@ARTICLE{10.21494/ISTE.OP.2023.1009, 

TITLE={The student citizen convention: What is the impact on the horizontalization of the decision-making process and the food system of the University of Paris Est Créteil?}, 
  
AUTHOR={Emilie Frenkiel
, Hajar El Karmouni, }, 
	
JOURNAL={Technology and Innovation}, 
	
VOLUME={8}, 

NUMBER={Issue 4}, 
	
YEAR={2023}, 

URL={http://openscience.fr/The-student-citizen-convention-What-is-the-impact-on-the-horizontalization-of}, 
	
DOI={10.21494/ISTE.OP.2023.1009}, 
	
ISSN={2399-8571}, 
	
ABSTRACT={The student citizens’ convention (SCC) is a democratic experiment that aims to give students a voice on complex issues. The first SCC organized at Paris Est Créteil University focused on food, with a systemic approach integrating environmental, health, political, economic and social issues. Its mandate was to define a series of measures that would allow an alternative food system on campus. By participating in this decision-making process, students were taking part in a process of horizontalization to resolve an imperfectly satisfied need. In this article, we first describe the SCC as a participatory assembly for collective reflection and action (notably through the open deliberation process). We analyze the process of deliberation construction and the proposals for an alternative food system. Finally, we analyze the implementation of the horizontalization process as well as the conditions necessary for the SCC to succeed. We base our analysis on the proposals formulated over the course of the SCC, the exchanges on the online platform dedicated to citizen deliberation (Decidim), pre- and post-module questionnaires and semi-directive interviews to which the students responded.}}