Phoenix Project in Rouen: Create a network of Citizens’

In recent years, The Rouen metropolis and the Haute-Normandie area in general have experienced a consistent rise in temperature, accompanied by a notable decrease in available water. Furthermore, the municipality faces additional challenges stemming from its dependency on nuclear energy, lack of food sovereignty, high poverty rate, and extensive private vehicle usage, contributing to its status as the most polluted city in France.
Addressing these challenges requires leveraging the territory’s potential for renewable energy utilization and organic agriculture development through effective metropolitan planning. Moreover, conflicts in Rouen have emerged concerning deepening inequalities resulting from the ecological transition and resistance to necessary lifestyle changes.
Enhancing the inclusivity of participatory processes is crucial to prevent the ecological transition from exacerbating social inequality and to educate the population about the correlation between European Green Deal (EGD) and overall quality of life improvement.
To address these issues, this project proposes integrating multiple municipalities to establish a community of assemblies aimed at enhancing their adaptability to EGD challenges. This initiative comprises several stages, including drafting proposals on how various Rouen communities can collaborate to address these issues and expand participation, establishing diverse assemblies to develop and justify different proposals, and implementing an evaluation system for these proposals.