KNOCA Innovation Market 2025

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Eager to learn more about what’s happening at the cutting edge of climate assembly practice and theory? Want to know how your fellow officials, practitioners, researchers, and activists are shaping the future of assemblies? On Wednesday 28 May, we host another of our popular KNOCA Innovation Markets to explore ideas and practices that could influence the way we run climate assemblies in the future.

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Round 1

Topic 1: Accelerating Social Tipping Points – The Odyssean Process for Climate Action
Presenter: Giuseppe Dal Prá, Founder and CEO of the Odyssean Institute, United Kingdom'

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Topic 2: Linking Climate Assemblies and Referendums – How Can We Involve the Maxi Public?
Presenters: Rabea Koss and Sina Trölenberg, from BürgerBegehren Klimaschutz e.V, Germany

Topic 3: Organizing Climate Citizens’ Assemblies in Universities
Presenter: Emilie Frenkiel, associate professor in political science at UPEC and organizer of student citizens' assemblies for 5 years and initiator of the UNIDELIB network of deliberating universities, France

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Topic 4: Accelerating Climate Assembly Insights with ECHO – Making Every Voice Count Through Data-Driven Dialogue
Presenter: Evelien Nieuwenburg, co-founder of Dembrane, Netherlands

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Round 2

Topic 5: Rethinking the Global Citizens’ Assembly
Lessons from the subnational cases of Vorarlberg and South Tyrol
Presenter: Dr. Francesca Rosignoli, Senior Researcher at Institute for Minority Rights, Italy

Topic 6: Preparing a Response to an Assembly as a Government Official – An Impossible Job?
Presenter: Marvin Tiemessen, policy officer at the Ministry of Climate and Green Growth, Netherlands

Topic 7: Empowering Workers in High-Carbon Sectors
Giving them a voice in the decarbonisation of their industry
Presenter: George Hibberd, Safe Landing - Trade Union & Workers' Assembly Lead, United Kingdom

Topic 8: Exploring Patterns in Climate Citizen Assemblies (CCAs)
Presenter: Dr. Anja Salzer, Facilitation of WS and Research fellow, Germany

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Topic 9: Beyond Gross Domestic Product (GDP) – Democratic Ways of Defining the Common Good
Presenters: Florian Wagner and Lorenz Trattner, from 360°// GOOD ECONOMY NETZWERK, Austria

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