Glossary

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Check out the Toolbox of Experimental Participatory Methods glossary of 100 key concepts!

Active citizenship

Assembly

Call for proposals

Canvassing

Circoscrizioni

Citizen participation methods

Citizen summit

Citizens‘ cafè 

Citizens’ assembly

Citizens’ council

Citizens’ jury

City Planning

Civic-political activism

Climate assembly

Co-creation

Co-design

Co-planning

Co-Presidency

Collaboration pact

Collaborative

Communication strategies

Community forums

Consultation

Consultative referendum

Context of participation

Decidim

Deliberation phase

Deliberative committees

Deliberative democracy

Democracy festival

Democratic innovation

Democratic Nation

Digital tools

Direct democracy

Dynamic facilitation method

Empowerment

Failure

Feasibility evaluation

Financial aspects

Focus group study

Focus group study

Gamification

Implementation phase

Informal participation

Information session

Initiator

Knowledge broker

Komîna

Leafleting

Location-based participation

Lottery system

Marginalised groups

Motivation

Multilevel impact

Multilingual deliberative process

Neighbourhood architect

Neighbourhood committee

Non-binding

One-off processes

Open call

Open dialogue

Open-data

Outcome and lessons learned

Participation plan

Participatory budgeting

Participatory democracy

Participatory governance

Participatory planning

Partnership

Planning cell

Plenary session

Preparatory phase

Principle of subsidiarity

Process

Proposal submission

Public discussion

Public hearing

Public-private partnership

Random selection

Recruitment and inclusiveness

Recruitment of participants

Recruitment strategies

Referendum

Representation

Representative democracy

Residential meetings

Responder group

Selection methodology

Sit-outs

Social Contract

Social innovation

Sortition

Targeted outreach initiatives

Town hall meeting

Transferability

Vote 

Voting phase

World cafè

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 959420.