Creating an Inclusive European Citizens’ Assembly (EU-CIEMBLY)

欧盟- CIEMBLY解决了在欧盟政治生活中引入新形式的公民参与和审议的必要性，特别是欧盟公民大会，其设计和实施充分解决了交叉性、包容性和平等问题。虽然在欧盟一级改善参与性和协商性民主机制的愿望令人钦佩，但并不总是同时充分考虑如何建立这些机制，以确保避免交叉歧视和排斥弱势公民群体。事实上，欧盟法律中的“交叉性”概念即使没有纳入公民民主参与的背景，也会带来困难。创建一个新的参与性工具的时机已经成熟，将交叉性放在首位。该项目将提供分析框架和原型，通过该框架和原型，可以在欧盟一级以公民大会的形式创建这样一个工具，其特点是可以将（修改后的）原型转移到欧盟成员国的国家和地方一级。为了做到这一点，该项目从理论化到评估，最后试点这样一个工具，并提出建议。通过这种方式，EU-CIEMBLY力求成为第一个在设计创新和包容性的欧盟公民大会时，利用对交叉性、平等和权力关系问题的学术和理论理解的项目。

EU – CIEMBLY addresses the need for the introduction of new forms of citizens’ participation and deliberation in EU political life and, particularly, an EU Citizens’ Assembly whose design and implementation fully addresses issues of intersectionality, inclusiveness, and equality. While there has been an admirable appetite to improve the landscape of participatory and deliberative democratic mechanisms at the EU level, this has not always been accompanied by adequate considerations of how to build these mechanisms to ensure avoidance of intersectional discrimination and the exclusion of vulnerable groups of citizens. In fact, the concept of ‘intersectionality’ within EU law has presented difficulties even without bringing into the picture the context of citizens’ democratic participation. The time is ripe to create a new participatory tool with intersectionality at the forefront. This project will provide the analytical framework and the prototype through which such a tool can be created in the form of a Citizens’ Assembly that can be established at the EU level and with features allowing for the transfer of a (modified) prototype to the national and local levels of EU Member States. To do this, the project moves from theorising to evaluating and finally piloting such a tool and concludes with recommendations. In this way, EU-CIEMBLY seeks to be the first project that uses an academic and theoretical understanding of issues of intersectionality, equality, and power relations in the design of an innovative and inclusive EU Citizens’ Assembly.