Climate Connect Special: Mehr Bürgerbeteiligung für eine stärkere Demokratie?

More citizen participation for a stronger democracy?

In this special series on the 2025 elections, we talk about democracy across national borders. In Germany, citizen participation processes are being called for and implemented more frequently - most recently the Citizens' Council on Nutrition in Transition. How useful are such formats for increasing citizen participation? What results can citizen participation processes achieve? How can they be organised effectively and still be open-ended? And how can their demands become more binding in cooperation with the government and administration? In this episode of Climate Connect, we will talk about this and explore whether and what Germany can learn from Switzerland in terms of (direct) democracy.

Speakers
Kathrin Schlup | Senior Project Manager and former Co-Director sanu ag, Switzerland
Specialisations: Design and moderation of participation and strategy processes, development-oriented leadership, organisational development, sustainability

Dr Mirjam Jenny | Scientific Director at the Institute for Planetary Health Behaviour, University of Erfurt 
Focuses: Research communication, Planetary Health Behaviour

Moderation
Sarah Pelull | Science Coordinator at the Institute for Planetary Health Behaviour, University of Erfurt