BalticSeaRegion, EmPaci, Interreg SouthBaltic, projects

PB practices from Germany! EmPaci project

Our project partner from city of Butzow shares their participatoru budgeting experience: There is a Role for Everyone in the PB Puzzle Today: … the proposal phase for the 1st Bützow participatory budget ended. For a municipality with just about 7 500 inhabitants the received 133 proposals are outstanding and a...

BalticSeaRegion, EmPaci, InterregBSR, projects

Best practice on participatory budgeting from Lithuania

NEWS FROM RIETAVAS, our EmPaci Interreg Baltic Sea Region project partner   On 18 of June 2020 EmPaci project partners Rietavas municipality, Rietavas Tourism and Business Information Centre, Klaipeda University organized the trainings to the civil servants of the Rietavas municipality. Project partners presented lectures on the participatory budgeting status quo,...

BalticSeaRegion, EmPaci, InterregBSR, projects

Best practice in participatory budgeting from Latvia – Vidzeme Region (EmPaci)

Vidzeme Planning Region continues to strengthen the citizen participation in the region  In March 2020, Vidzeme Planning Region announced a cultural project competition “Vidzeme culture program” implemented already for the thirteenth year in a row. It aims to promote the balanced development of cultural and art sectors and the preservation...

BalticSeaRegion, EmPaci, InterregBSR, projects

Participatory budgeting in Russia – best practice from EmPaci project

Please read some best practice information on participatory budgeting processes in Russia provided by our EmPaci Interreg Baltic Sea Region project partner from Russia.  In Russia the development of Participatory Budgeting (PB) started in 2007 with the emergence of the first practices of citizens' participation in decision making on budget...