The report from the European Commission identifies 10 key challenges and emerging trends impacting European democratic systems and suggests future policy options.

Insights from workshops with citizens in ten EU Member States.  

With “Ensuring Impact – A Guide to Effective Set-up and Follow-up of Citizen Participation”, the Bertelsmann Stiftung, together with the Federation for Innovation in Democracy Europe (FIDE), publishes a comprehensive guide for designing participation processes that deliver real impact.

The spatial dimension of democratic resilience. 

Public Sector Tech Watch is the European Commission Observatory dedicated to monitoring, analysing and disseminating the use of emerging technologies (e.g., Blockchain, Artificial Intelligence, etc.) within the public sector in Europe.

Report of the annual activities of the European Commission’s Competence Centre on Participatory and Deliberative Democracy, for the year of 2024.

These Guidelines’ purpose is to inspire and support the thinking and practice of evaluating a broad range of (invited) citizen engagement processes conceived in support of Commission’s, and other kindred institutions’, policy objectives and files.

Mapping of national and regional/local Climate Assemblies across Europe done by the Knowledge Network on Climate Assemblies (KNOCA). While KNOCA primarily focuses on climate assemblies, the mapping also includes examples of assemblies that address issues around environment and biodiversity.

Participedia is a crowdsourcing platform that catalogues public participation processes and democratic innovations around the world. The Participedia platform is published under a Creative Commons license and is accessible and editable by anyone. Content is divided in:

This Digest is one of several Digests realized within the BiodiverCities project. The Digest consist of a short document generally focusing on a topic of relevance to the project's scope - citizen engagement in support of urban biodiversity.