In the framework of its Democracy Week, the Swedish city of Falun is organising a Satellite event to the World Forum for Democracy on the occasion of the International Democracy Day on 15th September 2017.

Participants will exchange on how to make active citizenship and participatory democracy more of an everyday reality at the transnational and global level. The city of Falun, an active member of the CoE’s Participatory Democracy Incubator Programme, has invited fellow Incubator members to join the event entitled “Democracy City: meeting the populist challenge”. City representatives from Messina in Italy and Falun as well as from the UK based organisation “The Democratic Society” and the CoE will share their views on the topic.