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Recurring event · Biennial

Citizen Participation and Deliberative Democracy Festival

Brussels, Belgium

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European Commission festival on citizen participation and deliberative democracy, organised by its competence centre CC-DEMOS, part of the Joint Research Centre. It began in 2018 in Ispra as the Citizen Engagement Festival, continued in Brussels in 2019 and online in 2020, and has been biennial since. It brings together officials, researchers, practitioners, youth, artists and civil society. Tension: it is an institutional showcase, and the 2026 edition is framed by the European Democracy Shield, a framework more about security and resilience than citizen power.

Organised by
Competence Centre on Participatory and Deliberative Democracy (European Commission, JRC)
Since
2018
Frequency
Biennial · usual months: June, November or December
Continuity
Still held
Usual venue
Brussels, Belgium
Languages
English
Website
cop-demos.jrc.ec.europa.eu/festival ↗
Last reviewed
21 October 2026

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4 to 6 November 2026Democratic innovation

6th Citizen Participation and Deliberative Democracy Festival

Brussels · Belgium

Sixth edition, 4 to 6 November 2026 at the Berlaymont, the Commission's headquarters, with the European Democracy Shield as reference.

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