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)

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