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Applications Invited for Council of Europe World Forum for Democracy 2020: Call for initiatives
Organization: Council of Europe
Event Duration: 16 Nov. 2020 - 18 Nov. 2020
Apply By: 30 Jun 2020
About the Organization:
Council of Europe is an international organisation whose stated aim is to uphold human rights, democracy and the rule of law in Europe. Founded in 1949, it has 47 member states, with a population of approximately 820 million, and operates with an annual budget of approximately 500 million euros. The Council of Europe is an official United Nations Observer.
Call for Initiatives: Council of Europe World Forum for Democracy 2020
The World Forum for Democracy is a platform for global dialogue and democratic participation which brings new ideas into the work of the Council of Europe and promotes its principles across the world.
The 2020 World Forum for Democracy will debate the issues and generate new ideas for tackling the environmental crisis we face today. They will bring together leading voices from politics, business, NGOs, academia and journalism, and citizen-led initiatives from around the world.
The Forum is a unique platform for political decision-makers and activists to debate solutions to key challenges for democracies worldwide. By identifying and analysing experimental initiatives and practices, the Forum highlights and encourages democratic innovations at the grassroots and their transfer on a systemic level in order to strengthen the foundations of democratic societies. The Forum thus contributes to the evolution of democracy and the development of more participatory and inclusive structures and institutions. Plenary sessions will be an opportunity to discuss with speakers from all continents, political perspectives and walks of life and to frame the questions. The labs will allow participants to test innovative initiatives that offer responses to the key questions. This is a moment to think big and make change.
About the World Forum for Democracy 2020
Our societies have been tested by an extreme and unexpected global challenge in 2020, but while an essential battle is fought against the Covid-19 pandemic, humanity’s greatest existential threat looms ever larger. Environmental damage and climate change have not gone away. The poisoning of our land and pollution in our air and water is still killing plants, animals and humans alike. Rising temperatures and sea levels are on course to render lands uninhabitable and force people to leave their homes and seek new lives. The time to act is now!
Presenters of the selected initiatives will be invited to take part in the Forum Labs. The labs are the heart of the Forum. Their objective is to address specific issues through the critical analysis of tested initiatives. The initiatives will be presented and critically assessed by multidisciplinary panels and participants in the labs. The key conclusions and lessons learnt from the labs will be discussed in a summing up session to prepare the overall conclusions of the Forum.
Key issues to address:
- National governments, international organisations or the citizen: who is setting the pace?
- What governing style is best placed to tackle the environmental challenge?
- Public or private: what role for which sector?
Criteria:
Any public or private organisation is eligible to apply.
Initiatives should be addressing topics including, but not limited to:
- Climate activism
- Participatory practices for the environment
- Defending the defenders of the environment
- Local partnerships guiding behaviour change within communities
- Deliberative democracy and public policy
- Environmental entrepreneurship
- Global environmental justice
- Public-private partnerships for environmental protection
- Inequality and intersectionality facing climate change
- Digitalisation at the service of the environment
- Innovations in youth activism, youth mobilisation for the environment
- Environmental education, training and awareness-raising
- Use of new technologies to combat climate change
- Protecting biodiversity, ecosystems
- Sustainable development
- Green lobbying
Submissions should be made by answering the questionnaire in the appendix and sending it to forum_democracy@coe.int by 30 June 2020.
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