Democratic Odyssey
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European Alternatives œuvre à promouvoir la démocratie, l’égalité et la culture au-delà de l’État-nation et à imaginer, exiger et mettre en œuvre des alternatives pour un avenir viable.
Résidence artiviste – Les Voix de l’Eau : De la Rivière à la Mer
📍 Bobigny, Île-de-France📅 17–21 novembre 2025 POSTULEZ ICI ! Les problématiques Comment l’eau, d’une rive à l’autre, traverse-t-elle nos vies et nos luttes ?Comment créer un lien empathique à travers rivières, canaux, mers et vivants aquatiques ?Comment rendre visibles les…
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Palestine and Italy, between double talk and impotence
By Gianluca Solera, advisory board member Years ago, a Palestinian writer, we were in Ramallah, told me that every time Israel comes with good news, you have to worry about the bad news hidden behind it. She had given me…
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Campaigns
At European Alternatives we campaign collectively.Our campaigns bring together movements, communities, and partners to amplify voices, build solidarity, and push for transnational change. We work across borders to challenge injustice, advocate for democracy, and create imaginative actions that connect local…
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CCLabs Conference on Education for Democracy
Event Overview The DEMOCRAT conference on Education for Democracy aims to contribute to the debate about the role of civic education, and in particular democratic education, in fostering the resilience of the EU model of democracy.Democracy is conceived not only as a…
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Between Land and Sea Festival 2025 — Palermo
November & December 2025 European Alternatives is proud to be a partner of the 6th edition of Between Land and Sea, the cultural and political festival produced by Fondazione Studio Rizoma in Palermo. Rooted in the shared realities of the…
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TRANSEUROPA26: Reclaiming the Cloud
But still, like air, I’ll rise.Maya Angelou After finding the Undercurrents of new political imaginaries in Venice in 2024, and igniting Margins on Fire in Paris in 2025, the October 2026 edition of TRANSEUROPA Festival will inflate life into our…
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Youth Movement & Campaign Accelerator
The Youth Movement & Campaign Accelerator is part of European Alternatives’ School of Transnational Organizing and offers European youth and community leaders a space to organise and develop actions to advance struggles for solidarity, democracy and climate justice.
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Dirty Work
by Gianluca Solera “Israel is doing the dirty work for all of us”. When the German Chancellor stated it during the last G7, held in mid-June, he was proud of himself and proud of being a pro-Israel supporter whatever it…
Ceasefire Now! Open call for an immediate ceasefire in the Gaza strip and Israel.
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Report on Dissemination Event for Ordinary Citizens
The Democratic Odyssey is a crowdsourced campaign aimed at democratic renewal through the establishment of a “permanent people’s assembly for Europe”. It brings together a wide-ranging and pluralistic group of actors, including academics, practitioners, journalists, institutional representatives and civil society.…
Letter to my fellow anti-colonialism fighters
By Rasha Shaaban, Cultural Organiser based in Gothenburg with roots in Alexandria, and Board Member of European Alternatives. For the past two years, I have been angry. I’ve been feeling an anger coming out from disbelief and witnessing unbearable injustice.…
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A Citizens’ Assembly for Europe: Why Permanence is key
by Kalypso Nicolaidis In 2020, Alberto Alemanno, Niccolo Milanese and myself called for the upcoming Conference on the Future of Europe to create a permanent citizens’ assembly for Europe (Alemanno et al, 2020). Subsequently we launched the Democratic Odyssey project,…
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Education
At European Alternatives we are always learning. We seek to create spaces to share our experiences and learn from wider movements, communities and partners. To this end, we co-create training and learning programmes for young people, activists, civil society, people…
Democracy in Crisis: Towards Permanent Citizens’ Assemblies
Photo credits: Noemi Pittalà On 14 October 2025, in Brussels, the European Parliament hosted a roundtable co-organised with Democratic Odyssey to debate a bold question: Should a Permanent European Citizens’ Assembly stand alongside the European Parliament? This moment marked the…