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This innovative Citizens' Assembly fosters trust and engagement among citizens and local stakeholders, building a more resilient and cohesive social and political landscape across the City of Ankara.

B-MINCOME effectively improves the well-being of families in socially excluded and deprived areas by combining minimum income guarantees with inclusion policies.

The Foodcard is an innovative solution which gives people the freedom and dignity to choose what food and necessities to buy, and from where.

The SeaProtectorOne robot is installed at the river mouth in Aarhus, where the river flows into the harbour, removing rubbish before it enters the sea.

Condominium E-Voting allows residents to communicate their housing issues in a quick, easy, and safe manner, enhancing their engagement in the decision-making process and improving the efficiency of services.

In 2019, DEC112 was launched to provide an alternative to speech-based emergency communication by implementing a text-based service.

The Testbed Programme is a practical way for schools and creators to test the latest educational technologies in a real learning environment.
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Sostre Cívic is a housing cooperative operating under the right-to-use model, which unites various projects to facilitate self-management in housing development for its members.

Helsingborg uses AI technology to address road maintenance by attaching cameras to garbage trucks.

Community Power brings low-income communities together with Cumberland Council to co-create new ways to work together.

Citizens can bring items to KOLO for reuse, that would have otherwise been thrown away, to prevent waste and support the circular economy.

This project uniquely integrates the concept of hackathons into public administration, fusing business concepts with public-sector needs to ensure citizen-centric, prosperous processes.

This project confronts the important problem of water leaks and losses in water supply networks using up-to-date smart systems.

The Company is a network of senior volunteers who provide digital mediation for individuals over 65 years of age.

Granting rights to the Mar Menor and its basin strengthens social democracy and opens the way to furthering ecological justice with a new generation of rights for nature, which complement human rights.

A mobile and digital emergency service will enable significant time savings in first aid by transferring diagnostics and initial treatment steps to the site of the emergency.

This Anti-Smog Campaign engages with local identity to transform attitudes on heat homes enabling a transition to cleaner energy sources and, consequently, cleaner air.

Digital-health solutions provide specialised perinatal-care services on remote islands communities to tackle the absence of healthcare units and professionals.

The Democracy Guide transparently maps who is elected and in office, and where, developing an action plan for a municipal open-data norm.

The DIPAS_navigator scales up public participation and paves the way for more transparency, inclusiveness, and accountability.

Vilnius is a School demonstrates how a technology-enabled platform can transform the educational process, making it more open, inclusive, and engaging.

A group of political scientists and journalists from Saxony, Germany, address the problem of disinformation by opposing it with a positive view on qualitative journalism for a healthy democracy.

TechUcation@school is a free, digital-training programme which support teachers to recognise the opportunities of digitalisation, for themselves and their students.

The Imagine! Belfast Festival of Ideas and Politics invites you to imagine new ideas on politics and culture and discuss contemporary political and societal issues.

This project sees the development of a platform which serves as a meeting point for property owners and individuals interested in using abandoned and under-utilised rural properties.

For one week in summer, children aged 6 to 13 year old come to the City Hall to study and work in their own Children's City, governed by them.

Big Bocs Bwyd empowers future generations to care about the food they eat, understand how it is produced, and learn about how they can live healthy lives.

Housing First Austria aims to end homelessness for more than 2,000 individuals and establish a system in Austria that will eradicate homelessness altogether.

Children learn about democracy through the game "Mayority", in which players take on the role of a Mayor.

This project marks a significant innovation by seamlessly blending drone technology into Pilsen's urban emergency framework.

This data portal is a central information point for the public, providing citizens with a high-quality catalogue of open data from the region.

This project offers interested people the opportunity to try out living and working in Görlitz, for free, with the aim to stabilise the number of inhabitants in the long term.

The Mini.Stadt participation strategy has led Lichtensteig to become an innovative, modern, and cosmopolitan place, in the middle of rural and mostly conservative surroundings.

This digital platform is unique, not only in Estonia but across the world, as it enables paperless court proceedings for inmates serving sentences in detention facilities.

The Schwammstein offers an efficient and innovative new solution to the market that regulates the discharge of rainwater into tree pits and green spaces.

Project HELIX supports food and drink businesses of all sizes in Wales, ensuring they have access to world-leading thinking and support.

Panda Labs Junior for Just Transition (PLJ4JT) engaged more than 750 high school and university students in the key coal regions of Bulgaria, North Macedonia, Montenegro, and Serbia.

The capito.digital app is an AI writing assistant which automatically translates highly complex language into three easy-to-understand language levels.

The participatory budget "Change It" (in Czech, Změň To) encourages young people aged 12 to 25 to submit their proposals to enhance the public space in Říčany.

This non-profit organisation creates rural jobs by increasing the number of olive trees in production.

By fostering connectivity and ensuring energy security, eFriends empowers individuals to access and participate in green-energy initiatives, particularly photovoltaic projects.

Youth Participatory Budgeting aims to support the development of ideas, engage students in selecting the most appropriate initiatives, and help young people learn how to make collective decisions in their school communities.

This transformative housing project in Lenartov shifts marginalised Roma families from poverty to self-sufficiency, sparking a profound cultural shift.

TrollWall is a pioneering force in digital discourse, utilising an advanced AI-driven network to solve the issue of online hate and toxic comments on social media platforms.

The Beatriz Galindo Centre incorporates the gender perspective into the municipal network of homeless care resources by addressing the specific needs of homeless women.

Fifty trainee chefs use surplus food from food stores to cook three-course meals for those in need, preventing food waste while feeding the hungry.

Kyiv's Digital Tourism and Cultural Hub provides online audio-guided 3D tours of monuments, buildings, and museums to both preserve and promote Ukraine's rich cultural heritage.

Easy Government invites people with disabilities and socially vulnerable people to redesign legal and administrative texts, using easy reading, to create simpler communication materials for all audiences.

Preschool Hoppet is a best-practice example of fossil-free, low-emission construction in Sweden.

In a complex process, carried out between 2019 and 2022, a widely accepted vision for Lublin in 2030 was agreed upon with a strategy for the development of Lublin.

The HERAmbiente project houses a composting and bio-stabilisation facility which actively recovers non-hazardous waste from the organic fraction of urban waste.

The Buzzwatch project determines the quantity of local food available for pollinators, enabling governments, nature managers, and beekeepers to adjust their policies and interventions.

This initiative stands out for its holistic approach to integrating sustainable mobility, climate resilience, and community-driven innovation as Cascais transitions to carbon neutrality.

Innovative consultation methods enable the Municipality to capture more residents’ opinions and make data-driven decisions.

The Municipality of Halandri's Food Loss and Waste Prevention Unit combines food-waste monitoring, awareness raising, and citizen-science education, with the optimisation of bio-waste using chemical-engineering processes.

The Next Generation Academy is a non-partisan political leadership incubator which aims to sustain the renewal of political candidates across all political parties and boost the quality of Portuguese democracy.

The School Participatory Budget is a democratic process in which selected educational institutions co-decide on the division of a budget allocated to them.

DECIDE MADRID allows citizens to make direct contributions via the platform, which are evaluated and incorporated into Madrid City Council's public policies.

Košice 2.0 tangibly improves city life by smartly integrating data, setting new standards in urban progress and showcasing the synergy of technology and community in the digital age.

The publicly-funded project "sKIn" aims to create a politically-supported blueprint for the approval of AI-supported medical devices from university research into real world care.

With the Participatory Children's and Youth Million, young people in Vienna submit their ideas and decide themselves which of their projects will be implemented with 1 million EUR.

The Life Mentorship Programme sees socially excluded people paired with mentors for a year, to help them reintegrate into normal life.

The Welsh Government's basic income pilot tests how a limited period of basic income payments helps support care leavers in Wales to transition from care into adulthood.

The Municipal Art Gallery of Chania implements an extensive digitisation programme of the exhibitions it organises.

La Noche es Joven (The Night is Young) is a programme initiated by the City Council of Santander that opens its facilities to the youth of the city at night, on weekends, to offer a series of different activities.

The SYMON intelligent monitoring system uses innovative technology to address the wellbeing of older citizens from three perspectives: health, loneliness, and leisure.

This project sees the conversion of an abandoned building into a multipurpose centre for elderly people, hosting various social innovation activities.

Real-time occupancy indicators help make using the metro more fluid, avoiding delays during rush hour, and makes the trip more pleasant and less stressful.

Madrid City Council launching the Madrid Innovation Lab to bring knowledge of new technologies to citizens and small companies and create a robust ecosystem around them.

Phosphoros Theatre builds bravery, creativity, and belonging for young refugees and asylum seekers, co-delivered by practitioners who have experienced forced migration.