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Elections get under way for education councils for schools, districts and the city
Participation process. The elections were adjourned due to the pandemic. Voting will take place at the end of November and the new councils constituted before the year is out.
Young people decide!
Participatory process. The Fòrum Jove BCN is a participatory process based on interaction between 99 young people aged between 16 and 29, who will discuss the situation of young people in the city over the coming months.
“Decidim is becoming established as a digital standard for citizen participation”
Decidim. Carolina Romero is the president of the Decidim Association. She explains the difference between the Decidim platform, the Decidim Association and DecidimBCN. We discuss how the operation and service of each body works.
Thirtieth anniversary of the Advisory Council for the Elderly
Elderly people. The mural illustrates an ageing-friendly Barcelona.
Final voting stage for the city’s participatory budgets
Participation. From 10 to 20 June, the people of Barcelona will be able to decide how to invest 30 million euros of the municipal budget in the city’s neighbourhoods.
Voting process now open to choose the best project from candidates for the 8 March Award - Maria Aurèlia Capmany 2021
Award. 8 March Award 2021: Voting process for the public award now open.
Nearly 48,000 endorsements from citizens to make the participatory budgets a reality
Participation. City residents use the Decidim Barcelona platform to choose the 204 projects for the final round of voting in June.
Call for entries for the 13th Barcelona Municipal Immigration Council Award
Immigration. Projects in the city which stand out for promoting coexistence, equality and inclusion, and combatting forms of racism and hate speech endured by migrants and refugees, can be presented for the award. The deadline for...
David Bondia is the new Barcelona Ombudsman
Ombudsman. The professor in international law and chair of the Institute of Human Rights of Catalonia will take over from Maria Assumpció Vilà.
Commemorating 90 years of women’s suffrage
Feminism and women. A cycle of activities at El Born CCM provide a space for discussing women’s rights from 1931 through to the present day.