
Empowering Citizens Conversation
Through empowering citizens conversations, the citizenry becomes further involved in the process. In a major event with a marketplace feeling, those already interested can exchange ideas with citizens drawn from a new lottery. Attendees can inform themselves, become motivated and take concrete first or follow-up steps home with them.
Participants: 50% newly drawn citizens, 50% open invitation. Experts, municipal representatives, citizens' initiatives, etc. provide information; Citizens' Assembly participants report on their experience.
Question: What can everyone contribute to achieve transformation?
Goals: Broadly increase awareness among the public and empower pioneers. Make new ideas from the business and science sectors known and accessible. Provide first-hand information about the Citizens' Assembly's process and recommendations. Engage people in stimulating conversations on the topic. Empower and encourage participating citizens to work together and move forward with politicians and social actors. Through information and exchange, participants should be motivated to take concrete first or next (individual and, if necessary, joint) steps, and, at best, to inspire other people in their surroundings for the issues at hand. The empowering citizen dialogue should expand the circle of people who are actively involved in the transformation process. The Citizens' Assembly citizens' report lays the groundwork for the fundamental content and framework.