SPEAK UP

A learning session in Skive Municipality (Denmark) put the spotlight on how citizen engagement and co-creation can be actively applied in a regulatory, authority-driven context, and gave employees new perspectives on how dialogue with citizens can strengthen both solutions and ownership. Jens Ulrich...

Participation isn’t a one-off project. It is altering how local government works. That’s why the City of Malmö (Sweden), one of the Speak Up partners, is developing a long-term approach to grow its capacity for participation. To achieve this, they organised three experimental learning sessions acros...

Sterk Hoogkerk, a participatory budgeting project, has been up and running for two years now and getting ready to start its third. This means that, for the past two years, the inhabitants of Hoogkerk (Netherlands) have been dividing €300.000 to local projects. The projects were ideas submitted, vote...