European Guide for Climate Assemblies
Project implementation date: 2023 – 2025
Lead institution: European Union, Horizon Europe program
Within a Consortium composed of cambiaMO, Vilnius Tech University, Deliberativa, Fundació EURECAT and the Departament d’acció exterior i govern obert – Generalitat de Catalunya.
CLIMAS is a research/action project that aims to support a transformation towards climate resilience by offering an innovative toolbox that includes, among others, deliberative mechanisms.
Within this framework, Deliberativa focuses on how to generate the best framing for citizens’ assemblies, and the best way to manage the knowledge that is transmitted to the Assembly, applying the methodology to the Climate Assemblies of Catalonia, Riga (Latvia) and Edermünde (Germany). The objective is to move from Climate Assemblies that provide technical answers (guided by expert knowledge) to Assemblies that solve value-centered dilemmas (that take into account the different positions of stakeholders).
The result will be a Guide for the design and implementation of Citizen Climate Assemblies to be published by the end of 2025.
Image 1: Citizens’ Climate Assembly of Catalonia, 2023 (Inaugural session held at Pompeu Fabra University)
Image 2: Citizens’ Climate Assembly of Edermünde, Germany, 2024
