Deliberating Universities Network (Unidelib)

The Deliberating Universities Network (Unidelib) brings together academic institutions from around the world that aim to promote and introduce deliberative experimentations in universities.

Launched in November 2023, during the “Deliberation in action” conference organized by the Paris-Est Créteil University (UPEC) in France, the Deliberating Universities Network engages an ever-growing number of universities in France and around the world.

The network members believe that universities have a key role to play in forging a path to more sustainable democracy and to address climate change issues, beginning by transforming their own institution. Drawing from the French experience of the Climate change citizens' assembly, the Deliberating universities network members promote and introduce, in their own university, deliberative processes that takes the form of student citizens assemblies. These assemblies offer an innovative framework for student engagement and collective decision-making to address the need of a real transformation of universities so they can meet the challenges of the ecological and social transition.

Documentary Deliberating Universities, directed and produced by Yves Lechermeier

1) Sharing resources and mutual assistance in the development and implementation of deliberative processes by member universities:

• The network is a platform for mutual assistance and learning. The network lists, documents and makes accessible all the data produced through the deliberative processes implemented by its members, in order to create shared resources to facilitate the implementation and the study of university deliberative processes by all its members. The network allows member universities to access tools as well as human and financial resources.

2) A research mission:

To contact us, please write to emilie.frenkiel@u-pec.fr.