Status: activeType: 🏛️ networkCountry: Belgium Website: fidemocracy.org

Status	active
Type	🏛️ network
Country	Belgium
Website	fidemocracy.org
Contact	europe@fidemocracy.org Contact form ↗
Concepts	Citizens Assembly Deliberative Democracy Sortition
Last activity	2026-09-17 dod Homepage confirms org still active with 2026 news and training programmes; deliberative-democracy/citizens'-assembly mission matches. Recorded contact (europe@fidemocracy.org + form) still current; a separate north.america@fidemocracy.org address also exists but a general channel is already on file.

FIDE — Federation for Innovation in Democracy

FIDE — the Federation for Innovation in Democracy — is an independent network of democratic innovators working to embed deliberative processes in the machinery of governance. Its three pillars are training (capacity-building schools, masterclasses for lead facilitators), design (process architecture for governments at every level, from municipalities to international bodies), and evaluation (learning series, publications, quality standards).

FIDE has worked with the Council of Europe, CESE France, and city governments in Paris, Milan, Boulder, and Yukon, among others. Its 2026 Forum is being held in Vienna. The organisation is notable for operating at the infrastructure level: it does not run individual citizens' assemblies itself but builds the field's capacity to do so well, filling the gap between academic research and frontline practice.

Links

• Website: fidemocracy.org

See also

• Citizens' Assembly
• Deliberative Democracy
• Sortition
• G1000
• newDemocracy Foundation

Upcoming events

• 2026-10-09 Online webinar: what the next €2 trillion EU budget means for civil society and local governments
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  Save the date | Join us on October 9 for a webinar on what the EU budget means for civil society and local governments.

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• 2026-10-15–2026-10-17 Lead Facilitator Masterclass — Washington, D.C., in partnership with We Do Democracy
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  Washington, D.C. – October 15-17

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• 2026-10-22–2026-10-24 Lead Facilitator Masterclass — San Francisco, in partnership with We Do Democracy
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  San Francisco, CA – October 22-24

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• 2026-11-18–2026-11-19 FIDE Forum 2026: From Novel to Normal — making deliberation a democratic standard, ViennaFlagship conference/summit
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  A conference for practitioners, public officials, political parties, NGOs, and funders to move this field from the margins to the mainstream. To build the infrastructure, lift the standards, and create the political will to make it permanent.

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History

• 2026-09-14–2026-09-16 Lead Facilitator Masterclass — Copenhagen, in partnership with We Do Democracy
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