---
title: FIDE — Federation for Innovation in Democracy
type: network
status: active
country: BE
website: https://fidemocracy.org
logo: /assets/org-logos/fide.webp
contact:
  checked: 2026-08-09
  email: europe@fidemocracy.org
  form: https://fidemocracy.org/contact
  source: https://fidemocracy.org
summary: An independent, nonpartisan federation advancing deliberative democratic
  culture across Europe and North America — training practitioners, designing citizens'
  assemblies for governments from municipal to international level, and evaluating
  process quality.
concepts:
- citizens-assembly
- deliberative-democracy
- sortition
location:
  latitude: 50.8503
  longitude: 4.3517
  name: Brussels, Belgium
  precision: city
events:
- date: '2026-09-14'
  title: Lead Facilitator Masterclass — Copenhagen, in partnership with We Do Democracy
  url: https://fidemocracy.org/training
  proof_level: medium
  url_checked: '2026-08-10'
  end_date: '2026-09-16'
  notable: false
  type: workshop
  location: Copenhagen, Denmark
  proof_warning: true
- date: '2026-11-18'
  title: 'FIDE Forum 2026: From Novel to Normal — making deliberation a democratic
    standard, Vienna'
  url: https://fidemocracy.org/europe-forum-2026-from-novel-to-normal
  quote: A conference for practitioners, public officials, political parties, NGOs,
    and funders to move this field from the margins to the mainstream. To build the
    infrastructure, lift the standards, and create the political will to make it permanent.
  proof_level: high
  url_checked: '2026-08-13'
  end_date: '2026-11-19'
  notable: true
  type: conference
  location: Vienna, Austria
  country: AT
activity:
  sitemap:
    checked: 2026-08-17
    date: 2026-08-07
    note: Page last modified (from sitemap)
    url: https://fidemocracy.org/sitemap.xml
last_checked: '2026-08-09'
---

FIDE — the Federation for Innovation in Democracy — is an independent network of democratic innovators working to embed deliberative processes in the machinery of governance. Its three pillars are training (capacity-building schools, masterclasses for lead facilitators), design (process architecture for governments at every level, from municipalities to international bodies), and evaluation (learning series, publications, quality standards).

FIDE has worked with the Council of Europe, CESE France, and city governments in Paris, Milan, Boulder, and Yukon, among others. Its 2026 Forum is being held in Vienna. The organisation is notable for operating at the infrastructure level: it does not run individual citizens' assemblies itself but builds the field's capacity to do so well, filling the gap between academic research and frontline practice.

## Links

- Website: [fidemocracy.org](https://fidemocracy.org)

## See also

- [Citizens' Assembly](../concepts/citizens-assembly.md)
- [Deliberative Democracy](../concepts/deliberative-democracy.md)
- [Sortition](../concepts/sortition.md)
- [G1000](g1000.md)
- [newDemocracy Foundation](newdemocracy.md)