Deadline: 1-Jul-23

The Missions Publiques has launched a fellowship program with partners around the world in line with the view of decolonizing governance and deliberation in “democracy”.

They are searching a way to fund a face-to-face convening of all these wonderful people, some of them working in very difficult places like Russia, China, Algeria, Tchad, Central America, etc. They all do an incredible work but they see that their online interactions have now reached a limit.

A way they are imagining this meet up would be to collaborate with the Summer School of Participedia in Summer 24. Participedia has given a green light with the idea and coud partly support. It would be in Brazil.

Goals

• They are a agency specialized in participation and deliberative democracy at all levels. They have launched a fellowship program with partners around the world in line with their view of decolonizing governance and deliberation in “democracy”. The goal is:
  • To have a network of trusted partners ready to launch citizens’ Dialogues
  • To support capacity building and peer support in those places through a program of training and support
• The goal of the 2024 Summer School is threefold:
  • Inspire practitioners from around the world with the most up-to-date research results
  • Inspire researchers with the most advanced practices in deliberation from around the world.
  • Strengthen a network of change makers around the world to advance the practice and research on transnational deliberation.

Missions Publiques’ fellows are local experts, activists, researchers, civil society actors or entrepreneurs. All share the same passion: to improve decision-making and governance models and to address the challenge of combining and impacting local, regional, national or global decision-making levels in a way that is relevant to the 21st century.

Fellows enter into a long-term cooperation around international projects with major social and political stakes for the future of their societies and humanity and will ensure impact on a global and local scale.

The first editions have brought 70 fellows together in online sessions, representing 70 different countries with a majority from the Global South.

For more information, visit Missions Publiques.