Agora Citizens Assemblies

At the initiative of the Federal Ombudsman, in September 2018, 46 citizens drawn by lot from an online survey on trust and satisfaction with the federal administration were gathered in the Belgian Senate to think together and formulate recommendations on the future of the federal administration.

In 2017, the Parliament of Wallonia initiated a citizen's panel gathering 30 randomly selected citizens, following a survey about the long-term challenges of aging, to continue the reflection by deliberating around this theme in order to produce recommendations for the Parliament and the Walloon Government.

In March 2017, the municipality of Molenbeek-Saint-Jean commissioned a citizens' panel of about 100 Molenbeekers to deliberate on the causes of radicalization among young people and the preventive measures to be taken, as well as the issue of bringing communities together.

In 2015, the University of Liège organized a panel of randomly selected citizens from the Province of Luxembourg to deliberate on climate and energy issues, with the objective of feeding political action with new and original citizen proposals in order to support the environmental ambitions of the Province.

In 2013, the Foundation for Future Generations coordinated, with various institutional and private partners, a process of citizen participation involving 24 randomly selected citizens to think about the world in which it would be desirable to grow old, whether in terms of health care, end of career or housing.