The rise of citizens voices for a Greener Europe

Project Information

PHOENIX

Grant agreement ID: 101037328

DOI

10.3030/101037328

Project closed

EC signature date 28 September 2021

Start date 1 February 2022

End date 31 July 2025

Funded under

• SOCIETAL CHALLENGES - Europe In A Changing World - Inclusive, Innovative And Reflective Societies

Total cost

€ 4 975 448,75

EU contribution

€ 4 975 448,75

Coordinated by

CENTRO DE ESTUDOS SOCIAIS
Portugal

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Deliverables

Documents, reports (8)

D2.2 Report on the EGD's impact in each pilot territory

This document will present the results of the assessment of the impact of the EGD’s specific topic for each pilot. It will include a chapter with categories and indicators to evaluate environmental changes. These results will be provided in Tasks: 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, and the pilots’ implementation in WP4, as well as the policy recommendations and guidelines (Task 6.5).

D2.1 Sound practices of Democratic Innovations

This deliverable will provide a critical analysis of the four main macro-typologies of participatory and deliberative processes, and some of their most interesting implementation experiences, to adapt them to environmental issues. It will support the work in WP3 to design the PHOENIX pilots methodologies.

D2.4 Diagnosis Report for each Pilot

This deliverable is a framework of data and maps with bottomup information of each pilots context It will be organised in chapters by country with the information provided by the local partner and collaboration of methodological partners It is the baseline information for WP3 and WP4

D6.8 Second policy briefs

As a result of task 6.5, this deliverable and updates will produce policy briefs.

D2.3 Research Report on Society and Nature

This report is an analytical framework. The theoretical part is organised in chapters around the main topics described in Task2.3. The second part will use the results of the fieldwork (Task 2.4) to deliver considerations for Tasks: 3.2, 3.3, and 3.4 on designing the approach for PHOENIX pilots.

D6.7 First policy briefs

As a result of task 6.5, this deliverable will produce policy briefs.

D5.3 Information package for co-design

This will be an updated version of the evaluation plan that will include all the research activities described in WP2. This report will be the starting point of the co-design activities.

D6.4 Electronic media and communication materials

This deliverable will present the status of the website which will be up and running since M2 D610 as well as provide collaboration tools and communication materials which will be available to PHOENIX

Websites, patent fillings, videos etc. (1)

D6.10 Website

This deliverable is the launch of the website

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (24)

Explorer les liens entre crises économiques et restructurations politiques

Author(s): Léo Malherbe, Lionel Cordier, Léo Charles, Adriano do Vale
Published in: Économie et Institutions, Issue 34-35, 2025, ISSN 1775-2329
Publisher: OpenEdition
DOI: 10.4000/14gj0

Deliberare sull’ambiente. Le lezioni dell’esperienza francese

Author(s): Yves Sintomer
Published in: Teoria Politica, 2025, ISSN 1972-5477
Publisher: Teoria Politica

Editorial: Climate change and society

Author(s): Fátima Alves; Fátima Alves; Luisa Schmidt
Published in: Frontiers in Sociology, Vol 7 (2022), Issue 2, 2022, ISSN 2297-7775
Publisher: Frontiers
DOI: 10.3389/fsoc.2022.991193

Using the Conference on the Future of Europe to Consider a Multilingual Continental Deliberative Model

Author(s): Lionel Cordier
Published in: Societies, Issue 15, 2025, Page(s) 24, ISSN 2075-4698
Publisher: MDPI AG
DOI: 10.3390/soc15020024

Voting Determinants and Electoral Behavior in Iceland The Impact of the 2008 Financial Crisis

Author(s): Léo Malherbe, Lionel Cordier, Mahdi Fawaz
Published in: Économie et Institutions, Issue 34-35, 2025, ISSN 1775-2329
Publisher: OpenEdition
DOI: 10.4000/14gj4

Un esperimento di governance urbana per territorializzare le politiche climatiche. Il ruolo delle Case di Quartiere a Bologna

Author(s): Cassandra Fontana Andrea Testi Maddalena Ross
Published in: Tracce Urbane. Rivista Italiana Transdisciplinare Di Studi Urbani, Issue 12(16), 2024, Page(s) 174–198, ISSN 2532-6562
Publisher: Università degl studi La Sapienza
DOI: 10.13133/2532-6562/18867

Supporting Local Implementation of the European Green Deal through a Place-Based, Participatory Approach: Methodology for a Comprehensive Analytical Framework

Author(s): Testi, A.; Zetti, I.; Tarsi, E.; Fontana, C.; Gisotti, M.R.; Rossi, M.
Published in: Sustainability, Issue 15, 2023, Page(s) 15098, ISSN 2071-1050
Publisher: MDPI Open Access Publishing
DOI: 10.3390/su152015098

Nature at the Heart of Ecological Transition: Five Ideas to Allow a Plural, Reflexive, Intercultural, Transnational, Ecological, and Dynamic Citizenship

Author(s): Fátima Alves, Diogo Guedes Vidal, Giovanni Allegretti, Edmundo Gallo, Hermano Albuquerque de Castro, Helena Freitas
Published in: Social Sciences, Issue 13, 2025, Page(s) 697, ISSN 2076-0760
Publisher: MDPI AG
DOI: 10.3390/socsci13120697

Editorial: Possible nature(s) in urban spaces: plurality and agency to tackle socio-ecological challenges

Author(s): Diogo Guedes Vidal, Fátima Alves, Marluci Menezes, Edmundo Gallo, Pedro Tomé
Published in: Frontiers in Environmental Science, Issue 12, 2024, ISSN 2296-665X
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
DOI: 10.3389/fenvs.2024.1495979

Hacking democratic innovations: the problem of agency in deliberative systems

Author(s): Ernesto Ganuza, Alfredo Ramos
Published in: Critical Policy Studies, Issue 19, 2025, Page(s) 500-517, ISSN 1946-0171
Publisher: Routledge
DOI: 10.1080/19460171.2024.2423379

Implicit association test (IAT) toward climate change: A PRISMA systematic review

Author(s): Maria Fiorenza; Mirko Duradoni; Giacomo Barbagallo; Andrea Guazzini
Published in: Current Research in Ecological and Social Psychology, Issue 4, 2023, Page(s) 100103, ISSN 2666-6227
Publisher: Elsevier
DOI: 10.1016/j.cresp.2023.100103

Greening Plant Participation through Assemblage Thinking

Author(s): Alfredo Ramos, Ernesto Ganuza
Published in: Theoria, Issue 72, 2025, Page(s) 96-112, ISSN 0040-5817
Publisher: Berghahn Books
DOI: 10.3167/th.2025.7218306

Vote first, think later: an epistemological analysis of the role of voting design in shaping deliberation in the French Citizens’ Convention on the End of Life (forthcoming)

Author(s): Chloé Santoro
Published in: Journal of Sortition, 2025, ISSN 3050-0664
Publisher: Journal of Sortition

La Convention citoyenne comme œuvre collective, entre clandestinité et nécessité de la coopération inter-statutaire

Author(s): Chloé Santoro
Published in: Sociologie, 2024, ISSN 2108-6915
Publisher: Sociologie

The rights of nature and the human right to nature: an overview of the European legal system and challenges for the ecological transition

Author(s): Fátima Alves; Fátima Alves; Paulo Manuel Costa; Paulo Manuel Costa; Luca Novelli; Diogo Guedes Vidal
Published in: Frontiers in Environmental Science, Vol 11 (2023), Issue 5, 2023, ISSN 2296-665x
Publisher: Frontiers
DOI: 10.3389/fenvs.2023.1175143

La valorisation de l’« expertise du quotidien » dans les dispositifs participatifs institutionnels sur le climat en Europe : une expertise vraiment « inversée » ? Les cas du Panel Citoyen de Wallonie et du European Citizens’ Panel on Climate Change, Environment and Health

Author(s): Selma Tilikete
Published in: Émulations, revue de sciences sociales, Presses Universitaires de Louvain, 2026, ISSN 2030-5656
Publisher: Presses universitaires de Louvain

Playing for the Planet? A Serious Game Approach to Land Use Planning with Students in Rural Iceland

Author(s): Benjamin D. Hennig, Ben F. Roberts, Johannes T. Welling, Marissa Pinal, Jón Ólafsson
Published in: Societies, Issue 15, 2025, Page(s) 14, ISSN 2075-4698
Publisher: MDPI AG
DOI: 10.3390/soc15010014

Unveiling the plurality of visions for the ecological transition in Europe

Author(s): Fátima Alves, Diogo Guedes Vidal, Helena Freitas
Published in: Futures, Issue 172, 2025, Page(s) 103645, ISSN 0016-3287
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.futures.2025.103645

Voices of the absent: The agency of Nature and Future in climate regeneration

Author(s): Diogo Vidal e Fátima Alves
Published in: PLOS Climate, Issue nº3, vol 6, 2024, Page(s) e0000420, ISSN 2767-3200
Publisher: Public Library of Science
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pclm.0000420

Plural Nature(s): An Overview of Their Sociocultural Construction

Author(s): Fátima Alves; Diogo Guedes Vidal
Published in: Encyclopedia, Issue 4, 2024, ISSN 2673-8392
Publisher: MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/encyclopedia4010001

Editorial: Shaping healthier cities—Ecosystem services and health for responsive human–nature relations

Author(s): Stefano Salata; Diogo Guedes Vidal; Fátima Alves; Fátima Alves; Ana Isabel Ribeiro; Ana Isabel Ribeiro; Ana Isabel Ribeiro; Martina Artmann
Published in: Frontiers in Environmental Science, Vol 10 (2023), Issue 1, 2023, ISSN 2296-665x
Publisher: Frontiers
DOI: 10.3389/fenvs.2022.1127674

Natures instead of Nature - Plural Perceptions and Representations of Nature and Its Challenges for Ecological Transition: A Systematic Review of the Scientific Production

Author(s): Vidal, Diogo Guedes & Alves, Fátima; Valentim, Cristina Sá; Freitas, Helena
Published in: Environmental Sciences Europe, Issue 36, 2024, Page(s) 108, ISSN 2190-4715
Publisher: Springer
DOI: 10.1186/s12302-024-00934-5

Da “Servizi Ecosistemici” a “Contributi della Natura alle Persone”: un toolkit per attribuire valore alla natura e supportare processi partecipativi su tematiche ambientali.

Author(s): Cassandra Fontana, Andrea Testi
Published in: Contesti. Città, territori, progetti, 2024, Page(s) 16-35, ISSN 2035-5300
Publisher: Firenze University Press
DOI: 10.36253/contest-14812

SimIceland: Towards a Spatial Microsimulation Approach for Exploring ‘Green’ Citizenship Attitudes in Island Contexts

Author(s): Sissal Dahl, Loes Bouman, Benjamin David Hennig, Dimitris Ballas
Published in: Social Sciences, Issue 14, 2025, Page(s) 525, ISSN 2076-0760
Publisher: MDPI AG
DOI: 10.3390/socsci14090525

Book chapters (12)

Future and Nature Stakeholder Integration in Climate Deliberation

Author(s): Fátima Alves, Diogo Guedes Vidal
Published in: Science for Sustainable Societies, Imagining, Designing and Teaching Regenerative Futures: Art-Science Approaches and Inspirations From Around the World, 2025, Page(s) 31-35
Publisher: Springer Nature Singapore
DOI: 10.1007/978-981-96-9029-9_4

Introduction

Author(s): Lionel Cordier ; Yves Sintomer
Published in: L. Cordier, Y. Sintomer (eds.), Handbook of participatory democracy, Elgar, Cheltenham (UK),, 2026
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Consultative democracy, deliberative democracy or authoritarian deliberation? Xieshang minzhu in contemporary China (Forthcoming)

Author(s): Yves Sintomer ; Emilie Frenkiel ; Rongxin Li
Published in: L. Cordier, Y. Sintomer (eds.), Handbook of participatory democracy, Elgar, Cheltenham (UK), 2026
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Participatory and deliberative systems

Author(s): Nabila Abbas ; Yves Sintomer
Published in: L. Cordier, Y. Sintomer (eds.), Handbook of participatory democracy, Elgar, Cheltenham (UK),, 2026
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Participation and constituent processes in Iceland and Chile: A comparison (forthcoming)

Author(s): Lionel Cordier
Published in: L. Cordier, Y. Sintomer (eds.), Handbook of participatory democracy, Elgar, Cheltenham (UK), 2026
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

How does expertise on climate change shape the form of a citizens' assembly? (and vice versa)

Author(s): Selma Tilikete
Published in: Elstub S., Escobar O., Climate Assemblies: New Civic Institutions for a Climate-changed World, De Gruyter,, 2026
Publisher: De Gruyter

Democracy 3.0 in the 21st Century: the Case for a Permanent European Citizens’ Assembly

Author(s): Yves Sintomer
Published in: R. Bauböck, K. Nicolaïdis (dir.) Should a Citizens' Assembly Complement the European Parliament?, Florence, European University Institute, 2025, 2025, Page(s) p.60-67, ISBN 978-92-9466-662-8
Publisher: European University Institute

Citizens’ Assemblies and Mini-publics (Forthcoming)

Author(s): Yves Sintomer
Published in: P. Niesen, M. Patberg, L. Rubinelli (dir.), The Oxford Handbook on Constituant Power, 2025
Publisher: Oxford University Press

Participation and Concertation

Author(s): Selma Tilikete
Published in: Estève A., Ollitrault S., Dictionnaire de l’Écologie Politique, Presses de Sciences Po, 2025
Publisher: Presses de SciencesPo

Assemblées Climatiques

Author(s): Maxime Gaborit ; Selma Tilikete
Published in: Estève A., Ollitrault S., Dictionnaire de l’Écologie Politique, Presses de Sciences Po, 2025
Publisher: Presses de SciencesPo

The French Citizens’ Convention for the Climate

Author(s): Selma Tilikete
Published in: L. Cordier, Y. Sintomer (eds.), Handbook of participatory democracy, Elgar, Cheltenham (UK),, 2026
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

“Everything Everywhere All at Once”: A Methodological Framework for an Inclusive Ecological Transition Pathway. Insights from the PHOENIX H2020 Project

Author(s): Diogo Guedes Vidal, Helena Freitas, Fátima Alves
Published in: World Sustainability Series, North American and European Perspectives on Sustainability in Higher Education, 2025, Page(s) 335-357, ISBN 978-3-031-80433-5
Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-80434-2_20

Monographic books (7)

Climate change and society

Author(s): Alves, Fátima; Schmidt, Luísa
Published in: Frontiers in Sociology, Issue 4, 2022, ISBN 978-2-83250-452-9
Publisher: Frontiers
DOI: 10.3389/978-2-83250-452-9

El gobierno del azar. Sorteo y democracia, de Atenas a nuestros días

Author(s): Yves Sintomer
Published in: 2025
Publisher: Prensas de la Universidad de Saragoza

Handbook of Participatory Participation

Author(s): Lionel Cordier ; Yves Sintomer (dir.)
Published in: 2026
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Petite histoire de l'expérimentation démocratique (in Chinese)

Author(s): Yves Sintomer
Published in: 2024
Publisher: Peking University Press

Tirage au sort de mini-publics et lutte contre le changement climatique : potentialités et limites d’une rencontre (Forthcoming)

Author(s): Selma Tilikete
Published in: 2026
Publisher: La Découverte

Un laboratoire démocratique ? L’Islande après la crise de 2008 (forthcoming)

Author(s): Lionel Cordier
Published in: 2026
Publisher: Presses Universitaires du Septentrion

La nouvelle Athènes. Sur la possibilité d'une rencontre entre la cité ancienne et les aspirations démocratiques contemporaines (Forthcoming)

Author(s): Chloé Santoro
Published in: 2026
Publisher: La Découverte

Conference proceedings (4)

Il ruolo delle mappe nel co-design delle politiche dell’European Green Deal.

Author(s): Maddalena Rossi Iacopo Zetti
Published in: ATTI DELLA XXV CONFERENZA NAZIONALE SIU - SOCIETÀ ITALIANA DEGLI URBANISTI. TRANSIZIONI, GIUSTIZIA SPAZIALE E PROGETTO DI TERRITORIO, Issue Metodi e strumenti innovativi nei processi di governo del territorio, 2024, Page(s) 276-281, ISBN 978-88-99237-56-1
Publisher: Planum

Voices seeking to be heard: rethinking nature's role in deliberative processes for an ecological democracy

Author(s): Diogo Guedes Vidal; Fátima Alves
Published in: "5th World Symposium on Sustainability Science and Research ""Sustainability Transition and Global Citizenship in the Digital Era: Innovations in Universities""", 2025
Publisher: Universidade Aberta

Ecosistemi collettivi: mappare i servizi ecosistemici attraverso processi partecipativi

Author(s): Cassandra Fontana Elena Tarsi Andrea Testi Iacopo Zetti
Published in: ATTI DELLA XXV CONFERENZA NAZIONALE SIU - SOCIETÀ ITALIANA DEGLI URBANISTI. TRANSIZIONI, GIUSTIZIA SPAZIALE E PROGETTO DI TERRITORIO, 2024, Page(s) 197-200, ISBN 978-88-99237-61-5
Publisher: Planum

Comunità e territori alla prova del Green Deal: transizione ecologica e partecipazione nel progetto PHOENIX

Author(s): Rossi, M.; Tari, E.; Zetti, I.; Testi, A.
Published in: Agire collettivo e rapporto tra attori nel governo del territorio, 2022, ISBN 978-88-99237-47-9
Publisher: Planum Publisher

Non-peer reviewed articles (2)

Entrevista com Yves Sintomer

Author(s): Vânia Morales Sierra, Fernanda Natasha Bravo Cruz
Published in: Tempo Social, Issue 36, 2024, Page(s) 285-296, ISSN 0103-2070
Publisher: Universidade de Sao Paulo
DOI: 10.11606/0103-2070.ts.2024.223497

Nature et procédures de la démocratie occidentale

Author(s): Yves Sintomer
Published in: Alters média, cahiers 5, juin 2025, 2025, Page(s) p.44-51, ISSN 2741-5945
Publisher: Alters média

Other (5)

Democracy 3.0 in the 21st Century: the Case for a Permanent European Citizens’ Assembly (Policy Paper)

Author(s): Yves Sintomer
Published in: 2024
Publisher: Florence European Institute

Report on the State of Participation in France

Author(s): Lionel Cordier ; Yves Sintomer
Published in: 2024
Publisher: Robert Bosch Stiftung Institute

Cidadania em açãoUm guia para compreender, participar e transformar a comunidade.

Author(s): Nelson Dias
Published in: 2025, ISBN 978-989-33-8271-4
Publisher: Oficina

From Voices to Action: Empowering Participatory Governance Third Policy Brief

Author(s): Fátima Alves; Diogo Guedes Vidal
Published in: Third Policy Brief, 2025
Publisher: EC

Piloting a permanent pan-European Youth Assembly,

Author(s): Yves Sintomer
Published in: 2024
Publisher: EU Joint Research Council