ECI Day 2023: Upskilling citizens for a successful ECI with impact!

The 2023 edition of the EESC's annual European Citizens' Initiative (ECI) Day took place on 8 June. Participants in Brussels and online joined us to discuss how to upskill citizens for a successful ECI with impact.

As part of the European Year of Skills, ECI Day 2023 focused on the skills that organisers need to make their initiative a success. We also discussed ways to enhance the ECI tool itself and explored the (potential) role of the ECI tool in European Citizens' Panels, identified links to European Parliament elections and investigated the skills needed for young people to be actively and successfully involved in participatory democracy.