi study, we will finalise the synthesis report and develop a final evaluation strategy to measure successful citizen engagement for the EGD. We publish the results of this task in an academic article.

Policy briefs (opens in new window)

We will deliver at least 3 policy briefs of 2-4 pages each for dissemination to policymakers at national and EU level.

Report on the Protocol Summit. A brief report on the results of the Summit, including agenda, participants and outcomes (opens in new window)

The report will summarize and analyse the outcomes of the Summit (Subtask 4.2.1 will organise the REAL-DEAL Protocol Summit), a combined co-creative academic-CSO conference hosted by one of the partners to explore the limitations of the traditional approaches to citizen engagement, deliberation and participation and to kick-off the development of the REAL_DEAL Protocol.

The REAL-DEAL Protocol, including a practical Toolkit for an innovative and validated perspective on citizen and stakeholder engagement for the EGD (opens in new window)

The Protocol will be presented in form of a published report and guideline. We will also make it available online.

Issues and topics selected for empirical investigations and implementations in 13 countries and for deliberative formats at EU-level based on an agreement with the Funding Authority and the sister project based on an Agreement with the Funding Authority (opens in new window)

After consulting with the Commission Services on proposals for the most relevant topics for the deliberation processes and agreement between the Commission Services, REAL_DEAL and its sister project on the topics for deliberation, the proposals will also be informed by the results of Task 1.3 and the deliberations within the European Civil Society Forum (see Task 2.2) and the outcomes of polling and agenda-setting through the digital platform. The deliverable is the final framing of the topics for deliberations.

Criteria for assessing citizen participation in the EGD (opens in new window)

The 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 EGD’s 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 EGD (opens in new window)

The 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 carbon-neutral 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 EU-level (such as the EC’s consultations as part of the Future of Europe process launched by Commission President Juncker in 2017-18, 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 processes.•the 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 decision-making through the use of impact indicators, again with a focus on how women and otherwise less powerful or marginalised groups factually influence decision-making. •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 processes (opens in new window)

The 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 multi-level governance, in selected Member States and non-EU countries. The partners will identify obligations to consult and engage citizens in the EGD areas, e.g., 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.

Selection of techniques for citizen deliberation on the EGD (opens in new window)

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.

Citizen Deliberation Academy for mutual learning and training (opens in new window)

By the end of the project, we will present a concept note for a Eurpean Citizen Deliberation Academy including the commitments of at least 5 relevant stakeholders to the the Academy.

Publications

Designing for inclusive decision making in the food sector: understanding inclusion in deliberative processes in Serbia and Poland

Author(s): Giesbers, E. De Roo, N., Renn, O., Schweizer P.-J., Kusters, C., Stasiak, D. Droy, S., Niestroy, I.
Published in: Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions, 2025, ISSN 2210-4224
Publisher: Elsevier BV

Developing normative criteria for meaningful citizen participation and deliberation in environmental policy (opens in new window)

Author(s): Mark Ryan, Else Giesbers, Rose Heffernan, Anke Stock, Solene Droy, Thomas Blanchet, Stephen Stec, Antoni Abat, Agata Gurzawska, Zuzanna Warso
Published in: Innovation: The European Journal of Social Science Research, Issue 37, 2024, Page(s) 794-831, ISSN 1351-1610
Publisher: Carfax Publishing Ltd.
DOI: 10.1080/13511610.2023.2217520

Economic perspectives and expert judgments on sustainable transformations: Results of a Berlin Group Delphi.

Author(s): Renn, O., Hermann, J., Roth, E., and Johannsen, L.
Published in: GAIA, 2025, ISSN 0940-5550
Publisher: Oekom - Gesellschaft fuer Oekologische Kommunikation mbH

REAL_DEAL

Author(s): Ingeborg Niestroy and Pia-Johanna Schweizer
Published in: 2022
Publisher: RIFS

CSOs from across Europe join the second meeting of REAL DEAL’s Civil Society Forum for Sustainability

Author(s): Hilmi Tekoglu (SOLIDAR)
Published in: 2022
Publisher: REAL DEAL website

Reshaping European advances towards green leadership through deliberative approaches

Author(s): Robert Nemeth (CEU)
Published in: 2022
Publisher: CEU

Coming up: Civil Society Forum for Sustainability - Shaping the European Green Deal

Author(s): Irene Queralt Santamatilde (SOLIDAR)
Published in: 2022
Publisher: SOLIDAR Foundation

The REAL DEAL project has been launched

Author(s): Robert Nemeth (CEU)
Published in: 2022
Publisher: Democracy Institute

A REAL DEAL for both people and the planet

Author(s): Sebastián Rodríguez Pérez (EMI)
Published in: 2022
Publisher: REAL DEAL website

Civil Society Forum for Sustainability: Shaping the European Green Deal – 9 – 10 June

Author(s): Jeffrey Moxom (EEB)
Published in: 2022
Publisher: EEB website

Practicing direct democracy for the green and just transition at the Political Festival of Europe

Author(s): Sebastián Rodríguez Pérez (EMI) and Kristina Naunova (CAN Europe)
Published in: 2022
Publisher: CAN Europe

Civil Society organisations come together to assess SDG progress

Author(s): Hilmi Tekoglu SOLIDAR
Published in: 2023
Publisher: SOLIDAR

2nd Civil Society Forum for Sustainability – Shaping the European Green Deal

Author(s): Hilmi Tekoglu (SOLIDAR) and Jeffrey Moxom (EEB)
Published in: 2022
Publisher: SOLIDAR foundation

Civil Society Forum for Sustainability: Shaping the European Green Deal

Author(s): Hilmi Tekoglu (SOLIDAR)
Published in: 2023
Publisher: REAL DEAL website

Civil Society Forum for Sustainability – Shaping the European Green Deal

Author(s): Jeffrey Moxom (EEB)
Published in: 2022
Publisher: SDGwatch Europe

Involving Europeans in the green and just transition at the Political Festival of Europe

Author(s): Sebastián Rodríguez Pérez (EMI)
Published in: 2023
Publisher: REAL DEAL website

CSOS FROM ACROSS EUROPE JOIN THE SECOND MEETING OF THE CIVIL SOCIETY FORUM FOR SUSTAINABILITY

Author(s): Jeffrey Moxom (EEB)
Published in: 2022
Publisher: SDGwatcheurope

COP27, explained

Author(s): Kristina Naunova (CAN Europe)
Published in: 2023
Publisher: REAL DEAL website

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