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Listen to the children!
Children. The participative process for producing Barcelona's 2021-2030 Plan for Children, the framework for the planning and mainstreaming of the main policies that affect children and adolescents in the City of Barcelona, has been...
Participatory budgets move forward: shared economic decisions
Participatory Budgets. For the first time ever, Barcelona residents will decide what neighbourhood projects they want to invest €30 million in, after a year in which the participative process was halted due to the pandemic.
Neighbourhood Council: making decisions on everyday matters
Neighbourhood councils. Technical experts and people taking part in Sants-Montjuïc neighbourhood council meetings share their experiences and analyse the challenges faced by these citizen participation bodies.
Participatory process to adapt the Barcelona Science Plan to the pandemic
Participation. Members of the public and the city’s scientific and research communities will be able to put forward amendments and new input through a participatory process.
End of the citizen support stage for Ombudsperson candidacies
Participation. The process was conducted entirely using the municipal participation platform Decidim Barcelona.
Suport telemàtic i presencial a les candidatures per a la Sindicatura de Greuges de Barcelona
Sindicatura de Greuges. S’han habilitat cinc espais per complementar presencialment la recollida de suports.
Young people participate!
Participation process. Until now, the participation of young people was conducted through Barcelona’s Public Hearing for the City’s Children. Since 1994, this was the participation forum in which the city’s children and teenagers...
Decidim Fest 2020: rethinking citizen participation during states of emergency
Participation. This new edition will be totally online and will address the challenges at the crossroads between democracy and technology.
The Government of Catalonia, Barcelona City Council and the Free Software Association Decidim sign a collaboration agreement to promote democratic participation with free and open technologies
The aim is to promote participatory democracy and to develop and implement open, free and democratic digital infrastructures for participation.
Citizen initiatives, ideas that can become a reality
Participation. By collecting signatures of support, local residents recovered the popular name of a street and reclaimed the neighbourhood’s historical memory.