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Les travaux et rapports scientifiques sont aujourd’hui nombreux à poser la question de l’alimentation de demain et à s’alarmer sur notre capacité à nourrir 11 milliards de personnes à l’horizon 2050 (Esnouf et al., 2011 ; Masson-Delmotte, 2020) tout en respectant la santé humaine et des écosystèmes. L’alimentation est responsable en France du quart de l’empreinte carbone. Elle est à la croisée de plusieurs enjeux, de santé et d’environnement, comme la préservation de la biodiversité, l
We launched an action to gather feedback and ideas from the citizens of Differdange. We sent them a postcard, which was featured in the monthly magazine of the city. Next to the postcard, the magazine also included an article dedicated to FUSILLI, which was a great opportunity to explain the project to the citizens of Differdange.
With the postcard, we want the citizens to send us their ideas. The citizens could return their answers online or bring the postcard to the cultural centre.
Il ruolo delle Comunità energetiche nello sviluppo sostenibile e l'esperienza del Comune di Modena, che ha Avviato il progetto per la creazione della prima Comunità Energetica virtuale dell’Emilia-Romagna
Cette nouvelle instance représentative devrait assurer une veille citoyenne et pourrait peser sur la politique de la ville en soumettant par exemple des vœux au Conseil de Paris.
Communities of practice can bring groups with different knowledge perspectives together and can strengthen their capacity to work and learn creatively together while harnessing the collective intelligence in the organisation to deliver integrated policy work and overcome silo mentalities. This award-winning, hands-on comprehensive toolbox helps you run and develop communities, networks and any other formal or informal structures that require collaboration and cooperation between various stakeholders who need to work together with a common purpose and vision. Based on rigorous scientific research and vast empirical experience within the European Commission on communities of practice, the playbook consists of step-by step guidance, good practices and interactive visual boards allowing you to co-create a roadmap to develop, engage and empower your community at every stage of its journey across eight success facets: vision, governance, leadership, convening, collaboration and cooperation, community management, user experience, measurement.
synAthina connects the services of the municipality of Athens with formal and informal civil society groups. It began during a moment of crisis and is still going strong. We spoke with the project’s initiator and former Vice Mayor of Athens, Amalia Zepou.
Public-civic cooperation has never been as important for European cities as today. Fading trust between public administrations and the civic society, rising authoritarianism and deteriorating services all make urban life more burdensome, especially for the most vulnerable social groups. In turn, sharing resources and responsibilities between municipalities and civil society actors has helped cities not only in generating enhanced participation in urban development issues but also in co-producing urban space and co-creating urban services.
The Power of Civic Ecosystems: How community spaces and their networks make our cities more cooperative, fair and resilient explores methods and practices of building stronger local civic ecosystems around community spaces. The book is based on the experiences of ACTive NGOs, an URBACT network that brought together the municipalities of Riga, Brighton and Hove, Dubrovnik, Espoo, Santa Pola and Siracusa for a 3-year learning process towards creating new platforms for public-civic cooperation.
Putting these experiences in a broader context, The Power of Civic Ecosystems also collects inspiring practices from other cities, ranging from municipal policies to citizen initiatives and professional methodologies, exploring mechanisms of stakeholder mapping and ecosystem-building, frameworks to access to public and private spaces, models of economic resilience, structures of participatory governance, and processes of capacity building.
French citizens’ cooperative EnerCit’if aims to install 14 solar power plants in Paris before the end of the year, a project that is being seen as an opportunity to boost citizen participation in the city’s energy transition.
Along with several design partners, Democratic Society took up the challenge of inspiring cities to experiment with new approaches to citizen participation as part of the EIT Climate-KIC Healthy, Clean Cities Deep Demonstrations project consortium.
Democratic Society also wanted to use this experience to develop a scalable model that could be experimented with in any city, anywhere.
The project brought together experts from financing, innovation, carbon accounting, and citizen participation to design and conduct strategic work programmes with cities.
Crucially, Democratic Society also employed Local Connectors in each city, skilled practitioners with expertise in policy and civic engagement, social innovation and design for sustainability, and locals in the cities they worked in.
They collaborated with city leaders and consortium design partners and joined the dots between the diverse actors involved. They worked towards a good transition that included government bodies, civil society organisations, grassroots groups, journalists, and businesses.
The locations for these programmes? The 14 European cities of Amsterdam, Edinburgh, Kraków, Križevci, Leuven, Madrid, Malmö, Maribor, Milano, Niš, Orléans, Sarajevo, Skopje and Vienna.
Une initiative embarrassante pour la Mairie de Paris. Le 10 mars dernier, la Ville a lancé une consultation auprès des habitants de la capitale, afin de leur soumettre plusieurs propositions concernant l'esthétique parisienne, mais voilà que deux internautes insatisfaits ont décidé de lancer un contre-questionnaire sur Twitter. Résultat : ils ont recueilli quatre fois plus d'avis que la mairie, rapporte Le Parisien.
L'urbanisme est un des sujets privilégiés de la seconde mandature d'Anne Hidalgo. Avec cette consultation, la ville entend rapidement définir de nouvelles règles esthétiques en matière de mobilier urbain, de choix des matériaux utilisés pour les aménagements ou encore de type de végétalisation.
greenApes was founded in 2012 with the mission to reinforce individual incentives for sustainable living via digital solutions.
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Adam Aron, Professor of Psychology at the University of California, San Diego writes on The Conversation website about the results from his recent books that explains three reasons why local action addressing climate change is more powerful than many people realise. 3 reasons local climate activism is more powerful than people realize Global warming has…
En juin, le Conseil économique social et environnemental (Cese) a annoncé la création d'une direction dédiée à la participation citoyenne. Entretien avec sa directrice, Marianne Escurat, qu
Citizen participation? Hell no! is a game created originally by Christophe Gouache for the Active Citizens’ URBACT action planning network. The game was created based on the long experience of Strategic Design Scenarios on citizen participation, forms of participatory approaches, social innovation and design for policy projects, initiatives, action-research processes, etc. SDS has worked for more than 10 years together with elected officials and civil servants, hearing a lot of comments, arguments, explanations from some people which justify their non-engagement towards more participatory processes…
Launching a new resource centre, the European Commission has set out the ambition that eventually all policymakers will involve citizens from the very start of any new policy.
The Competence Centre on Participatory and Deliberative Democracy, announced earlier this month, aims to build partnerships and provide guidance, tools and resources to strengthen citizen engagement. This will include supporting pilots of new approaches, and several are underway, including on biodiversity in cities and future mobility solutions. An online platform and physical space will enable policymakers to collaborate.
A global crowdsourcing platform for researchers, activists, practitioners, and anyone interested in public participation and democratic innovations.
A new framework will foster collaboration between schools and the Senate Department for Education, Youth and Family for the adoption of climate change projects and ideas
On 27 August, Berlin announced it will open the way for schoolchildren to participate in the fight against climate change. This will take the form of ‘climate agreements’ where students can submit their climate protection ideas and projects to an advisory board in the Senate Department of Education, Youth and Family. The Senate Department will then implement the projects.
Recent examples of eco-housing projects led by City Councils in the UK include Exeter social housing project which created 200 council homes built to meet the German “Passivhaus” energy efficiency standard and Norwich Council’s social housing scheme, which was awarded an architectural prize (the prestigious RIBA Stirling Prize) and similarly features buildings based on “passivhaus” norms.
On average, participants can earn around EUR 2 per kilometre
From Saturday 10 July, cyclists in Helsinki will be able to earn money doing what they love whilst simultaneously helping the municipality repair damaged streets. This was announced on 28 June when the City of Helsinki shared that all residents are invited to take part in a game to map out 300 kilometres of cycling paths in the capital.
Inspired by citizens’ assemblies in Ireland and France, Germany is doing the same. One hundred and sixty Germans, four major issues, one goal: for lawmakers to live up to their climate pledges. The Citizen Assembly is set to debate Germany’s environmental ambitions and make sure its voices are heard. Martin Kuebler discusses recent developments in an article on the Deutsche Welle website.
How can urban commons be financed? The Civic eState team explores social impact finance and financial investment with Eutropian, the European Investment Bank and the Trias Foundation
Despite the challenge posed by the pandemic for relational projects like Civic eState, the seven cities involved have not stopped working together – albeit digitally – and collaborating on shared horizons. Since the beginning of the lockdowns in various European countries, the Civic eState Network embarked on an exploration of possible financing instruments – like social outcome contracting and other social tools under the European Structural and Investment Funds(link is external) – to support the creation and management of urban commons in Covid and post-Covid times.
Le projet scientifique « BIenS COmmuns et TErritoire » (BISCOTE) porte sur le thème émergent des biens communs en tant que nouvelle approche de création et de gestion des ressources urbaines et territoriales.
Que sont ces « nouveaux » communs, en quoi consistent-ils concrètement, comment mobilisent-ils le territoire, ses ressources, ses acteurs et ses proximités ? Quelles implications ont-ils en termes d’évolution des systèmes d’acteurs, de coordination, de gouvernance et de cadre juridique ? Dessinent-ils les contours d’une nouvelle manière de faire territoire ? Enfin en termes d’action publique, comment s’invitent-ils dans la définition des orientations prises et des programmes d’action mis en œuvre ? Dans quelle mesure cela modifie-t-il les contours de ces politiques, la manière de les définir et de les mettre en œuvre ?
Autant de questions auxquelles cet ouvrage apporte des éléments de réponse en recensant plus de 140 initiatives locales et en en analysant une dizaine de manière approfondie. Ainsi, il permet un examen à la loupe d’un phénomène foisonnant et encore peu instruit.
"PartiMap" will actively involve citizens in the implementation, monitoring and evaluation of the EU cohesion policy through an online tool adapted to the local Hungarian context. The tool will enable geo-based collection of ideas, opinions, needs and feedback that can be used in all phases of programming. The promoters of the project will cooperate with local municipalities and stakeholders for EU funded projects connected to sustainable urban mobility and renewal of urban spaces.
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