REAL DEAL is a brand new research project, funded by the Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation programme, that aims at reshaping the active participation of citizens and stakeholders around the European Green Deal (EGD).
Building on recent experiences of pan-European deliberation processes, such as the Conference on the Future of Europe, the REAL DEAL’s main research objective is to analyse, test and validate innovative citizens’ participation and deliberation tools, formats and processes in the context of the green and just transition.
The research partners have started to lay out the conceptual foundations for a future protocol for deliberative decision-making at European and national level in the context of the European Green Deal. This will be followed by the testing and validation of innovative deliberative formats and tools across 13 countries and at EU level, including digital, hybrid and physical events and processes.
In parallel, the REAL DEAL partners have started to identify and mobilise a pan-European network of stakeholders, with more than 500 organisations working in the areas of deliberative democracy and climate action across Europe. The first meeting of this stakeholder network took place during the “Civil Society Forum for Sustainability: Shaping the European Green Deal”, last week.
To meet the ambitious objectives for its research and citizen outreach activities, REAL DEAL brings together sixteen partners, including researchers of deliberative democracy and Europe’s largest civil society organisations (CSOs). The project takes a dedicated transdisciplinary approach, with joint work between the partners throughout: from the project proposal and refining the research questions, to the execution of the work packages and the internal review.
From a citizen outreach perspective, the REAL DEAL is set to engage with citizens and other stakeholders by building a community of Europeans who promote participation and deliberation in the green and just transition. The digital hub where citizens can get involved and take action is: www.realdeal.eu.
The project is jointly coordinated by the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS), a research organisation, and the European Environmental Bureau (EEB), a civil society organisation.
More about the partners
The REAL DEAL research project involves:
The full list of partners is:
Contact and additional information
For inquiries on the REAL DEAL research project, please contact:
Ingeborg Niestroy, IASS: ingeborg.niestroy@iass-potsdam.de
Manuela Gervasi, EEB: manuela.gervasi@eeb.org
For any press-related enquiries, please contact:
Sebastián Rodríguez – European Movement International
You can read more about the REAL DEAL project here.
Disclaimer
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 101037071.