Programme

8:00 - 9:00

Walk-in and Covid testing

9:00 - 9:30 

Welcome & Introduction to Berlin and to this conference

Dominik Hierlemann, Anna Renkamp (Bertelsmann Stiftung); Dr. Angela Jain, Friedemann Walther (Senate Chancellery of Berlin) & David Schecter (Democracy R&D)

9:30 - 11:00 

Thematic introduction & networking activity in relation to the thematic streams: political buy-in, inclusive participation & democracy in (times of) crisis.

Moderators: Emily Williams (Bertelsmann Stiftung) & Maarten de Groot
Speakers: Claudine Nierth (Mehr Demokratie e.V.); Azucena Morán (IASS Potsdam) & Edlyne Anugwom (University of Nigeria)

11:00 - 11:30 

Break 

11:30 - 13:00 

Deliberative case studies - learning from successes, mistakes & dilemmas 

World café: exchanges based on input from impulse-givers

Hans-Liudger Dienel (nexus institute) & Angela Jain (Senate Chancellery of Berlin)

13:00 - 14:00 

Lunch 

14:00 - 15:00 

Parallel workshops - round 1 

• WS 01 The Conference on the Future of Europe’s Plenary: desirable innovation or smokescreen? 
  Yves Mathieu, Antoine Vergne (Missions Publiques) & Gaëtane Ricard-Nihoul (European Commission)

• WS 02 Enclave deliberation  
  Kimbra White (MosaicLab)

• WS 03 Wartime democracy: what’s going on w/ democracy & how to cope w/ war? Experience of Ukraine
  Olga Kutsenko (Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv & Technical University of Berlin) 
  (hybrid format)
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• WS 05 Gardener, sailor, firefighter - Three different collaborative response in times of democratic crisis
  Jessie Joe Jacobs (The Democracy Network, Involve) & Tom Brake (Unlock Democracy, Democracy Defence Coalition)

• WS 06 New deliberative institutions for the next democratic paradigm 
  Ieva Cesnulaityte & Aviv Ovadya

15:00 - 15:30 

Break 

15:30 - 16:30 

Parallel workshops - round 2 

• WS 07 Beyond crisis: reimagining democracy urgently for a shared future
  Sarah Castell & Charlotte Obijiaku (Involve)

• WS 08 Unpacking the Global Assembly: an exploration of the first global citizens' assembly pilot
  Claire Mellier, Remco van der Stoep (G1000.nu); Jon Stever (i4Policy) & Sanskriti Menon (CEE)

• WS 09 Creative techniques to foster more equal and inclusive deliberation
  Jez Hall & Pete Bryant (Shared Future CIC) (hybrid format)
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• WS 10 Mirar la democracia deliberativa desde el Sur Global/Global South perspectives of del. democ.
  Sofia Castillo & Carlos Brown (SUR Institute)

• WS 11 Assembling a volunteer-based citizens’ assembly with zero budget in times of political crisis
  David Dunetz & Ronen Goffer (The Heschel Center for Sustainability, CAI)

• WS 12 How to include citizen participation in crisis management
  Charly Pache

16:30-17:00 

Break 

17:00 - 18:30 

Dialogue: The future of participatory democracy

Lars Castellucci (Member of the German Bundestag, SPD)
Gisela Erler (Former State Counsellor for Civil Society and Citizen Participation at the State Ministry of Baden-Württemberg)
Gesine Märtens (State Secretary for Democracy, Europe and Equality, Saxony)
Colin Scicluna (Head of Cabinet, Vice President for Democracy & Demography; European Commission) 
Moderator: Dominik Hierlemann (Bertelsmann Stiftung)

18:30 - 20:00 

Standing reception, finger food buffet 

8:30 - 9:00

Walk-in

9:00 - 9:45

Welcome back

Impressions from day 1 & reports from workshops 

Dominik Hierlemann (Bertelsmann Stiftung)

9:45 - 11:00

Parallel workshops - round 3

• WS 13 Let a thousand flowers bloom: scaling out and replicating citizen deliberation
  Silvia Cervellini (Delibera Brasil ) & Pete Bryant (Shared Future) (hybrid format)
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• WS 14 Next level citizen participation in the EU – institutionalising European citizens’ assemblies 
  Andrey Demidov, Dominik Hierlemann & Anna Renkamp (Bertelsmann Stiftung)

• WS 15 Including the ignored
  Irene Alonso Toucido & Yves Dejaeghere (FIDE)

• WS 16 Rising above crisis: deliberative democracy and consolidation of democracy in Central Africa
  Edlyne Anugwom, Ben Nwosu & ‪Chikodiri Nwangwu (University of Nigeria)

• WS 17 Bursting our bubble: using deliberative practices for constitutional reform & political result
  Wendy Willis (Oregon's Kitchen Table; Deliberative Democracy Consortium) & Graham Allen (Former Member of Parliament)

• WS 18 Where next for climate assemblies?
  Graham Smith (Knowledge Network on Climate Assemblies) & Mark Beanland
  (Danish Board of Technology)

11:00 - 11:30

Break

11:30 - 13:00

Democracy R&D development & related affairs

David Schecter & the Coordination Working Group

13:00 - 14:00

Lunch

14:00 - 15:30

Open space – part 1

Discussions in small groups and reporting back in plenary

James Robertson (Sortition Foundation)

15:30 - 16:00

Break

16:00 - 18:00

Open space – part 2

Discussions in small groups and reporting back in plenary

James Robertson (Sortition Foundation)

In parallel: meeting with German politicians in the Bundestag

Helge Lindh (SPD)
Leon Eckert (Alliance 90/The Greens)
Ralph Edelhäußer (CSU)
Roman Huber (Mehr Demokratie e.V.)

19:00/19:30 - 21:30

Garden party at nexus institute 

Including food, beverages and 'after-dinner-speech' (at 20:15): "The Chilean Deliberative Poll", by James Fishkin, Tomás González Olavarría, Alice Siu 
Hans-Liudger Dienel (nexus institute)

8:30 - 9:00

Walk-in 

9:00 - 9:30

Introduction to the Deliberative Democracy School

Hans-Liudger Dienel (nexus institute) & Angela Jain (Senate Chancellery of Berlin)

09:30 - 10:45

Parallel training sessions - round 1

• TS 01 Decision-makers as movers and shakers, communities as moonrakers: comparing two models
  Mel Stevens, Pandora Ellis (Democratic Society) & Tom Lord (Sortition Foundation)

• TS 02 Talking change: speaking the story of deliberation into reality
  This session has been cancelled. Registered participants for this session can choose another session that still has capacity on the spot on day 3, without prior registration.

• TS 03 Partnership and participation: the G1000.nu approach to whole system buy-in
  Harm van Dijk, Mirjam de Pagter & Remco van der Stoep (G1000.nu)

• TS 04 Facilitating collaboration: groups self-writing reports & reaching common ground – part 1 
  Kimbra White (MosaicLab) Integrated session with TS 09 

• TS 05 Towards collaborative governance: enabling public authorities to harness the power of deliberation 
  Prof. Patrizia Nanz, Giulia Molinengo, Lukas Kübler, Monika Arzberger & Torben Voss (CO:LAB | BASE)

10:45 - 11:15

Break

11:15 - 12:30

Parallel training sessions - round 2   

• TS 06 Taking deliberations online 
  Ceri Davies & Duncan Grimes (National Centre for Social Research)

• TS 07 Bringing citizens' assemblies to the public 
  Thorsten Sterk (Mehr Demokratie e.V.)

• TS 08 Pre-deliberation learning focused on lower formal educational groups make better assemblies
  Ana Lucia Lima (Delibera Brasil) & Christiane Dienel (nexus institute)

• TS 09 Facilitating collaboration: groups self-writing reports & reaching common ground – part 2
  Kimbra White (MosaicLab) Integrated session with TS 04

• TS 10 Democratic infrastructures: turning one-off deliberations into resilient democracies
  Hanne Bastiaensen & max stearns (Democratic Society)

12:30 - 13:30

Lunch

13:30 - 14:45

Parallel training sessions - round 3

• TS 11 How to train politicians and senior leaders on climate engagement 
  Rebekah McCabe & Kaela Scott (Involve)

• TS 12 Recruiting representative samples by democratic lottery: what does this actually mean? 
  Rich Rippin (Sortition Foundation)

• TS 13 We're gonna need a bigger room: large-scale participant-led deliberation 
  Harm van Dijk, Mirjam de Pagter & Remco van der Stoep (G1000.nu)

• TS 14 Reflections on the politics of deliberative action in Taiwan
  Tze-Luen Lin & Chia-Hua Lu (National Taiwan University) (hybrid format)
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14:45 - 15:15

Break

15:15 - 16:00

Evaluation & closing

Anna Renkamp (Bertelsmann Stiftung); Maarten de Groot & David Schecter (Democracy R&D)