📅 When: July 27–31, 2025
📍 Where: Fundação Casa de Rui Barbosa, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Participedia School 2025 in Rio de Janeiro will spotlight democratic innovations led by social movements, Indigenous peoples, and traditional communities across Latin America and its diaspora. This week-long, collaborative learning experience will explore community-led responses to democratic deficits, environmental injustice, authoritarianism, and colonial legacies.

Organized with a powerful network of academic institutions and civil society partners—including People Powered, International IDEA, Democracy International, and others—the program features panels, workshops, co-design labs, and a community day to connect participants directly with grassroots actors.

Why Attend?

• Learn from and with community leaders pioneering inclusive democratic practices.

• Participate in problem-based, co-design pedagogy with global scholars and practitioners.

• Engage with intersectional themes like Indigenous land rights, climate justice, and radical imagination.

• Build lasting networks across research, practice, and activism.

📌 No registration fee. Spots are limited to 50 in-person participants. Rolling admissions begin in January 2025.