Rădăuțiul Civic Rădăuți “Rădăuțiul Civic started the collaboration with the local authorties by offereing their help and their expertise, in order to gain trust from…
Alba Iulia – Digital City Alba Iulia The city of Alb Iulia has two applications: e-alba iulia through which residents can receive notifications from the…
Local Community Barometer Alba Iulia Alba Iulia used the Local Community Barometer in order to survey the public’s views on the general development policies of…
BlocManagerNet Alba Iulia BlocManagerNet’s main objective was to create a channel for online interaction between apartment managers, the citizens of Alba Iulia and the City Hall,…
Com’ON Cluj Napoca Cluj Com’ON Cluj Napoca is a participatory process for that invites young people from Cluj to enroll group initiatives to improve the…
Innovation and Civic Imagination Center Cluj The centre is a place where local government representatives, citizens and specialists from economic and academic fields meet and…
Cetăţenii Conduc Iaşi CIVICA launched Cetăţenii Conduc (The Citizens are in Charge), together with Iaşi City Hall. The mechanism is as follows: calls for projects…
Ne Reprezintă Iaşi CIVICA made a special website that presents all councillors and displays the results of their activity, thus bringing about realization that the…
VaLyo Budapest VaLyó is an organization that aims for the better use of the Danube river in Budapest, bringing it closer to citizens by various…
Budapest Dialog Budapest Budapest Dialog is a participatory urban development site, where local citizens and stakeholders can share their projects and development plans. Based on…
Mindspace Budapest Mindspace is a not-for-profit organization focused on making the city more liveable. For the past 10 years, they have been actively organizing events…
RzeczJasna Ostróda They run RzeczJasna TV – televison based on work of activists and volunteers. NGO(s) involved: RzeczJasna Local government(s) involved: Ostróda #activecitizens #urbandevelopment Link…
Sustainable Development Laboratory (pol. Pracownia Zrównoważonego Rozwoju) Toruń It aims at supporting local government in strategic management based on sustainable development. It cooperates with the…
Stańczyk Foundation Cracow Foundation based in Cracow. It is aimed at promoting openness, transparency, and civic control in public life. Its mission is to support…
People for the City (pol. Ludzie dla Miasta) Gorzów Wielkopolski Association established in 2014 as a response for the project of cutting 27 trees in…
OSOM Gliwice Gliwice Thanks to its efforts, a register of municipal office contracts was introduced, a local initiative mechanism was developed, and the participatory budget…
Normal City Phenomenon Foundation (pol. Fundacja Normalne Miasto – Fenomen) Łódź Foundation was established in 2009. It is laid by people who have met online…
Better Gdańsk (pol. Lepszy Gdańsk) Gdańsk An urban movement based in Gdańsk. Their aim is to create the city more friendly and just for its…
Kalisz City Initiative (pol. Kaliska Inicjatywa Miejska) Kalisz Association which postulates transparency, social participation, and access to public information in the Kalisz local government. Activists…
Inicjatywa Dąbrowska Dąbrowa Górnicza Association which was created on the basis of the “Green Basin” Association (2001-2016). Since the very beginning it cooperates with local…
Freedom Foundation (pol. Fundacja Wolności) Lublin It is a watchdog organization. Their main purpose is to check, how the local government is spending public money–…
Fix Your City Foundation (pol. Napraw Sobie Miasto) Katowice Association was established in 2012 in Katowice. Since then, it grew and opened branch in Warsaw…
Foundation Dialogue Łomianki Łomianki Foundation in Warsaw’s satellite-city Łomianki which was created as a continuation of few local initiatives (it was preceded directly by Common…
City Action (pol. Akcja Miasto) Wrocław Association was established in 2014. Their first initiative was promotion of participatory budgeting in Wrocław. “City Action” focuses mostly…
Embassy of Community Foundation (pol. Ambasada Społeczności) Nowy Sącz, Kraków Embassy was established in 2013 in Nowy Sącz, although it hadn’t been formally registered until…
Citizens’ Assembly on Climate Crisis Warsaw Warsaw has taken action to start its own citizens’ assembly, as it has been done previously in other Polish…
Citizens’ City (pol. Miasto Obywatelskie) Lubartów Their mission is to introduce and coordinate dialogue between citizens and local government. They promote openness and transparency of…
Bona Fides Association Katowice This association has been active in building and supporting groups of inhabitants and local government since 14 years. They teach officials…
Akcja Konin Poland Initiative based in Konin that promotes inter alia open data. Activists collect documents and data from the local government, edit them, and…
Citizens’ Assembly on Climate Change Budapest In the past year in Hungary, volunteers and civil society organisations have launched an initiative to hold a Citizens…
The Ferencvaros Community Foundation Budapest In 2011, their goal with the reception of the community foundation methodology was to spread the culture of community fundraising…
Civil Roundtable Eger Eger, Hungary The CSO roundtable of Eger founded in 1994 is the oldest autonomous city level CSO network in Hungary, and a…
Office for Citizen Participation Józsefváros, Budapest The Office for Citizen Participation in Józsefváros (the 8th district of Budapest) was established after the 2019 local elections,…
Járókelő Hungary Hungarian street-fixing or maintenance application, which is the Hungarian version of the UK platform “Fix My Street”. The application enables passers-by to report…
Horizontal Study Conclusions and recommendations Although the COVID-19 pandemic has caused a collaboration meltdown in many of the case we investigated, CSOs provided flexible voluntary…
Horizontal Study Making representative claims The relationship between the political and the civil sphere is often described as a dichotomy between participation as a realm…
Horizontal Study Same questions, different contexts Local governments and civil society organizations doing advocacy work on local issues are unlikely friends. Having examined dozens of…
Horizontal Study Background of the study The relationship between local governments and civic organizations has always been a dynamic one, and it has witnessed several…