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An assembly is a group of members of an organization who meet periodically to make decisions about a specific area or scope of the organization.
Assemblies hold meetings, some are private and some are open. If they are open, it is possible to participate in them (for example: attending if the capacity allows it, adding points to the agenda, or commenting on the proposals and decisions taken by this organ).
Examples: A general assembly (which meets once a year to define the organisation's main lines of action as well as its executive bodies by vote), an equality advisory council (which meets every two months to make proposals on how to improve gender relations in the organisation), an evaluation commission (which meets every month to monitor a process) or a guarantee body (which collects incidents, abuses or proposals to improve decision-making procedures) are all examples of assemblies.
Decidim Research Committee
Fostering the community of Decidim-related researchers
About this assembly
This committee sets out to organize the community of researchers whose work relates to and/or is relevant to Decidim. Potential activities include facilitating research sharing seminars, catalyzing collaborative work, organizing resource libraries, developing research codes of conduct, etc.
Researchers (academic and otherwise) have always played a central role in the Decidim community. As the project has continued to grow, it has attracted the attention of an increasingly (geographically, disciplinarily, methodologically) diverse set of researchers and scholars.
At Decidim Fest 2025, it was proposed that a Research Committee be formed for the purposes of organizing this growing community. In an initial meeting, participants proposed that activities of this Committee might include:
hosting regular virtual seminars through which individuals or teams could present their research and engage in discussion with research community members
updating and maintaining an open library of published research related to Decidim
'match-making' research collaborations
developing a Decidim researchers 'code of conduct'
and more...
To join the Research Committee, the only requirements are that you identify as a researcher and that you are an active member of the Decidim Association. (Joining the Association as a member is extremely simple -- you can find the details here.)
We conduct our work here in this Metadecidim Assembly (make a proposal! comment on others'!), converse in this Element room.