The Travelling Assembly
Towards a permanent Peoples' Assembly for Europe
Our Timeline
The Democratic Odyssey's pilot for a permanent, travelling Assembly, will follow the below schedule for its 2024/25 process:
- First Assembly moment: 27-29 September, in Athens [recording (Išorinė nuoroda) and full report (Išorinė nuoroda)]
- Second Assembly moment: 26 November, online [recording (Išorinė nuoroda)]
- Third Assembly moment: 21-23 February, in Florence [more info (Išorinė nuoroda) and recording (Išorinė nuoroda)]
- Fourth Assembly moment: 3 April, online [Recording available to members only, as the session was not public. If you are an Assembly member and you do not have it - feel free to reach out to democraticodyssey@gmail.com]
- Feedback session: 7 May, online [recording of the public session available soon; recording of the closed-door session will be available to members only, as the session was not public. If you are an Assembly member and you do not have it - feel free to reach out to democraticodyssey@gmail.com]
- Fifth Assembly moment: 23-25 May, in Vienna
Our Topic
We believe in the creative power of democracy to address the challenges facing Europe and the world, and that citizens themselves should be at the heart of this story! At a pivotal moment in the history of Europe, the 2024/25 pilot Assembly tackles a timely question:
Reflecting on your experience of recent crises, what needs to change for Europeans to overcome future storms? And, how can we, the people, help better steer the European ship?
The Assembly plans to chart a course, a direction of travel, and imagine a desirable future for the places where we all live, and where new measures could help...
… to overcome conflict with our European neighbours,
… to mitigate environmental breakdown while taking care of the refugees it may bring,
… to find agreement on asylum despite disunited views,
…. to make a common good of food, housing, education and healthcare, taking care of those left behind,
… to come up with the money needed for these endeavours!
And last but certainly not least…
…to bring about a future with you in it, through a European Peoples’ Assembly. Yes, this is an ambitious agenda!
Methodology: The Democratic Odyssey’s topic selection process was crowdsourced in spring 2024, from the Democratic Odyssey's Constituent Network (Išorinė nuoroda) (see the process (Išorinė nuoroda) here). The above themes are just a starting point. As this journey continues, the randomly selected Assembly Members are to the broad themes and narrow them down to more specific focus areas. These are then taken up in multiple sessions of the Assembly. For more information about the Democratic Odyssey, and to join the project’s Constituent Network check out our website (Išorinė nuoroda).
The refined Assembly topic
After all the work done in Athens (Išorinė nuoroda) and the subsequent online assembly moment (Išorinė nuoroda) (26 November 2024), the 2024/2025 Pilot Assembly adopted a more refined and yet generalisable formulation:
