Coimbra hosts kick-off meeting for EU-CIEMBLY

The Colégio da Trindade hosted the kick-off meeting of the "EU-CIEMBLY: Creating an Inclusive European Citizens' Assembly" from 20 to 22 February 2024. Having officially started in January, the project team was in Coimbra for a key working meeting to define the work plan for the next four years.

Coordinated by the UCILeR, the project has 11 partner institutions from 10 countries and 3 continents. In addition to the UC, there are the Universities of Essex, Complutense de Madrid, Witwatersrand Johannesburg, Bergamo, Victoria Wellington, and Waikato, as well as the associations Aspon, Institute for Methods Innovation, and Make.org. At the UCILeR, Dulce Lopes is the Principal Researcher of the project and leads the UC team made up of Alexandra Aragão, Matilde Lavouras, Fernando Borges, Lucia Muñoz, Clara Serrano, Joana Ricarte and Isabel Valente.

EU-CIEMBLY aims to design a new tool for participation in the EU, not only from a theoretical point of view but also by setting up pilot assemblies that will make it possible to formulate relevant legal and political recommendations in the field of citizen participation. The project is funded by the Horizon Europe programme.