SPEAK UP

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...

Across Europe, local governments are always trying to find better and more efficient ways to connect with their citizens and increase participation. Often, these methods materialise on the internet, in the form of articles, podcasts, newsletters, or social media posts. However, it’s often hard to ge...