Citizens' Assembly 2025
The research project “Citizens' Assembly 2025” is investigating new complementary forms of democracy. To this end, a national Citizens' Assembly on the topic of “rising healthcare costs” was held between November 2024 and March 2025. One hundred randomly selected residents from across Switzerland took part.
To the results
What is a Citizens' Assembly?
In a citizens' assembly, people from the entire population come together to discuss an important political issue. To ensure that as many different people and opinions as possible are represented, the members of the citizens' assembly are selected at random.
The Citizens Assembly meets on a total of three weekends and at several online meetings. The aim is to tackle an important political challenge facing Switzerland and discuss possible solutions together.
What are the aims of this project?
The focus of interest is the question of the extent to which citizens' assemblies are suitable for conducting important social debates and counteracting the increasing hardening of political positions. The project aims to facilitate dialogue across language barriers and strengthen the cohesion of the population. The implementation of a citizens' assembly as part of this research project is based on scientific standards and best practices.