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Programme Online Forum

 

Monday, 21 September 2020

   10:00 - 11:30 CEST

 

   14:00 - 15:30 CEST

  

   Track 1:  Swiss Direct Democracy in Practice

  Lecture: Tools, Issues, Campaigns and Votes

   16:00 - 17:30 CEST

 

   18:30 - 20:00 CEST

 

   Track 2: Climate, Sustainability and Direct Democracy

Workshop: How can the Simultaneous Policy (Simpol) campaign solve global problems like Climate Change?

   20:00 - 21:30 CEST

 
Tuesday, 22 September 2020

   10:00 - 11:30 CEST

  

   Track 1:  Swiss Direct Democracy in Practice

   Briefing: International Dimensions of Participation. Swiss Inputs to Bridging the Gap

 

   14:00 - 15:30 CEST

 

   Track 4: Democracy in Crisis

    Panel: Corona Dictatorships

   16:00 - 17:30 CEST

 

   Track 2: Climate, Sustainability and Direct Democracy

   Workshop: Citizens' Convention on the Climate in France

   18:30 - 20:00 CEST

 

   Track 3: Future of Democracy

   Panel: Can a World Citizens' Initiative help strenghten the UN?

   20:00 - 21:30 CEST

 
Wednesday, 23 September 2020

   10:00 - 11:30 CEST

 

   14:00 - 15:30 CEST

 

   Track 2: Climate, Sustainability and Direct Democracy

    Workshop: Citizens' Initiative on Climate in Austria

   16:00 - 17:30 CEST

 

   Track 3: Future of Democracy

  Panel: Will the Young Push for more Direct Democracy?

   18:30 - 20:00 CEST

 

   Track 2: Climate, Sustainability and Direct Democracy

  Lecture: With Direct Democracy for Better Cycle Paths

   20:00 - 21:30 CEST

 

   Track 4: Democracy in Crisis

  Panel: The Challenges of elections and direct democracy in Mexico in times of COVID-19

Thursday, 24 September 2020

   10:00 - 11:30 CEST

 

   Track 3: Future of Democracy

  Workshop: Comparing Petitioning Online Collection Systems

   14:00 - 15:30 CEST

 

   Track 1:  Swiss Direct Democracy in Practice

  Panel: Towards the 2021 Democracy City Summit in Bern, Switzerland

   16:00 - 17:30 CEST

 

   18:30 - 20:00 CEST

 

   Track 4: Democracy in Crisis

  Panel: The American election during COVID-19: The pandemic's influence on voter turnout

   20:00 - 21:30 CEST

 
Friday, 25 September 2020

   10:00 - 11:30 CEST

 

   14:00 - 15:30 CEST

 

   Track 1:  Swiss Direct Democracy in Practice

   Panel: The September 27 Popular Voting Day: Issues, Backgrounds and the Role of Public Media 

   16:00 - 17:30 CEST

 

  Track 2: Climate, Sustainability and Direct Democracy

  Panel: Complementary Paths to Climate Change

   18:30 - 20:00 CEST

 

   Track 3: Future of Democracy

  Panel: Global Democracy - How it can be implemented soon

   20:00 - 21:30 CEST

 

   Track 4: Democracy in Crisis

  Lecture: Ruling by obeying as a form of government: social participation in the times of the fourth transformation of Mexico

Saturday, 26 September 2020

   11:30 - 12:00 CEST

 

   All tracks

  Welcome & Workshop Presentation

   12:00 - 13:30 CEST

 

   All tracks

  Panel: Our Democratic Future

   13:30 - 14:00 CEST

   Lunch break

   14:00 - 16:00 CEST

 

   All tracks

  OPEN SPACE: People Power around the World

 

 

   Track 3: Future of Democracy

  Campaigning for Direct Democracy

 

 

   Track 1:  Swiss Direct Democracy in Practice

  From the streets to the Elysée: Introducing the RIC in France

 

 

   Track 4: Democracy in Crisis

  Lessons from the Coronavirus crisis

 

 

   Track 3: Future of Democracy

  European Public Sphere

 

 

   Track 2: Climate, Sustainability and Direct Democracy

  Catching the deliberative wave

 

 

   Track 3: Future of Democracy

  How to strengthen European citizenship? A debate on full political rights for EU citizens on the move

 

 

   Track 4: Democracy in Crisis

  Crisis-Governance

 

 

   Track 3: Future of Democracy

   On our future: From competitive to co-creative democracy

   

   16:00 - ? CEST

 

   All tracks

  Online Forum Afterwork Party

Wednesday, 30 September 2020

   01:30 - 03:00 am CEST

 

   Track 3: Future of Democracy

  Closing session: Should Global Democracy Become More Direct?

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