KNOCA Innovation Market 2025

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Eager to learn more about what’s happening at the cutting edge of climate assembly practice and theory? Want to know how your fellow officials, practitioners, researchers, and activists are shaping the future of assemblies? On Wednesday 28 May, we host another of our popular KNOCA Innovation Markets to explore ideas and practices that could influence the way we run climate assemblies in the future.

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The topics and presenters are:

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• Rethinking the global citizens' assembly through the lessons learned from the subnational cases of Vorarlberg and South Tyrol, with Dr. Francesca Rosignoli, Senior Researcher at Institute for Minority Rights, Italy

• Linking Climate Assemblies and Referendums: How Can We Involve the Maxi Public?, with Rabea Koss and Sina Trölenberg, from BürgerBegehren Klimaschutz e.V, Germany

• Preparing a response to an assembly as a government official. An impossible job?, with Marvin Tiemessen, policy officer at the Ministry of Climate and Green Growth, Netherlands

• Organizing Climate Citizens' Assemblies in Universities, with Emilie Frenkiel, associate professor in political science at UPEC and organizer of student citizens' assemblies for 5 years and initiator of the UNIDELIB network of deliberating universities, France

• Accelerating Climate Assembly Insights with ECHO: Making Every Voice Count Through Data-Driven Dialogue, with Evelien Nieuwenburg, co-founder of Dembrane, Netherlands

• Exploring Patterns in Climate Citizen Assemblies (CCAs), with Dr. Anja Salzer, Facilitation of WS and Research fellow, Germany

• Beyond Gross Domestic Product (GDP) - democratic ways of defining common good, with Florian Wagner and Lorenz Trattner, from 360°// GOOD ECONOMY NETZWERK, Austria
• Accelerating Social Tipping Points: The Odyssean Process for Climate Action, with Giuseppe Dal Prá, Founder and CEO of the Odyssean Institute, United Kingdom
• The importance of empowering workers in high-carbon sectors to have a voice in the decarbonisation of their industry, with George Hibberd, from Safe Landing and Trade Union & Workers' Assembly Lead, United Kingdom

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