Co-Engage. Citizens as Co-Designer. Practices on how to engage citizens in community building.

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SWOT Strength

More people ready to engage in acting for the local community, once they see how easy it is to take up active citizenship.

Weakness

Insufficient promotion of our training. More people could join us, but they probably don’t know about this opportunity.

Opportunities

Establishing cooperation with other groups and institutions interested in quality projects being submitted for Participatory Budget voting.

Threats

No long-term plan and relying on the work of volunteers.

Which aspects are transferable? It is definitely possible to promote and adapt this action model to other areas. The key elements of this practice are: leveraging the experience of authors who have already submitted Participatory Budget projects, focusing on local conditions, flexibility, demonstrating a friendly and understanding approach towards the people who come to us

with their ideas for changing their local surroundings. What we discuss with them is how to design a project that responds to residents’ needs, not “how to complete an application form.” First, we reflect on local needs, next we search for solutions, and only then do we put that idea on paper.

What kind of change is created? It’s easy to observe the change of attitude in participants. Undoubtedly, most people who join the training want to do something positive for their local neighbourhood. Still, many of them come to us with “the very best idea for our district”. The training encourages them to reflect on the problem they want to solve and think about how they can find other people with whom they can cooperate. Another change we observe are improvements in the quality of projects prepared by workshop participants.

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Introduzione e progetto estivo

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Introdução e descrição do projecto

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Įvadas ir projekto aprašymas

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Wprowadzenie i podsumowanie projektu

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pages 138-140

Introduction et description du projet

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pages 132-134

Einführung und Projektübersicht

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pages 129-131

Citizens as Co-Implementer – Lab by School Raising Bologna 28.6. – 2.7.2021

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pages 110-115

Citizens as Co-Explorer Digital Lab Berlin, 22.3. -30.3.2021

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pages 105-109

Stiprūs kartu“/,,Strong together“

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pages 100-104

Associative Quarentine

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pages 97-99

Self-diagnosis by condominium managers

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pages 94-96

We can do this! Supporting education for refugee children

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pages 91-93

Laisvės piknikas/ Freedom picnic

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pages 87-90

Forumtheater Leipzig - Making Encounter happen

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pages 84-86

Brigate Volontarie per l’Emergenza

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pages 80-83

COVIDConversations

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pages 76-79

Capacita-te( Empower Yourself

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pages 73-75

Crisis Fashion

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pages 70-72

Lockdown documentary

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pages 62-63

Voicitys – Voices of Diversity

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pages 64-69

“Ene mene muh - und raus bist DU!”

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pages 59-61

Memory Office

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pages 56-58

Crafts Map of Warsaw

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pages 53-55

Citziens as Co-Implementer Co-creating public service pilots

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pages 50-52

XYZ Lab

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pages 45-49

Making It Real

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pages 42-44

Actionbound for remote participative walks

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pages 31-34

Designing projects for local change

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pages 35-37

Boxes for NGOs

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Community Mapping - a tool for participatory placemaking

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pages 24-27

Introduction and project summary

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Network Nest Meeting

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pages 38-41

Urban Innovation Foundation

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pages 20-23

How did we work?

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