Descrizione del progetto
Creare un precedente per il futuro impegno civico inclusivo
Nel panorama della vita politica dell’UE, l’assenza di meccanismi efficaci per una partecipazione inclusiva dei cittadini ha portato al perpetuarsi della discriminazione intersezionale e all’esclusione dei gruppi vulnerabili. Nonostante gli sforzi per migliorare la democrazia partecipativa, la mancanza di una trattazione dell’intersezionalità all’interno del diritto dell’UE ha ostacolato i progressi. In questo contesto, il progetto EU-CIEMBLY, finanziato dall’UE, si propone di affrontare queste sfide e di aprire la strada a un’assemblea dei cittadini dell’UE più inclusiva ed equa. Nello specifico, il progetto progetterà uno strumento in grado non solo di affrontare le questioni attuali a livello europeo ma anche di fornire un prototipo adattabile a livello nazionale e locale. Facendo da ponte tra teoria, valutazione e sperimentazione, il progetto è pronto a rimodellare la democrazia partecipativa nell’UE.
Obiettivo
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 ActionsCoordinatore
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