Events

Location: The 9th, Sandkaule 9 - 11, 53111 Bonn

The debate over the future of Bonn’s theatres – opera and drama – is highly charged and has stirred up the local community. A proposal from the city council is currently under discussion to relocate the opera house and/or the Schauspielhaus to Beuel. But what do the city’s residents actually want?

Volt is calling for a citizens’ assembly to be held on the “future of Bonn’s theatres”!

What exactly is a citizens’ assembly? How is it organised and who is eligible to take part?

Find out more and join the conversation with others about citizens’ assemblies – a format that involves real people in real decision-making. With guests who know how it works. And with you, because your opinion matters.

These guests and experts will speak and discuss with you:

• Gereon Hermens, co-initiator of the citizens’ assemblies in the city of Aachen
• Florian Wieczorek, expert on citizens’ assemblies at Mehr Demokratie
• Marc Fonseca and Birgit Tellmann, Gesellschaftsforum Bundeskunsthalle Bonn

During the event, participants will take part in a moderated discussion about experiences with citizens’ assemblies and explore how the concept can be applied to the topic of Bonn’s theatres.

The event is free of charge. However, please do register so that the organisers can plan more effectively.

An event organised by Volt in Bonn City Council.

Location: Goethe-Institut Madrid, c / Zurbarán, 21, 28010 Madrid, Spain

For Jürgen Habermas, democracy is not limited to the act of voting, but depends on the existence of a vibrant public sphere in which citizens can form their own opinions through dialogue. In *The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere*, he demonstrated how such a space emerges when people deliberate on common matters as equals – without coercion and without privilege.

Today, however, we know that this ‘shared world’ to which the public sphere refers is not a given. As Mariam Bascuñán explains in *The End of the Common World*, we live in a context in which shared horizons of meaning are disintegrating, which already makes it difficult to recognise one another as interlocutors in a shared space of discussion. The question is therefore no longer merely how we deliberate, but whether we still share a common world from which this is possible.

Against this backdrop, the city and its spaces take on particular significance. Architecture and urban planning are not neutral: they create opportunities for encounter, but also forms of exclusion. Initiatives such as the Concéntrico Festival in Logroño make this material dimension of the common good tangible by revitalising urban space through temporary interventions, testing alternative forms of use and facilitating new encounters between strangers.

From a different perspective, Juan Carlos Velasco emphasises that democratic legitimacy cannot be separated from actual conditions of inclusion and justice. The ideal of dialogue alone is not enough – rather, we must ask who can actually participate, under what conditions, and with what initial inequalities. In this sense, deliberative democracy is only viable if public space – including urban space – is designed to be accessible and equitable.

Habermas formulated this succinctly in Facticity and Validity: norms and decisions are only valid if they can secure the consent of all those affected. As he writes: “Only those norms can claim validity which find – or could find – the consent of all those affected as participants in rational discourses.”

It is precisely this ‘could’ that is crucial: it points to a possibility that is today shaped by social inequalities, cultural fragmentation and technological changes. This is where philosophy, social analysis and architectural practice converge – in the shared aim of creating spaces in which this shared world is not merely taken for granted, but can be re-experienced.

Deliberative democracy is thus an ambitious project: it relies on language, argument and inclusion, yet is simultaneously dependent on the material conditions that make all this possible. Without a critical public sphere – and without a shared world that sustains it – democracy runs the risk of being hollowed out from within.

Guests

• Máriam Martínez-Bascuñán, Professor of Political Science at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, expert in political theory and feminist philosophy.
• Javier Peña Ibáñez, architect, curator and lecturer. He is the founder and director of Concéntrico, a project that explores new forms of relationship between architecture, design and public space.
• Juan Carlos Velasco obtained his PhD in Philosophy from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid in 1993 and holds degrees in Human Rights, Political Science and Constitutional Law.
• Fernando Vallespín, Professor of Political Science at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

An event organised by the Goethe-Institut Madrid.

Location: Zoom video conferencing platform,

The “Climate Change and Democracy” programme run by International IDEA, in collaboration with Democracy R&D, Demo.Reset, Extituto and iDeemos, is organising a series of cross-regional seminars on how to enhance the impact of civic deliberation.

The series comprises three consecutive events focusing on experiences from Africa, Asia and the Pacific, and Latin America. Practitioners and researchers in the field of civic deliberation will take part.

The event on 28 May will focus on Latin America.

Location: Zoom video conferencing platform,

From climate citizens’ assemblies helping to shape policy in Nigeria, to forest management in the Indian Himalayas, and community-led solutions in the Brazilian Amazon – practitioners are proving that climate policy improves when people have a say.

Join this online seminar on 2 June with implementers and partners of the Climate Democracy Accelerator (CDA), which devised and implemented the participatory process for climate action. You will learn what has worked, what insights have been gained, and how participatory approaches lead to concrete climate targets.

At the same time, the application deadline for the next CDA cohort (grants of up to $25,000) and the Rising Stars Mentorship programme runs until 26 June. Seminar participants will also receive tips on how to put together a compelling application.

This seminar is aimed at anyone who would like to find out about the latest innovations in the field of climate democracy or receive support in implementing such programmes – whether you are active in politics, hold a leading role in civil society or work as a community organiser.

An event organised by People Powered.

Location: PROGR (Small stage), Waisenhausplatz 30, 3011 Bern, Switzerland

How can democratic innovation be reconciled with our existing institutions? What can we learn from the experience of a citizens’ assembly when it addresses the issue of democratic participation directly?

The last-minute cancellation of the planned Citizens’ Assembly for Democracy in Geneva by the State Council clearly illustrates these areas of tension. On 3 June, Demoscan invites you to analyse this case first-hand and reflect on the challenges and opportunities of integrating deliberative processes in Switzerland.

The programme for this event:

• Exchange of experiences: An insight into the events surrounding the Geneva Citizens’ Assembly, featuring a keynote presentation by Victor Sanchez-Mazas followed by a discussion.
• Strategy 2026+: Presentation of Demoscan’s new strategic areas of focus.
• Collective intelligence: An “Open Space” to explore your own topics in depth and share best practices.

Languages: Discussions in German and French (keynote speech in English).

Participation: Free of charge, courtesy of the Mercator Switzerland Foundation

Your voice counts in advancing participatory democracy in Switzerland.

Location: Zoom video conferencing platform,

The “Climate Change and Democracy” programme run by International IDEA, in collaboration with Democracy R&D, Demo.Reset, Extituto and iDeemos, is organising a series of cross-regional seminars on how to enhance the impact of civic deliberation.

The series comprises three consecutive events focusing on experiences from Africa, Asia and the Pacific, and Latin America. Practitioners and researchers in the field of civic deliberation will take part.

The event on 3 June will focus on Africa.

Location: Zoom video-conferencing platform,

The documentary “Together – Is a Just Climate Transition Possible?” by Niklas and Ronja von Wurmb-Seibel tells the story of the Citizens’ Assembly “Klima-Aufbruch Erlangen”. There, 25 citizens selected at random worked for a year under the guidance of the Heidelberg-based IFEU Institute to devise a path to climate neutrality for their city by 2030 – in consultation with a council of representatives from interest groups, which included civil society groups such as Fridays for Future, trade unions, major companies such as Siemens, the municipal utilities and the University Hospital.

On 3 June 2026, Mehr Demokratie, as part of the Citizens’ Councils Network, is inviting people to an online screening and discussion of the film. The event will feature the film’s author Niklas Wurmb-Seibel, who will be available for questions and discussion.

Also taking part are

• Sabine Bock, Environmental and Climate Protection Officer for the City of Erlangen
• Hannes Ehrlich, Citizens’ Assembly participant
• Prof. Dr Manfred Miosga, KlimaKom Municipal Consultancy and University of Bayreuth

Initiatives wishing to form their own impression of the film before bringing it to events in their city or network are also expressly invited to the online screening.

The event will be recorded and the recording will subsequently be made available to network members.

The film was made possible by funding from the Bavarian Regional Office of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation.

About Niklas and Ronja von Wurmb-Seibel

Ronja von Wurmb-Seibel is a Spiegel bestselling author (Wie wir die Welt sehen 2020, Zusammen 2024), Niklas Wurmb-Seibel is a multi-award-winning investigative reporter and filmmaker who has been nominated for an Emmy and a Grimme Prize, among other accolades.

As a film team, they specialise in using their documentaries to initiate and organise the very discourse they wish to see on their subjects – and are therefore almost always available for a discussion on-site or via video link after the screening, engaging with people from the film or key figures at the respective venue.

With their previous film ‘Wir sind jetzt hier’ (We Are Here Now), about seven young men who all fled to Germany around 2015, they have organised around 950 such events – ranging from federal ministries, police academies, job centres, immigration authorities and companies to trade unions and schools.

Citizens’ Assembly Network

The Citizens' Assembly Network is an association of people who are committed to the greater use of mini-publics at the local level or who are involved in this area for other reasons. The aim of the network is to facilitate an ongoing exchange on open questions relating to citizens' assemblies, such as the selection of topics, the sortition procedure, implementation, costs and the implementation of mini-public recommendations. You can find out more about the network here.

Location: Safranzunft, Gerbergasse 11, 4001 Basel, Switzerland

The Basel Citizens’ Assembly is a randomly selected, representative group that examines a political issue in depth. In Basel, this format is to be integrated into democratic processes for the first time and tested as part of a multi-year pilot project.

Experts provide background information, which participants then discuss and use to formulate recommendations for Parliament and the Government.

The pilot project launches on 5 June with a public kick-off event. You will learn how the People’s Council works and how you can get involved.

Benedikt Meyer will host the evening. Together with the project team, experts and guests, there will be an insight into the concept and implementation of the Basel pilot project.

Afterwards, all participants are invited to a drinks reception: an opportunity for questions, discussion and new ideas.

Location: Online,

In his work as a facilitator of participatory processes, Jascha Rohr has supported projects in village regeneration and urban development. He was one of the facilitators of the citizens’ assemblies commissioned by the Bundestag, for example on the topic of “Nutrition in Transition”. In July, he was selected by the Green Party as their candidate for the mayoralty of Oldenburg. And recently, as editor, he published an anthology on the renewal of democracy: “An Update for Our Democracy”. For him, one of the key qualities of this update lies in understanding and living democracy as a process of shaping. In an article for evolve, he writes:

“Understanding democracy as design means not merely viewing it as a legal framework, but being able to design it as the cultural, social and technological infrastructure of our coexistence. Its architecture consists not only of constitutional articles, but also of unwritten rules, institutions, attitudes and habits.

Like any complex order, it is always a product of its time and of a particular understanding of the world. And our understanding of the world has, of course, evolved since the end of the Second World War and the emergence of the global world order in which we now live. Our democratic operating system, if this technical metaphor is permitted, has long been in need of an update and a new cultural practice of lived democracy that is appropriate to the present day and our current understanding of democracy and social regulation.”

For Jascha Rohr, it is important that we all see ourselves as co-creators of such democratic processes and get involved accordingly: “States, societies, indeed entire civilisations have always been shaped. Often by elites, rarely by the population.

Today we face the challenge of organising this shaping process democratically ourselves: this requires people who are not only experts in politics or law, but who, as artists and designers of social and political structures and the culture of democracy, are well-versed in these areas and organise them through co-creative processes. People who understand political systems as processes that can be shaped. I call them governance designers. And even if this profession does not officially exist – the practice has long been in place. It takes place in civil society, activism, academia, the arts and public administration.”

In this evolve LIVE! seminar, participants will explore together with Jascha Rohr how we can all engage in democratic processes, which inner qualities can support us in doing so, and what is needed to facilitate encounter, co-creativity and decision-making in dialogical processes. In doing so, the dialogical process will be explored in depth as a means of experiencing creative shaping power together.

An event by evolve world.

Location: VHS im Bamberger, Room 303, Faulenstr. 69, 28195 Bremen

Our democracy appears to be facing change and is also being called into question. The participants in this seminar ask themselves whether our democracy is under threat and how it could be improved. What are the reasons for seemingly brutalised manners and increasing willingness to use violence? Which values are important to us in democratic coexistence?

It will be examined how these values are challenged in our everyday lives by militant protests, neo-Nazis, extremists, fake internet and media campaigns, and excessive state control and police violence. To this end, participants will talk to the Office for the Protection of the Constitution, political parties and organisations in Bremen about what they are doing to defend our democratic coexistence and improve it through civil courage and commitment.

Do we want to ‘dare more democracy’ through plebiscites and citizens' assemblies? To this end, democratic competence will be practised in a practical way.

An event organised by the Bremen Adult Education Centre.

Location: Zoom video conferencing platform,

The “Climate Change and Democracy” programme run by International IDEA, in collaboration with Democracy R&D, Demo.Reset, Extituto and iDeemos, is organising a series of cross-regional seminars on how to enhance the impact of civic deliberation.

The series comprises three consecutive events focusing on experiences from Africa, Asia and the Pacific, and Latin America. Practitioners and researchers in the field of civic deliberation will take part.

The event on 11 June will focus on Asia and the Pacific.

Location: Youth Hostel Cologne Deutz, Siegesstr. 5, 50679 Cologne

The Democracy & Participation Network is celebrating its 15th anniversary this year. Reason enough to ask, at the 2026 Network Meeting, what ideas and visions we can draw on to jointly advance the future of participation and civic engagement.

The title of the network meeting on 12 June 2026 is therefore:

Design with impact! 
The future of participation and its contribution to a resilient democracy

There is much to discuss:

How can we ensure that participation and involvement in political and societal decision-making and change processes become a matter of course for everyone involved? At which points can and must participatory processes ‘dock’ strategically in the future? Which methodological approaches should we rethink or develop further in the future? What standards do we set for the quality of our work in this regard?

How can all this succeed under increasingly difficult conditions? How can we achieve participation in the face of significantly scarcer financial resources? And: How can we, through our work and our commitment, help to protect democracy against current threats?

• The network meeting is aimed at networkers and interested parties.

• The »Framework for self-understanding and cooperation within the Democracy and Participation Network« applies.

• Here you will find continuously updated information on the 2026 network meeting.

Location: Liane . Green Event Spaces, Karl-Marx-Str. 17, 12043 Berlin

In this three-day seminar, you will learn how to successfully apply Dynamic Facilitation.

The core of Dynamic Facilitation is to promote collective wisdom through dynamic exchange and the sharing of individual perspectives and feelings. The facilitator creates a framework in which each participant can connect with their inner self and contribute to finding solutions through authentic listening and deep understanding. Breakthroughs promote the process known as choice creating.

This unique facilitation method is particularly well suited to situations where complex problems need to be solved or creative solutions developed.

• Citizen participation and citizens' assemblies: Dynamic Facilitation enables citizens to actively participate in solution-finding processes. It promotes open dialogue and supports the development of solutions to social challenges.
• Innovation processes: In organisations, dynamic facilitation can be used to generate innovative ideas and tackle complex problems in product development or strategic planning.
• Conflict resolution: The method is also suitable for conflict resolution and mediation. It enables conflicting parties to express their concerns and search for solutions together.
• Team development: Dynamic Facilitation can be used in team development processes to strengthen cooperation and promote the creativity of team members.
• Coaching: In coaching, the method can be used to support individuals in solving personal challenges and activating their own creative resources.

Dynamic Facilitation can be used to reliably accompany a deeply transformative process.

The seminar offers the opportunity to learn from experienced trainers and exchange ideas with other participants. Short theory modules, lots of practice and regular reflection alternate.

Discover how you can use the potential of Dynamic Facilitation in your professional and private everyday life.

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Location: Evangelische Tagungsstätte Bad Boll, Akademieweg 11, 73087 Bad Boll

How can we successfully discuss the future together and democratically in groups and teams? Art of Hosting promotes the necessary mindset and offers a participatory methodology. This training invites you to try out new ways of participation and dialogue. Together, the participants create spaces for development in which diversity and exchange come to life.

Target groups

Anyone involved in development and participation processes, full-time and voluntary managers in local authorities, schools, associations, organisations, civil society projects, business and churches, freelance facilitators interested in vision work.

An event organised by the Evangelische Akademie Bad Boll.

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Location: Cisco Webex Meeting,

How can the spatial, social, ecological, cultural and economic development of the city be achieved in dialogue with the various interested parties in the city? Against this backdrop, what are the challenges and success factors in everyday and project-related communication between the local government and urban society? And finally: How can dialogue and participation processes be designed and implemented in a results-oriented manner?

To explore and answer these questions, participation expert Dieter Schöffmann provides practical insights and the necessary tools for reflection and the effective design of participation projects that involve all stakeholders and interested parties in all their diversity. You will learn more about:

• fundamental challenges, styles and requirements for good communication between the administration and citizens that promotes dialogue
• How and with what to design and implement dialogue and participation processes that reach and involve more than just the ‘usual suspects’ at an early stage
• Methods and instruments of dialogue and participation with their specific possibilities and requirements: outreach activities, events, online formats, citizens' assemblies
• Infrastructures that promote participation in administration and politics
• Simple and quick planning aids that can be used in everyday life

Short presentations throughout the day will provide you with essential conceptual and methodological tips on how to create good dialogue that is satisfactory for all parties involved in everyday administrative work and complex municipal projects. Using prepared case studies from municipal practice and in small group work, you will learn how to apply the design elements, methods and instruments presented.

Learn how urban development can succeed in dialogue with citizens and then start your next participation project well equipped!

Target group

Employees of urban development departments, building planning offices, main offices, offices for social affairs, culture and the environment, press and public relations departments of cities, districts and municipalities, mayors, local politicians and others interested in the topic.

Your lecturer

Dieter Schöffmann. Independent consultant and owner of VIS a VIS Beratung & Fortbildung, focusing on aspects of civic engagement, citizen participation and their contributions to positive social development.

Participation fees

• 340 € for vhw members
• 410 € for vhw non-members

A seminar organised by vhw Bundesverband Wohnen und Stadtentwicklung

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Location: Jagiellonian University, ul. Gołębia 24, 31-007 Krakow, Poland

The Standing Group on Democratic Innovation invites submissions for the 2026 General Assembly of the European Consortium for Political Research in Krakow, Poland.

In 2026, the General Assembly will take an in-depth look at some of the difficult discussions that lie ahead.

• How can democratic innovation work in a shrinking civil society space and in the face of legal or administrative restrictions?
• What happens when trust and consensus are most difficult to achieve?
• How does participation work in fragile, hybrid and conflict-ridden environments?
• What do we think of rapid digital transformations?

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Location: City of Munich, Agnes-Pockels-Bogen 33, 80992 Munich

The CONSUL DEMOCRACY Foundation, in collaboration with the City of Munich, is organising the next ConsulCon from 15 to 17 September 2026 in Munich.

CONSULCON2026 offers the opportunity to engage in-depth with topics such as digital democracy, open-source technology and democratic participation, but above all to connect a constantly evolving community, invite new members, exchange views and knowledge, and look ahead to the near future together.

This conference is aimed at anyone interested in digital democracy models, participatory platforms, open-source technology and digital public goods, as well as all related topics. New faces in the community are particularly welcome!

You can look forward to demonstrations, workshops on developing participatory processes and empowering citizens in cities and regions across Europe, Latin America and Africa, workshops on open-source technology and digital public goods, as well as keynote speeches on the democratic potential of all these topics.

Tickets: Tickets are available on a donation basis and can be purchased now.

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Location: SRH University, Sonnenallee 221, 12059 Berlin

Mitmacht is the democracy festival for collective strategies. From September 23 to 26, 2026, the German-speaking democracy community will gather in Berlin. The festival offers a space for shared ideas, new inspiration, and a broad exchange of experiences: How can we better align our approaches and strategies? What can we learn from one another? And how can we come together to take action?

In 2026, Mitmacht will take place in cooperation with reCampaign: Here, participants will combine collective strategy with campaign practice - and create space for movement.

Help shape the festival program: Until May 18, 2026, we are seeking strategic ideas, practical tools, exchange formats, or artistic contributions across five areas of action:

• Strategic Contributions – Where are we headed?
• Best Practice Contributions – What actually works?
• Exchange Formats – How do we come together?
• Art and Culture Formats – What moves us?

Program

The festival program combines curated formats with inspiring contributions from the open call. Strategic ideas, practical tools, interactive exchange formats, and artistic works come together here and are further developed on-site.

Tickets

Ticket sales for the festival begin in mid-June 2026.

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Location: Athens Conservatoire, Rigillis St & Vas.Georgiou Avenue Β΄ 17-19, 10675 Athens, Greece

The world is at a crossroads. Liberal democracy - once taken for granted as the dominant global ideal - now faces open contestation. From the erosion of core principles in established democracies to the rise of authoritarian alternatives, the question is no longer whether democracy is under threat, but how it can adapt, deliver, and inspire in the 21st century.

At the Athens Democracy Forum 2026, the participants will confront this moment head-on. Rooted in the Greek capital’s legacy as both the birthplace of democracy and a laboratory for its reinvention, this year’s Forum will ask: Why democracy - and how must it evolve to be fit for purpose in an era of exponential change?

Together, the participants will reimagine democracy - not as a static ideal, but as a living system capable of learning, adapting and delivering for all.

Location: Narrativum, Färbergasse 1, 6900 Bregenz, Austria

In this three-day seminar, you will learn how to successfully apply Dynamic Facilitation.

The core of Dynamic Facilitation is to promote collective wisdom through dynamic exchange and the sharing of individual perspectives and feelings. The facilitator creates a framework in which each participant can connect with their inner self and contribute to finding solutions through authentic listening and deep understanding. Breakthroughs promote the process known as choice creating.

This unique facilitation method is particularly well suited to situations where complex problems need to be solved or creative solutions developed.

• Citizen participation and citizens' assemblies: Dynamic Facilitation enables citizens to actively participate in solution-finding processes. It promotes open dialogue and supports the development of solutions to social challenges.
• Innovation processes: In organisations, dynamic facilitation can be used to generate innovative ideas and tackle complex problems in product development or strategic planning.
• Conflict resolution: The method is also suitable for conflict resolution and mediation. It enables conflicting parties to express their concerns and search for solutions together.
• Team development: Dynamic Facilitation can be used in team development processes to strengthen cooperation and promote the creativity of team members.
• Coaching: In coaching, the method can be used to support individuals in solving personal challenges and activating their own creative resources.

Dynamic Facilitation can be used to reliably accompany a deeply transformative process.

The seminar offers the opportunity to learn from experienced trainers and exchange ideas with other participants. Short theory modules, lots of practice and regular reflection alternate.

Discover how you can use the potential of Dynamic Facilitation in your professional and private everyday life.

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Location: sanu future learning ag, General-Dufour-Str. 18, 2502 Biel/Bienne, Switzerland

Art of Hosting and Harvesting Conversations that Matter is both an attitude and a practice. It allows us to shape collaboration on an equal footing and enable collective intelligence. The three-day Art of Hosting training course is compact, intensive and offers plenty of scope for practical exercises.

We face major challenges in our spheres of influence - work, family, society. The exchange of pros and cons usually does not get us anywhere, but rather reinforces polarised positions.

Therefore, the following question is at the heart of this Art of Hosting training:

How can we find intelligent and far-sighted solutions despite or thanks to different interests and concerns?

With Art of Hosting, we can create spaces in which we ask courageous questions, listen to each other well and develop the next steps together from the different concerns and interests.

An event organised by sanu future learning ag

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Location: Vienna, Austria, (Venue to follow)

On 18 – 19 November, democracy enthusiasts are gathering in Vienna to face the new reality. Engaging citizens is no longer an option – it's a necessity.

The Deliberative Wave has demonstrated the capacity of randomly selected citizens to address the growing gap between citizens and government. What was once described as a wave of experiments needs to become infrastructure.

That’s why the FIDE Forum is launched: a conference organised by FIDE Europe for practitioners, public officials, political parties, NGOs, and funders to move this field from the margins to the mainstream. Not to debate whether deliberation works. To build the infrastructure, lift the standards, and create the political will to make it permanent.

Over the past decades, thousands of deliberative processes have delivered some of the most difficult questions governments struggle to answer alone. More than 80,000 citizens have contributed to key decisions, including constitutional reform, national legislation, and public spending.

The evidence is in. The experiments are over.
What remains is even harder: making this permanent.

Call for workshops 

Workshops are a unique opportunity to solve some of the open problems in our field: upskill participants with new techniques and tools, discuss challenging or contentious topics, and make new connections between collaborators or colleagues. 

FIDE Europe is looking for proposals that are intentionally outcome-oriented and demonstrate their contribution to the field.

Deadline: July 17. 2026. Apply now!

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Location: Parc des Expositions et Congrès, 3 boulevard de Champagne, 21000 Dijon, France

At this 10th edition of the ‘Rencontres européennes de la participation’, Décider Ensemble is placing a key topic at the heart of the discussion: “Deciding together – a promise we can keep?”.

Can we really decide together? The results of the 2026 local elections in France have clearly shown: There is an urgent need to act together and create democratic and participatory dynamics to combat disinformation, extremist ideas, discrimination and the concentration of power in the hands of a handful of decision-makers.

Décider Ensemble looks forward to welcoming many participants to REP26 to discuss together and find concrete ways to overcome these challenges.

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Location: Lean-in, Birrenkovenallee 13, 22143 Hamburg

In this three-day seminar, you will learn how to successfully apply Dynamic Facilitation.

The core of Dynamic Facilitation is to promote collective wisdom through dynamic exchange and the sharing of individual perspectives and feelings. The facilitator creates a framework in which each participant can connect with their inner self and contribute to finding solutions through authentic listening and deep understanding. Breakthroughs promote the process known as choice creating.

This unique facilitation method is particularly well suited to situations where complex problems need to be solved or creative solutions developed.

• Citizen participation and citizens' assemblies: Dynamic Facilitation enables citizens to actively participate in solution-finding processes. It promotes open dialogue and supports the development of solutions to social challenges.
• Innovation processes: In organisations, dynamic facilitation can be used to generate innovative ideas and tackle complex problems in product development or strategic planning.
• Conflict resolution: The method is also suitable for conflict resolution and mediation. It enables conflicting parties to express their concerns and search for solutions together.
• Team development: Dynamic Facilitation can be used in team development processes to strengthen cooperation and promote the creativity of team members.
• Coaching: In coaching, the method can be used to support individuals in solving personal challenges and activating their own creative resources.

Dynamic Facilitation can be used to reliably accompany a deeply transformative process.

The seminar offers the opportunity to learn from experienced trainers and exchange ideas with other participants. Short theory modules, lots of practice and regular reflection alternate.

Discover how you can use the potential of Dynamic Facilitation in your professional and private everyday life.

Learn more

Location: Evangelische Akademie Loccum, Münchehäger Str. 6, 31547 Rehburg-Loccum

With its interactive sessions, the Procedere workshop conference offers a platform for practitioners of procedural design and democracy development to exchange ideas and further develop their practices.

Further details will follow

An event organised by the Evangelische Akademie Loccum (Protestant Academy Loccum).

Location: Schloss Wartegg, Von Blarer-Weg 1, 9404 Rorschacherberg, Switzerland

Art of Hosting and Harvesting Conversations that Matter is both an attitude and a practice. It allows us to shape collaboration on an equal footing and enable collective intelligence. The three-day Art of Hosting training course is compact, intensive and offers plenty of scope for practical exercises.

We face major challenges in our spheres of influence - work, family, society. The exchange of pros and cons usually does not get us anywhere, but rather reinforces polarised positions.

Therefore, the following question is at the heart of this Art of Hosting training:

How can we find intelligent and far-sighted solutions despite or thanks to different interests and concerns?

With Art of Hosting, we can create spaces in which we ask courageous questions, listen to each other well and develop the next steps together from the different concerns and interests.

An event organised by  e7° Partizipation und Zusammenarbeit GmbH

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