Description du projet
Créer un précédent pour un engagement civique inclusif à l’avenir
Dans le paysage de la vie politique européenne, l’absence de mécanismes efficaces pour une participation citoyenne inclusive a entraîné la perpétuation de la discrimination intersectionnelle et l’exclusion des groupes vulnérables. Malgré les efforts déployés pour renforcer la démocratie participative, l’oubli de la prise en compte de l’intersectionnalité dans la législation européenne a entravé les progrès. Dans ce contexte, le projet EU-CIEMBLY, financé par l’UE, vise à relever ces défis et à ouvrir la voie à une Assemblée des citoyens de l’UE plus inclusive et équitable. Plus précisément, le projet concevra un outil qui non seulement abordera les questions actuelles au niveau de l’UE, mais fournira également un prototype adaptable aux niveaux national et local. En faisant le lien entre la théorie, l’évaluation et le pilotage, le projet est prêt à remodeler la démocratie participative dans l’UE.
Objectif
EU – CIEMBLY addresses the need for the introduction of new forms of citizens’ participation and deliberation in EU political life and, particularly, an EU Citizens’ Assembly whose design and implementation fully addresses issues of intersectionality, inclusiveness, and equality. While there has been an admirable appetite to improve the landscape of participatory and deliberative democratic mechanisms at the EU level, this has not always been accompanied by adequate considerations of how to build these mechanisms to ensure avoidance of intersectional discrimination and the exclusion of vulnerable groups of citizens. In fact, the concept of ‘intersectionality’ within EU law has presented difficulties even without bringing into the picture the context of citizens’ democratic participation. The time is ripe to create a new participatory tool with intersectionality at the forefront. This project will provide the analytical framework and the prototype through which such a tool can be created in the form of a Citizens’ Assembly that can be established at the EU level and with features allowing for the transfer of a (modified) prototype to the national and local levels of EU Member States. To do this, the project moves from theorising to evaluating and finally piloting such a tool and concludes with recommendations. In this way, EU-CIEMBLY seeks to be the first project that uses an academic and theoretical understanding of issues of intersectionality, equality, and power relations in the design of an innovative and inclusive EU Citizens’ Assembly.
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HORIZON-RIA - HORIZON Research and Innovation ActionsCoordinateur
3004-531 Coimbra
Portugal