Regione Toscana presented the IDEAL-EU project at the electronic Town Meeting that took place in Florence on April 25 of 2009.

The Town Meeting was planned by the Democracy Biennale that is organized in Turin, and shared by the Florence municipality.

Regione Toscana provided the know how and the venue for the event. The participants discussed about the idea of introducing a law on biological testament and on the provision that the law should  contain. The goal was to promote citizens active participation as they are seated around tables of ten people and helped in the debate by facilitators that moderate the discussion. The participants were able also to express their individual ideas through an electronic polling system on different options regarding the discussed subjects.

After the end of the day each participant was consigned a report that contained the results of the  televote.

The event was held in Florence with 100 participants and in Turin with 250 participants. The two venues where connected through a videoconference and streaming communication system. The deliberative democracy experiment concerned the theme of biological testament, a very relative and contemporary topic, as the Italian Parliament has been discussing about passing a  new law about this subject.