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)

Encouraging in-person meetings and assemblies empowering and connecting people and communities on different levels: local, national, and international, ensuring two way interactions between the different levels. Local councils can share knowledge within the community, encourage storytelling for individuals and groups to share their experiences and perspectives.

Advocacy groups which train community members to advocate for their rights and interests, including an info kit combined with digital platform to prepare residents for cases of emergency.

After getting the attention of the local authority there needs to be a deliberate space for that official to meet with members of the citizens advisory group and made available such a location or provide funding to rent such a space.

At the local level an online platform will operate with certain topics ( schools, environment, immigration etc) where a group of random selected citizens will issue a prosal and offer a solution in order to vote for it. Every two years officials set an online evaluation form of the work they have done to fix the problems. This will be part of a bigger collective fora easily formed in platforms for sharing common interest, empowerming people and communities through education using peer-to-peer collaborative networks, with direct exchange of information among users.The online spaces need a designated person of the municipality to oversee the platform.

This will be a combination of online and offline civil engagement on the local level across Europe and to start organized and constant communication between communities we create a pilot project that would consist of 2 parts. The first part would combine a row of offline conferences that take place in 3-5 (randomly selection) communities from different regions in Europe and the second a digital platform connected to it. There communities could share their experiences on the problems and the ways they tackle them, embracing similarities and differences. Topics should be defined bottom-up by the communities themselves. And build a base for the future cooperation.