The format of a ‘G1000’ was developed by a small number of pioneers in the area of deliberative democracy, who managed to set up a large, country-wide project under this name in Belgium in 2011 (see here for a detailed description of the case). On 22th of March 2014, a...

The municipality of Enschede, Netherlands, organized a ‘motiemarkt’ (motion-market) on the 31st of October, 2011, one week before the city council was scheduled to discuss the budget for the 2012-1015 period. Citizens and civil society organizations presented ideas on the ‘market’, with every group having their own stall. Members of...

The Participatieraad (participation council) is a permanent institution that has been set up by the municipality of Haarlem, in the Netherlands, to give solicited and unsolicited advice to the municipal council. Its aim is to make sure that the opinions and interests of all citizens are heard and taken into...

Definition A charrette is a method of deliberation, through which participants from different subgroups of society reach a consensus position in a relatively short time. The charrette consists of three phases, the pre-charrette, charrette workshop and post-charrette stages. A charrette can be used with groups of varying sizes, from fifty...