The Festival runs on 20th-21st October 2022 in Brussels (Belgium), Ispra (Italy) and online and brings together people of diverse backgrounds that are interested in, and work on, engagement of citizens in science, policymaking and deliberative democracy in Europe (and globally).

4th Public Participation and Deliberative Democracy Festival

The Democracy Festival each year features a variety of events including open conversations, interactive sessions, artwork, and an exhibition of participatory and/or deliberative democracy projects. To coincide with the European Year of Youth, this year the theme of the Festival is ‘Youth Participation’. 

Download the agenda of the event.

The Festival is also the principal annual networking event for the Community of Practice of the Competence Centre on Participatory and Deliberative Democracy.

How To Participate

The registration is open. You will need to register before 30th September 2022 if you are attending the Festival in person in Brussels or Ispra, or online via Zoom. You will not need to register, however to access the livestreams of the in presence events.

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It has grown to become a unique communication and networking platform, bringing together regions and cities from all over Europe, including politicians, administrators, experts and academics. Over the last 18 years, it has done much to promote policy learning and the exchange of good practice.

Due to Covid, the 2020 edition of the European Week of Regions and Cities went online, attracting more than 10.000 participants.

European Week of Regions and Cities 2021

The 2021 edition is going to be an opportunity to debate, keeping communities connected, exchanging best practices and ideas between partners and participants on four themes:

• Cohesion;
• Green transition;
• Digital transition;
• Citizens’ engagement.

The title of this edition is in fact “Together for Recovery“. It will focus on the capacity of the EU and of national and regional governments to support European citizens and their local communities with practical measures and public policies aimed at investing in a fairer, greener and more digital future for recovery.

The new generation of EU programmes for 2021-2027 will be the centre stage of this year event.

The EURegionsWeek also contributes to the ongoing debate on democracy and citizens’ engagement in the context of the Conference on the future of Europe and invites its partners to actively participate through the Multilingual Digital Platform.

How To Register

The European Week of Regions and Cities is an annual four-day event during which cities and regions showcase their capacity to create growth and jobs, implement European Union cohesion policy, and prove the importance of the local and regional level for good European governance.

The new platform gives access to many features: registration to the event until the last day, engagement, networking, community and more.

Log in and create your profile to start.

You can also download the program to check on what it is up to.

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