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Here you'll find in-depth articles, interviews, reports, and methodologies related to our areas of focus (Future Culture, Democratic Innovation, Citizen Empowerment, Social and Solidarity Economy, and Cooperativism).
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The Migrant Dialogues are a first step in the elaboration of a Migrant Constitution that aims to give voice to and understand the model of society of a totally heterogeneous group of people who are traversed by the contradictions of a complex world, which must be navigated if we want to build a fairer and more egalitarian society.
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The School of Creativity and Democracy aims to improve citizen participation and political engagement in public policy and decision-making as well as to prepare young people for democratic renewal through alternative practices and cultural strategies. Combining online and face-to-face formats, the School's offer aims to shape a culture of continuous participation in Spain.
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At Goteo, we don’t just offer funding—we’re a team of people who support projects and guide them every step of the way. We facilitate partnerships and build a community around each campaign. We’re transparent and committed to the Social and Solidarity Economy and social transformation.
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The Forum on Deliberation, Creativity, and Democracy is part of the guidelines established for Barcelona’s designation as the European Capital of Democracy and addresses the need to create a space for reflection and outreach where projects related to citizens’ practices of political participation can be discussed and shared.
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The Pare Manel Foundation, founded in 2004, grew out of Father Manel Pousa Engroñat’s social and educational involvement in the Verdún-Les Roquetes neighborhoods of Barcelona. Today, it remains a point of reference for residents of the neighborhood where it operates; however, to maintain the quality of its services, the foundation decided to open up, listen, and rethink its approach in order to address new social challenges, ensure financial sustainability, and continue to generate a positive social impact in its community.
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"Universities of the Future" is an ongoing European Erasmus+ project focused on the transition to Industry 4.0 in the context of higher education institutions and industries across the continent.
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Focused on “communities in motion,” the 2017 Ideas Camp is calling for bold ideas to build societies with greater equality, sustainability, and solidarity, and a stronger sense of social justice. It’s about communities in motion, communities in transition, and also the power of individuals to “move” their communities forward through their progressive and creative ideas.
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The goal is to draw on Platoniq’s expertise in co-creation methodologies and crowdfunding processes to develop improvements to one of Decide Madrid’s specific tools: citizen proposals.
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We were commissioned to draft a white paper exploring what more participatory governance within Wikimedia might look like. The white paper aims to foster inclusive and accessible community participation based on the strategic direction of the Wikimedia Movement. It provides a historical overview, an ethical framework that prioritizes marginalized voices, an analysis of key issues and best practices, case studies, and recommendations for designing a participatory process. The goal is to support community participation and provide tools and models to promote it.
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"Share Your Story" is the result of a challenge presented to us in late 2015 by the Ministry of Culture, the National Library of Colombia, and the social enterprise Shift. Its goal was to influence the process of reconstructing a country’s collective memory as a methodology for building common ground through everyday life, amidst the armed conflict, in order to achieve peace (which was recently signed).
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The Common Knowledge Bank (BCC) is a pioneering project launched in Barcelona with the support of a broad group of professionals from various fields and occasional contributors who offer and exchange their knowledge. BCC aims to develop, create, and protect spaces for the free exchange and transmission of knowledge; to promote knowledge as a common good that enables continuous learning; and to identify more effective strategies that lead to new forms of communication, education, and civic engagement.
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The Democratic Party (PD) used this methodology to gather proposals from people close to the party and to the Italian center-left.