This session was moderated by Decider ensemble during the 4th Public Participation and Deliberative Democracy Festival. The speakers Joy Clara Schäflein, Ilias Qacham, Ariane De Backer and Quentin Madi experienced participating in a citizen assembly and talk about how this experience has transformed their understanding of democracy, their day-to-day life and their political and civic engagement.

This panel brings together scholarly, practitioner, activist and citizen perspectives on young people's efforts to deepen democracy. Insight from social science research as well as lived experience will inform a discussion on youth's quest for democratic change. The panel will highlight young people's drivers, the key resources at their disposal and the main obstacles they face when trying to improve democracy. This panel is addressed at activists, practitioners, academics and citizens who want to reflect on the work young people are doing to change democracy in a participatory and deliberative direction.

Organized by Democratic Society, the Municipality of Adazi and the UPLIFT project partners, this session from the European Commission's 4th Public Participation and Deliberative Democracy Festival features some lessons learnt from cities involved in co-creation processes.

Organized by České Priority, this session describes how anyone can become a good "forecaster" and how forecasting tournaments can be used to effectively engage citizens and make more robust predictions of future trends or events.