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Image of the text: Spring School on Climate Citizens' Assemblies, Warsaw, 4-6 June.

The 2025 Spring School in Warsaw was an immersive three-day training for those designing, supporting, and commissioning deliberative processes across Europe. Civil servants, practitioners and advocates were working through the full arc of the assembly process. Each day combined insights from local and international experts, providing the necessary diversity that assemblies require.

Participants were working in small groups, tapping into each other’s experiences and sharing challenges and reflections. We grounded the learning experience through case studies and mixed a range of profiles, backgrounds and expertise. The Spring School became a space to reflect, connect, and strengthen our shared practice.

A special one-day Deep Dive on Involving Children and Youth in Citizens’ Assemblies provided additional insights into making deliberative processes more inclusive and representative.

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  • Structured on the KNOCA guidance, the workshop of Child Rights International Network will present a children’s rights-based framework for designing and delivering participatory/deliberative democratic processes with children and young people. These processes include: setting the remit, organising sortition/democratic lottery with children and young people, safeguarding and inclusion, deliberative tools and methods, facilitation techniques, and monitoring and evaluating impact.

    Katie Reid, Adviser (Children’s Rights, Democracy and Climate), CRIN

    Lianne Minasian, Co-Director, CRIN

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Graham Smith who shows his back to us is presenting to an audience at the Spring School in Warsaw.

Recordings of the sessions are coming soon !

SPEAKERS

  • Portrait Photo of Camille Dobler

    Camille Dobler

    Missions Publiques

  • Portrait Photo of Graham Smith

    Graham Smith

    KNOCA

  • Portrait Photo of Katarzyna Pawlowska

    Katarzyna Pawlowska

    Shipyard Foundation

  • Portrait Photo of Eva Mackevica

    Eva Mackevica

    Field of Dialogue Foundation

  • Portrait Photo of Yves Dejaeghere

    Yves Dejaeghere

    FIDE - Europe

  • Portrait Photo of Kelly Mcbride

    Kelly McBride

    AIETAL Co

  • Portrait Photo of Zuzanna Nowak

    Zuzanna Nowak

    Trainer, Facilitator, Deliberation expert

  • Portrait Photo of Kyle Redman

    Kyle Redman

    FIDE - Europe

  • Portrait Photo of Paulina Pospieszna

    Paulina Pospieszna

    Adam Mickiewicz University

  • Portrait Photo of Ewa Stokluska

    Ewa Stokluska

    Shipyard Foundation

INVOLVING CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE

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A deep dive

  • Founder, Climate Justice for Rosa; Climate Adviser, Child Rights International Network

    Benjamin is an 18-year-old climate and children's rights activist from Belgium. He founded Climate Justice for Rosa after losing his friend in the 2021 floods, advocating for the recognition of climate victims. As an EU Climate Pact Ambassador, climate adviser to CRIN, and UNEP representative in the UN Youth Core Group, he works to make climate decision-making more inclusive for young people. He has participated in three COPs and successfully campaigned for the EU Day for the Victims of the Global Climate Crisis, continuing to push for bold climate action.

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Headshot of of Lianne Minasian.

  • Adviser, Children’s Right, Democracy and Climate, Child Rights International Network

    Katie’s work and research over the last ten years has focused on child, youth and intergenerational participatory processes on issues related to the environment and climate change. In her work with CRIN, Katie focuses on how deliberative democratic processes such as citizens’ assemblies can better involve children and young people, having led the children’s participation process in Scotland’s Climate Assembly and Ireland’s Children and Young People’s Assembly on Biodiversity Loss. She currently advises on several citizens’ assemblies taking place at the national and transnational (EU) level.

  • Co-Director, Child Rights International Network

    Lianne has worked for CRIN for over fi ve years with a focus on children’s environmental rights, including co-developing its group of Climate Advisers and engaging in key global climate advocacy spaces alongside them. She co-leads CRIN and focuses on a range of children’s rights issues, including children’s rights and democracy.

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