The Travelling Assembly

[Please note this latest version was made public on 25 May 2025, after the final meeting (External link) of the 2024/25 pilot Assembly]

Steps? (Vienna spirit)

Supporting the diffusion of a care-culture and rebuilding social connections between people. Acts of Care from people to people should include:

• Getting engaged in more volunteering work, notably to bridge social divides with the most marginalised (youth, elderly, migrants, poor, women, etc.)
• Bringing people closer together and re-establish dialogues to create connections and empathy through bottom-up, community-based citizens’ dialogues like citizen assemblies

Caring for our democratic institutions by acting constructively and using once’s voice to keep our institutions accountable. Acts of Care from people to institutions should include:

• Voting of course, but also setting up permanent communication channels and feedback loop mechanisms for people to give feedback to their institutions, and hold them accountable in a constructive and positive manner, in the form of a transparent platform, thus giving citizens the possibility to act as active and constructive citizens.

Listening and showing respect to people’s needs, and communicating clearly. Acts of care from institutions to people should include:

• Passing and enforcing regulations to mainstream and empower Citizens’ Assemblies and referendums as tools to listen to citizens’ needs and set the political agenda, especially on social and care-related issues.
• Communicating more transparently, clearly and using less technical wordings to adapt to citizens’ language and communication needs, by establishing a function of “translator” coming from the people, as opposed to an official government spokesperson, to act as a bridge between institutions and citizens.