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33 years after Romania’s first free elections, democracy remains unfinished.

Taking place in Bucharest on Saturday May 20, 2023, UNFINISHED Democracy seeks new, creative and productive ways to gather across political affiliations and disciplines.

Launching in an extraordinary evening at the Ateneul Român, the mission of UNFINISHED Democracy is to find concrete ways to make democracy more resilient, near and far.

With democracy faltering within and across borders, this gathering of minds strives to be the hyphen between worlds that typically don’t meet, even if they share both planet and politics.

We believe that democracy needs an urgent upgrade and that we the people must be part of it. Join in!

There are four different ways to contribute to UNFINISHED Democracy.

1. Attend our Evening of Democracy at the Ateneul Roman from 19:00 to 21:00 [invitation with RSVP only] or watch live on Digi24.

2. Join the citizens’ consultation from 9:30 to 17:00 and turn your vision for a better democracy into actionable policy recommendations. Participants in the consultations are automatically invited to the Evening of Democracy!

3. Sign your children up to Kids for Democracy from 9:30 to 17:00 to turn their vision for the future into creative public projects.

4. Submit your own ideas or recommendations for better governance so they may inform and inspire this mission.

Speakers

Achilles
Tsaltas

President of the Democracy & Culture Foundation

@atsaltas

Daniel
David

Rector & Professor of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy at the Babeș-Bolyai University,
Cluj-Napoca

Kimberley
Motley

International Human Rights Lawyer

@motleyslaw

The Lord Griffiths
of Burry Port

Member of the House of Lords & Member of the UK Delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) of the Council of Europe

Dana
Dajani

Artist & Poet

@danadajani.poetry

Octavian
Lup

Cellist & Founder of New Hope Music

Ovidiu
Lup

Pianist

Ginny
Badanes

Senior Director, Democracy Forward Initiative, Microsoft

Yuri
Sanches

Head of Political Risk at AtlasIntel

Pedro
Azevedo

Political Risk Analyst at AtlasIntel

Teodora
Tompea

Journalist, News Anchor & “Focus on Europe” Host

@teodora_tompea

More to be announced soon!

Poll

Unfinished Democracy
is open to all

UNFINISHED Democracy is open to all. Anyone who wants better governance may apply to participate in the consultation, regardless of age, profession or location. 

An unprecedented survey on the state of democracy in the region is being conducted by Atlas Intel and EIDOS Foundation, in parallel to the consultations. The results of this large-scale public consultation, aimed at producing an MRI of democracy across Romania and the Republic of Moldova, will be presented in the evening of Saturday May 20 2023, and later published.

Program

Saturday, May 20, 2023

EVENING OF DEMOCRACY

KIDS FOR DEMOCRACY

CONSULTATIONS

Organizers & Partners

Organizers

UNFINISHED Democracy marks a milestone in the three-year-long Building Blocks for Democracy, launched by the Democracy & Culture Foundation. It acts as one of the five people-driven consultations that the DCF is running this year across the planet, after having first interrogated experts in 2022 on the same five key areas of democracy.

The results from this first-of-its-kind, citizen-driven project will consist of concrete, detailed policy solutions to issues linked to “the power of the people”. They will be presented at the 2023 Athens Democracy Forum along with results with the other four areas of focus: people, parties-money & influence, voting, information & disinformation, and the balance between legislative and executive power.

Eidos Foundation
The Democracy & Culture Foundation

Media partners

Digi24
Digi24.ro

HotNews

Main partners

Banca Transilvania
E.ON Energy Romania

Leroy și Asociații
Microsoft

Strategic partners

Institutul Aspen România
Atlas Intel

Berggruen Institute
Consiliul Rectorilor

Universitatea din București
Universitatea Politehnică din București

Confederația Patronală Concordia
Autonom Drive

With the support of

Ministry of Culture
Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Technical partners

Sessions
360 Revolution

Monitoring partner

Zelist Monitor