What would your dream home municipality be like? The inhabitants of Lahti get to develop their municipality through PB in 2020. Finnish municipalities have been quite active in taking up participatory budgeting “PB” where inhabitants get a chance to take part in dividing finances in their home municipality. A third...
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NEWS FROM LAHTI EmPaci PILOT: Over 700 ideas given by inhabitants in Lahti PB pilot!
The participatory budgeting “PB” pilot in the City of Lahti is well underway and the initial – idea creation – phase has been successfully conducted. The city received 713 ideas from inhabitants on how to improve their home municipality. As can be expected from a traditionally sports oriented city, the inhabitants...
Panel on “Critical perspectives on participatory budgeting” at the 2020 IRSPM Annual Conference
EmPaci project organizes panel, submit your abstract now! We would like to invite you to submit your abstract to our panel at the IRSPM Annual Conference 2020 in Tampere, Finland. The overarching theme of the conference is “Smart Public Service?”, in which our panel will address the topic “Critical perspectives in participatory budgeting”....
Participatory budgeting best practice from Bielsko-Biała
In the framework of our EmPaci Interreg Baltic Sea Reion project we would like to present the Bielsko-Biała Participatory Budget for 2021. We hope this could be good practice also for our Gdynia Municipality, during their PB in 2020. 31 January 2020 The President of the City of Bielsko-Biała...
EmPaci participatory budgeting news
The envelope for PB 2021 in Bielsko-Biała, our EmPaci Interreg Baltic Sea Region project partner is growing! The Mayor of Bielsko-Biała decided to allocate significantly more funds for the Participatory Budget of Bielsko-Biała in 2021. Currently, the participatory budget for 2021 amounts to PLN 10 million, of which PLN 1.6 million is...
