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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.
The children’s creations submitted to the Estimat diari [Dear Diary] website during lockdown will become teaching materials for working on emotions
Education. All the materials received are being used to create a teaching portfolio in accordance with professional education criteria that will be available to primary schools next academic year.
The city’s youth present their proposals to improve equality in Barcelona
Education. This year’s public audience was about educating in inequality.