About

The platform of participatory democracy was created following the collaboration agreement concluded between the University of Luxembourg and the City of Dudelange in December 2020. It aims firstly to evaluate and strengthen the participatory projects of the City of Dudelange (as a pilot city) and secondly to take stock and promote participatory democracy projects in the whole country.

Missions

developing synergies

PLDP’s ambition is to establish a national and international network around the issues of participatory democracy in Luxembourg in order to create synergies with institutional and non-institutional actors interested in following or developing participatory projects.

collaboration with the city of dudelange

One of the central missions of the platform is to follow and analyse the existing participative projects – particularly the Biergerrot (Citizens’ Council) and the panel of citizens – and to support the upcoming projects, in particular the introduction of the participative budget planned in 2022.

dissemination of knowledge

The platform also aims to highlight participatory projects developed in Luxembourg at the institutional and civil society level. To this end, it collaborates with the ETICC asbl in the framework of the Open Government Partnership.

research projects

PLDP aims to initiate and follow up research projects that are developed at – or in collaboration with – the University of Luxembourg in different disciplines (in particular political science, geography, computer science).

promoting training

Training is also ensured around the course on democratic innovations, the organization of conferences, as well as the organization of the summer school “Participation and Democracy”, organized by the University of Luxembourg, the Free University of Brussels, Laval University and the Institute of Political Studies of Bordeaux.

The project is coordinated by Dr. Raphaël Kies and Ekaterina Chirkova from the Faculty of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences, University of Luxembourg

About

Missions

developing synergies

collaboration with the city of dudelange

dissemination of knowledge

research projects

promoting training

The project is coordinated by Dr. Raphaël Kies and Ekaterina Chirkova from the Faculty of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences, University of Luxembourg

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