http://www.participationinstitute.org The European Institute for Public Participation Wed, 12 May 2010 15:25:27 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en [caption id="attachment_264" align="alignleft" width="212" caption="Participation-Handbook"][/caption] The European Institute on Public Participation has published together with the Bertelsmann Foundation a systematic comparison of public participation models used in poilcy-making (pdf, in German). In particular the study focuses on large-scale deliberative models and how they are used by whom. These models include everything ... http://www.participationinstitute.org/2010/05/new-handbook-on-public-participation-models/ Information on the work of EIPP for the government of Vorarlberg, Austria, on Wisdom Councils and the official research project are available here (German only). On this project we collaborate with Kairos gGmbh, Austria. http://www.participationinstitute.org/2010/03/eipp-advises-the-government-of-vorarlberg-on-wisdom-councils/ Patrizia Nanz, co-founder of EIPP, was invited to take part in a panel discussion broadcast live on German television. Other participants were Horst Seehofer, prime minister of Bavaria, Hans-Werner Sinn, director of the Ifo institute for Economic Research, Matthias Horx, futurist and researcher and Daniel Dettling, author. The panel discussed ways ... http://www.participationinstitute.org/2010/01/patrizia-nanz-eipp-discusses-with-horst-seehofer/ Launched in spring 2009, the European Institute for Public Participation (EIPP) is a not-for-profit organisation whose mission is to promote better decision-making through public participation. Its key activities are: Research into what works when in terms of engaging the public in the decision-making processes which affect their lives and society and ... http://www.participationinstitute.org/2010/01/what-we-are-doing/ The Citizens’ Forum is a new form of participation developed by the Bertelsmann Foundation, the Ludwig-Erhard Foundation and the Heinz Nixdorf Foundation. It is a 6-8 week online deliberation embedded in two live events, one at the beginning of the process and the other one at the end. A new ... http://www.participationinstitute.org/2009/10/citizens-forum-europe/ The National Coalition for Dialogue & Deliberation has recently published, in a collaborative effort with other organisations, seven Core Principles for Public Participation. As you can see on the website of the PEP project they are very useful, not only for organisers of public participation, but also for evaluators, as ... http://www.participationinstitute.org/2009/06/eipp-endorses-the-ncdd-core-principles-for-public-participation/ +++ UPDATE (13.07.09): the original text of the Sole 24 Ore article has been added +++ This is one of the primary intentions of our work at the EIPP - making sure that citizens' voices are heard and listened to in policy-making. Crucial in that regard is, however, that the broader ... http://www.participationinstitute.org/2009/06/eipp-in-the-press-what-we-need-to-connect-citizens-to-europe/ We are happy to present you the full version of the EIPP report on the uses of public participation in Europe. The report is a continuously ongoing work in progress. We will in the future update the report or parts thereof in order to provide you with an ongoing analysis of ... http://www.participationinstitute.org/2009/06/eipp-report-on-public-participation/ We had a wonderful event at the Young Foundation this morning. An engaged and interested group of people from national and local government, NGOs, academic bodies and think tanks discussed a short version of a soon to be published report on the need for evaluation of participation. You can find copies ... http://www.participationinstitute.org/2009/04/after-the-event-at-the-young-foundation/ As polities become larger and more heterogeneous and their tasks more complex, the erosion of democratic vitality may seem inevitable. But perhaps the problem is not the size and heterogeneity of a polity nor the tasks political institutions face as such, but the way they are designed to address them. ... http://www.participationinstitute.org/2009/03/making-citizens-voices-heard-and-listened-to/