These webinars will be useful to those writing proposals for projects with a strong participatory element aligned with Mission Ocean targets. It will also be of interest to any group or initiative that engages citizens in marine and freshwater activities.
At the core of Mission Ocean’s citizen engagement targets is a commitment to trialling innovative democratic processes and organize citizen assemblies to engage coastal, riverine, lake and inland sea-dwelling communities in the decisions and activities that affect them. Establishing citizen assemblies for Mission Ocean and creating an EU wide network of such processes is a key upcoming challenge of the Mission. This is reflected in the Mission Implementation Plan and yearly Horizon Europe Work Programme call topics.
In this two-part webinar, participants will learn the practical aspects of implementing citizen’s assemblies and other deliberative processes within the context of a research project. Drawing from a recent example of such a process, the webinar will cover:
- Best practices for citizens’ assemblies
- How long a process takes from beginning to end
- Budget
- Gaining political/institutional buy-in
- Finding participants and ensuring inclusion
- The kinds of activities undertaken in each session
- What to do with the result
- Following all this, we will reflect on the specific challenges that Mission Ocean presents for such processes (multiple languages, stimulating basin-level activity and networking, whether to link to other processes or starting from scratch?).
Register here: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/citizen-assemblies-and-deliberative-processes-for-mission-ocean-tickets-706748001297?aff=oddtdtcreator