The Travelling Assembly
Towards a permanent Peoples' Assembly for Europe
3. “Nothing About Us Without Us” - STEPS?
[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)
1. Education on civic participation, transparency
- As well as implementation in all areas of everyday life such as: civil associations, (vereins), schools level, adult learning centre, senior centres
- bringing the topic directly into the community by volunteering, talking to organisations etc
- Rights and duties are core values in society. There is a common belief in liberal society but not everybody is fully conscious of their rights and duties.
- Education and enlightenment is important along with care, trust and transparency. This requires a change or additions to the education system.
2. Synergies (to include ALL SECTORS / stakeholders: civic, public admin, schools, indigenous communities, academic research, universities, governments, trade unions etc)
- Map the relationships between the stakeholders
- research what is already done in building civic collaborations
- Build an open / ongoing list of contributors, contacts, bodies, institutions… (sponsors of DO to provide their contacts - as a starting point to connect with possible partners)
- Reach out to the Democratic Odyssey’s consortium list:
- obtain a list of roles in each organisation
- Find out which projects they worked on in the past and currently.
- research which roles within the teams have the capacity to provides services
- map each organisation’s membership of networks, initiatives and other consortiums.
- Search for existing written strategies and documents that are already covering topics in the charter and matching these documents with open calls for funding.
- Search for synergies and inspiration outside Europe for global best practices, to avoid Euro-Centricism and be inclusive of the transnational citizens and residents.
- Be present, going to conferences networking etc
- Add synergies segment to digital platform for transparency
- For interests, founding
- Who does this work?: EUI - research, European Alternatives - implementation and advocacy. Citizens for Europe, Mise en Public - Implementation of assembles with institutions
3. Advocacy and Legal
- Mapping of advocacy spectrum: research pathways through commission or parliament, what is the correct way or both? Once research is done then move to the next step.
- comprehensive EU wide legislation on member state level.
- Member states to choose level of what should be implemented to leave some sovereign authority to states
- Second part is the establishment of a people's assembly at the EU level which acts as an oversight body
- Where to get the funding for this? Research needed to fund resources and advocacy
- People’s assembly should have representation of marginalised communities in addition to randomised.
4. Local Assemblies
- EU should express recommendations to municipalities on implementing assemblies at region and local level
- Mapping the different European capitals of culture, sports, ecology, youth… and the winner needs to implement assemblies
- EU to allocate some funds to municipalities dedicated to assemblies
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