Inter-university Certificate in Participatory Democracy

Belgium has become a real democratic laboratory. As a result, there is an increasing demand for expertise. The aim of this inter-university certificate is to provide participants, associations and institutions with training to help them reflect on and design innovative democratic projects.

 

It is organised by five partner universities: UCLouvain, UMons, ULB, ULiège and UNamur.

 

The strengths of the programme:

The course is aimed at people from a wide range of backgrounds (citizens, associations, institutions, movements, etc.) involved in democratic debate in different capacities. The certificate focuses in part on collective intelligence upstream and downstream: dialogue, exchange of experiences and networking between disciplines, experiences and projects.

More specifically, the course is aimed at project managers, civil servants, elected representatives, specialists in public space and spatial planning, members of urban development associations, workers wishing to reflect on their organisation's internal democracy, political advisers (parliamentary assistants, parties, members of cabinets), trade unions and mutual societies, citizens' groups wishing to reflect on democracy and set up a participatory system.

For more information: https://uclouvain.be/prog-2024-depa2fc