MISSIONS PUBLIQUES

Their core work

Missions Publiques is a Paris-based consultancy specializing in citizen engagement, deliberative democracy, and participatory processes at European scale. They design and facilitate large-scale public consultations, debates, and co-creation spaces that bring citizens into policy and research decision-making. Their core contribution to EU projects is methodological — they bring structured frameworks for collective intelligence, multi-lingual deliberation, and inclusive participation across diverse populations. They bridge the gap between expert-driven research and public acceptance by ensuring that citizens have a meaningful voice in topics from energy transition to digital transformation.

What they specialise in

How they've shifted over time

In 2015-2018, Missions Publiques focused on digital participation tools and broad citizen consultation — EUth built digital/mobile youth engagement platforms, while CIMULACT ran multi-actor consultations on EU research priorities. From 2020 onward, their work shifted decisively toward deliberative democracy, energy citizenship, and socio-political themes like polarization, European identity, and inclusion. The recent projects show deeper methodological sophistication (mixed methods, transdisciplinarity) and apply participation to harder policy domains like decarbonization and workforce transformation.

Moving from general digital participation toward structured deliberative democracy applied to energy transition and socio-political challenges — expect future work at the intersection of climate policy and democratic engagement.

How they like to work

Missions Publiques always participates as a partner, never as coordinator — they bring specialist methodology to consortia led by others. With 110 unique partners across 38 countries, they operate in large, diverse consortia rather than tight recurring teams. This pattern suggests they are valued as a go-to engagement specialist that different consortia invite for their participatory expertise, making them easy to onboard and experienced at working across institutional cultures.

Exceptionally broad network for an SME: 110 unique partners across 38 countries, indicating they work in large pan-European consortia with minimal geographic bias. Their reach spans well beyond Western Europe into a truly continental footprint.

What sets them apart

Missions Publiques occupies a rare niche as a private-sector specialist in large-scale democratic participation — most citizen engagement expertise in EU projects sits within universities or public bodies. Their commercial model means they bring professional-grade facilitation and consultation design, not academic research on participation. For consortium builders, they are the partner you bring when your project needs genuine public input that will hold up to scrutiny, not token consultation.

Highlights from their portfolio

• EUCOMMEET
  Their largest project (EUR 373K) and most methodologically ambitious — multi-stage, multi-level, multi-mode, multi-lingual deliberative democracy spaces across Europe.
• ENCLUDE
  Represents their strategic move into energy transition, combining citizen engagement with decarbonization — a high-demand intersection for future EU funding.
• CIMULACT
  Directly shaped Horizon 2020 research priorities through citizen consultation, demonstrating impact on EU policy itself.