Empowering Participatory Budgeting in the Baltic Sea Region (EmPaci)
| Title | Empowering Participatory Budgeting in the Baltic Sea Region |
| Abbreviation | EmPaci |
| Programme | Interreg Baltic Sea Region Programme 2014 - 2020 |
- University of Rostock (Germany) (lead partner)
- Town of Bützow (Germany)
- Pferdemarktquartier, registered non-profit association (Germany)
- University of Klaipėda (Lithuania)
- Rietavas Municipality Administration (Lithuania)
- Rietavas Tourism and Business Information Centre (Lithuania)
- “DELETED” (University of Rostock) (Germany)
- Vidzeme Planning Region (Latvia)
- Social innovation centre (Latvia)
- Regional Development Agency of Bielsko-Biała (Poland)
- Baltic Institute for Regional Affairs BISER (Poland)
- Telšiai District Municipality Administration (Lithuania)
- University of Tampere (Finland)
- Lahti University of Applied Sciences (Finland)
- Association of Finnish Local and Regional Authorities (Finland) (associate partner)
- Telsiai district local action group (Lithuania) (associate partner)
- Union of the Baltic Cities (Poland) (associate partner)
Project objectives
To get more municipalities involved and mobilize different types of citizens via building municipal capacities, transnational clusters and cooperation among municipalities and their citizens. The project aims to foster civic acceptance and to build social ties within municipalities, spread the idea of participatory budgeting and the project’s piloted good practices within the BSR.Activities
- Ensuring relevance for citizens: citizens' needs analysis and developing specific communication on participatory budgeting for different citizen groups (e.g. youth, the elderly, families).
- Fit of participatory budgeting for different municipalities: Development of general PB concepts and adjustment to specific circumstances through a series of two pilot participatory budgets in each partner municipality.
- Setting up capacities and disseminating the participatory budgeting idea: all participatory budgeting information, communication methods and materials will be collected and documented in an orgware system for use of participatory budgets later on and also for other municipalities.
- Training practitioners: setting up a training program for municipalities.
- Making participatory budgeting work: An IT reference architecture will be developed and tested.
Results
The main output is building capacities and knowledge as well as strengthening relations between municipalities and citizens by providing ready to use guidelines, training programs and tools to implement participatory budgeting. This creates the foundation of more BSR municipalities to realize participatory budgets and to foster citizen participation against the background of large spatial fragmentation of the BSR citizenry.Budget
Total: 1 878 640,20 EUR
- including ERDF co-financing: 1878 640,20 EUR
Vidzeme Planning Region: 110 900 EUR
- including ERDF co-financing: 94 265,00 EUR
Implementation period
01.01.2019. - 30.06.2021.
Contacts
Lienīte Priedāja-Klepere
Mob. tel.: +371 64219021
e-mail: lienite.priedaja@vidzeme.lv
