Context

A breakdown of social mobility affects many social groups, keeping people excluded because of their place of birth or residence, their cultural capital and their social origins.

The EESC therefore created a temporary commission on the theme "New Generations: What Promises for What Future?" to produce an opinion on this subject. This commission worked in conjunction with a group of randomly selected citizens.

The draft opinion was submitted to a vote by the plenary assembly of the EESC on July 7, 2020, and received 180 votes in favour and 0 votes against (207 voters).

Missions

• Strategic advice in implementing the approach

• Design, organization and facilitation of the citizen group's working sessions, up to the production of the opinion

Innovative dimensions of the approach

• A "mirror" experiment between the temporary commission of the EESC and the citizens' group

• A random selection of citizens by random generation of telephone numbers

• Collective deliberation sessions in 4 sessions of 2.5 days each

• During the health crisis, remote and videoconference formats allowed participants to develop the opinion

• Experimenting with unexplored facilitation methods in the health field, such as the prospective workshop.