AURORA engages citizens in the energy transition through the creation of energy communities and citizen science hubs. The project brings together universities and a local council across Europe to demonstrate community-led renewable energy initiatives. Participants co-own renewable energy...

The Water Resilience Experiment aims to contribute to the European Commission's Water Resilience Strategy through the lens of design for policy and behavioural insights. The project focused on increasing cross-DG collaboration around the water topic and reducing the policy-implementation gap by...

This study aims to evaluate the perceptions of residents in Mardin, one of Turkey's most significant cultural tourism destinations, regarding community participation, social sustainability, and support for tourism. The study also examines whether social sustainability mediates the relationship...

We employ "doubly robust" event studies and matching methods to explore whether public participation in Constitution-making can curb political corruption moving forward. Measures of public participation are drawn from the Constitutionalism and Democracy Database (CDD) (Eisenstadt et al., 2015,...

The Local Development Councils (LDCs) feature a significant participatory governance function in local policy development, as local government units (LGUs) are mandated to constitute LDCs with members from civil society organizations (CSOs). While the Department of the Interior and Local...

For completing the energy transition, ordinary citizens have to be able to participate. This can be achieved with energy communities (ECs), which are getting implemented in EU member states. However, some of these legislations do not account for the possible challenges of implementing ECs. One...

Digitization technologies reshape the way people engage in social and business activities, transitioning events from in-person to virtual formats. However, existing evidence on the effects of digitization on participation remains fragmented and contradictory. The authors address this gap by...

This study supporting the ex-post evaluation of the Rights, Equality and Citizenship (REC) and the Europe for Citizens (EfC) programmes (2014-2020) and interim evaluation of the Citizens, Equality, Rights and Values (CERV) programme (2021-2027) assesses these programmes for the five core Better...

This paper investigates the role of gender bias in artificial intelligence-driven analyses of citizen participation, using data from the 2023 Latinobarómetro Survey. The paper proposes that gender bias-whether societal, data driven, or algorithmic-significantly affects civic engagement. Using...

Purpose - This paper explores how COVID-19 has impacted the shift from public participation by conventional means to e-participation. Specifically, we investigated to what extent COVID-19 has been a driver for electronic participation in community participatory budgeting, which is a kind of...

The conservation of the Chao Phraya River faces significant challenges, including environmental degradation, limited community participation, and insufficient integration of circular economy principles. This study aims to identify factors influencing pro-environmental behaviors and develop...

As participatory urban planning has gained traction recently, the consensus-building process among citizens has become crucial to its success. In particular, the level of understanding among citizens regarding new technologies or systems in the city, referred to as civic literacy in this study,...

Kommunen als wesentliche Akteure der Verkehrswende nutzen bei der Planung verstärkt konsultative Öffentlichkeitsbeteiligung. Bislang ist jedoch unklar, in welchem Ausmaß sie Beteiligungsverfahren bei der mobilitätsbezogenen Planung einsetzen und wie diese gestaltet werden. Der vorliegende...

Im Zuge der Erarbeitung der ersten Nationalen Sicherheitsstrategie Deutschlands führte das federführende Auswärtige Amt eine quantitativ und qualitativ beispiellose Beteiligungsserie durch. Im Sommer 2022 bot das Ministerium hierzu verschiedene Dialog- und Beteiligungsformate quer durch die...

This paper explores the vital contributions of indigenous knowledge and practices among home-based women entrepreneurs in Pakistan, emphasizing their role in fostering sustainability across generations. Through a qualitative approach, the study involved fifty-six semi-structured interviews with...

Women's political participation is essential for robust democratic governance. Despite significant historical progress, women around the world continue to be marginalized in politics and decision-making processes due to persistent structural, cultural, and institutional inequalities. In times of...

Achieving a citizen-centred and inclusive energy transition requires harnessing affordable and clean energy solutions while facilitating the active participation of consumers in line with the aims of the European Green Deal. The 15 EU-funded projects featured in this CORDIS Results Pack are...

Cities and regions are at the heart of the so-called ''deliberative wave'', with many of them developing initiatives aiming at engaging citizens in participatory and deliberative practices. Since March 2016, the CoR has been active in the Reflecting on Europe/Future of Europe campaign, providing...

This report provides an analysis of citizen engagement for knowledge valorisation practices, drawing on 60 selected case studies from 37 countries, across the EU and internationally. The report describes the benefits of participatory processes and explores key elements for successful...

Achieving a citizen-centred and inclusive energy transition requires harnessing affordable and clean energy solutions while facilitating the active participation of consumers in line with the aims of the European Green Deal. The 15 EU-funded projects featured in this CORDIS Results Pack are...

The focus of this study is citizens' views on communications by public institutions. It builds upon the previous work of the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission that examined the relationship between online technologies and political behaviour, as well as that of values and...

The redevelopment process of the Santiago Square in Cáceres was chosen as one of 30 exemplary practices embodying high-quality architectural principles in Europe, thanks to its participative decision making process. The process exemplifies the values promoted by the New European Bauhaus and...

The redevelopment process of the Santiago Square in Cáceres was chosen as one of 30 exemplary practices embodying high-quality architectural principles in Europe, thanks to its participative decision making process. The process exemplifies the values promoted by the New European Bauhaus and...

Purpose Nuclear energy is a contested topic, requiring trade-offs in energy independence, ethicality and uncertainty. Anthropogenic climate change complicates these decisions further, with nuclear energy competing with other low-carbon and sustainable energy sources. Decisions about nuclear...