UCILeR gets funding for Horizon Europe project coordination

The project EU-CIEMBLY: Creating an Inclusive European Citizens' Assembly has been selected for funding under the topic Intersectionality and equality in deliberative and participatory democratic spaces TOPIC ID: HORIZON-CL2-2023-DEMOCRACY-01-07 in Cluster 2 of Horizon Europe. EU-CIEMBLY will be coordinated by the UCILeR, led by Dulce Lopes.

EU – CIEMBLY addresses the need for the introduction of new forms of citizens’ participation and deliberation in EU political life and, particularly, an EU Citizens’ Assembly whose design and implementation fully addresses issues of intersectionality, inclusiveness, and equality.

EU-CIEMBLY aims to provide the analytical framework and the prototype through which such a tool can be created in the form of a Citizens’ Assembly that can be established at the EU level and with features allowing for the transfer of a (modified) prototype to the national and local levels of EU Member States.

The consortium includes the University of Essex (UK), Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain), European Citizens Action Service (Belgium), University of the Witwatersrand Johannesburg (South Africa), Institute for Methods Innovation (Ireland), Aspon Consulting (Cyprus), Universita' Degli Studi Di Bergamo (Italy) Victoria University of Wellington (New Zealand), University of Waikato (New Zealand) and Make.Org (France). The total funding is EUR 2 998 845.00 for 48 months.