SPEAK UP

In the municipality of Groningen, a citizen assembly decides over the new waste policy. 120 carefully selected participants engage in dialogue regarding waste reduction, and formulate their recommendations towards the city council. A citizen assembly is one of the highest forms of citizen engagement...

We spoke with Berber Snippe, who recently completed an internship with the Speak Up project at the municipality of Groningen. Her work focused on researching how food councils function, and how Groningen could found one. In this interview, we discuss her main findings and the transnationality of suc...

On May 20th, Speak Up hosted a webinar on Hoogkerk’s (Netherlands) innovative participatory budgeting method. Through community dialogues and voting, this initiative enables citizens to have a say on some of the village’s budgeting expenses, directly responding to their needs. This event featured Ma...