Nick, SaschaPalazzo, Guido2022-02-272022-02-272022-02-272021-10-18https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/185735Reducing CO2 emissions, restricting pesticides to protect health and biodiversity, enhancing corporate responsibility: why is Switzerland, one of the more democratic countries of the world, repeatedly failing to create a proper societal dialogue to face today’s challenges? What can we do about it? What does it take to create truly participative and deliberative democracies? The Academic Citizens’ Assembly is a vision, a process and a prototype of such a democracy, first held in June 2021. What did we learn, and what can we do next to improve and scale? Will you join our next edition?Citizens assemblies and the role of narrativestext::conference output::conference presentation