Citizens' assemblies on state level

On 23 November 2024, the Citizens' Jury “Artificial Intelligence and Freedom” at the University of Tübingen in Baden-Württemberg came to an end. More

Since 8 November 2024, at the ‘betterLÄND’ youth forum, randomly selected residents of Baden-Württemberg between the ages of 16 and 25 are developing ideas and suggestions on how the Ministry of the Environment can better inform young people and involve them. More

For the first time, a Citizens' Jury has been held in Berlin exclusively with new Berliners. Participants included people who had moved to Berlin from Syria, Morocco, Iran, Afghanistan and Ukraine and who had been selected at random. The topic: climate action. More

A randomly selected citizens' forum is to be convened in Bremen to develop ideas for a new pension system for members of parliament. This was decided by the Constitution and Rules Committee of the Bremen Parliament on 20 September 2024. More.

A citizens' assembly is to make proposals for achieving climate protection targets in Saarland. The first meeting is planned for the first quarter of 2025. More

A Citizens' Forum on non-smoker protection is soon to take place in Baden-Württemberg. The Service Centre for Citizen Participation in Dialogue has been commissioned to organise the mini-public. More

The members of a randomly selected Climate Citizens' Forum in Schleswig-Holstein presented their recommendations to Minister President Daniel Günther and Energy Minister Tobias Goldschmidt on 3 July 2024. More

On 11 December 2023, a Citizens' Forum in Baden-Württemberg presented a citizens' report with 48 recommendations to Barbara Bosch, State Councillor for Civil Society and Citizen Participation, on the duration of the general secondary school system. More

In 2023, the Baden-Württemberg Ministry for Regional Development and Housing invited randomly selected citizens from over 120 municipalities to participate in the creation of the new regional development plan. More

In Baden-Württemberg, representatives of the citizens' forum "Crisis-proof Society" and the children's and youth participation formats on the topic presented their results on 26 May 2023. More

On 25 March 2023, a randomly selected dialogue forum in Baden-Württemberg presented its key messages to Environment Minister Thekla Walker and other members of the state parliament's Environment Committee. More

In a citizens' forum, randomly selected citizens from Baden-Württemberg developed ideas for the future of the Black Forest National Park. More

On 16 January 2023, the Citizens' Forum on the Strategy Dialogue on Agriculture in Baden-Württemberg handed over its final report with concrete recommendations to the state government. More

After about eight weeks of intensive deliberations, the first climate assembly in Berlin presented almost 50 recommendations to policymakers on 30 June 2022. More

In 2022, the Forum COVID-19 in Saxony recommended more citizen dialogue on the part of politicians in crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic. This suggestion, among many others, can be found in the Citizens' Report of the citizens' assembly. More

On 27 January 2022, the "Citizens' Forum COVID-19" in Baden-Württemberg voted by a majority in favour of general compulsory vaccination and against 2G regulations. The final report contains eleven recommendations. More

The COVID-19 citizens' forum set up in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic in Thuringia has proposed far-reaching changes in the way the pandemic is dealt with in 2021. More

Between December 2020 and April 2021, 24 randomly selected citizens from Baden-Württemberg and the French region of Grand Est debated how cross-border cooperation can be strengthened again after the COVID-19 pandemic. More

In Baden-Württemberg, a citizens' forum was set up for the first time in Germany in 2017 to address a controversial political issue at the state level: the adequacy of pensions for members of the state parliament. More