5/2025 atgriezeniskās saites sesija

[This Summary Report is also available here in an English-only and downloadable version]

Introduction

By spring 2025, the Democratic Odyssey’s 2024/25 Pilot Assembly grew to 300 members. This followed our recruitment criteria for a European travelling Assembly, with members also coming from the three different cities the Assembly was hosted by. The Feedback session further bolstered knowledge transfers on the first draft recommendations, initially prepared during the 21-23 February 2025 in Florence and the follow-up Assembly meeting (members-only and online) where participants were asked to continue translating the output into a Citizen Charter. After the Feedback session, the Assembly Members were asked to voluntarily join a Drafting Committee, where they would hold the responsibility of (i) reflecting on the feedback received; and (ii) feeding tentative proposals into the main Citizen Charter, ultimately to be reviewed in the last in situ meeting in Vienna by the Assembly.

Overall, the Pilot Assembly received feedback throughout the whole process (i) on the digital platform; (ii) in online sessions designed for public debate around the Assembly’s progress updates (e.g. starting with the 26 November 2024 event); (iii) through rolling evaluation provided by independent evaluators. This summary report firstly introduces the Democratic Odyssey’s understanding of expertise and experience, as well as how these were integrated through a carefully designed series of moments where they would play an integral part of the deliberation. Secondly, the report summarises the feedback received by a panoply of individuals and stakeholders, as well as a note on where and how this was built on in the deliberative process.