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Winning proposals include renovating empty municipal flats and renting them to homeless people, setting up a leisure and cultural centre for autistic people, cultivating small forests, and building new fountains and public toilets
The Budapest metropolitan council will implement 15 projects worth a total of one billion forints (EUR 2.9 m) under its participatory budgeting scheme. The winning proposals were announced at a press conference on Tuesday.
Budapest’s first participatory budget, described by Mayor Gergely Karácsony as an “important experiment in direct democracy” was launched in October 2020. Of the nearly 700 submitted ideas, 53 were put to the vote, and 15 will be implemented on the basis of 13,344 votes received by 31 July.
The ideas competed in three categories according to their purpose and theme:
The Mayor's Office will start preparing the implementation of the 15 winning projects in the autumn.
During the press conference, Deputy Mayor Gábor Kerpel-Fronius said that the participants in the brainstorming and voting procedures can be proud of themselves, especially in this pandemic period. He emphasised that via the participatory budget, the seeds of a new political culture have been sawn, sending a clear message to all Budapest residents that their opinions, proposals and criticism will no longer leave the city leaders indifferent.
The second cycle of the participation budget will begin on 1 October, Kerpel-Fronius announced, adding that he hoped for even greater resident involvement in planning the future of the city. Earlier, the deputy mayor had assured that, in preparing the participation budget, no differentiation has been made between opposition and pro-government districts of the capital.
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The innovative project received funding from the participatory budget in Lille, France
Abandoned fishing gear is one of the most dangerous threats to the marine environment, but also to divers and underwater heritage
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Abandoned fishing gear is one of the most dangerous threats to the marine environment, but also to divers and underwater heritage
Trenitalia has announced that it wants to reduce the phenomenon of domestic animals being left behind alone while their owners go on holidays
The property, together with others that have been confiscated, will be converted for social welfare uses
Trenitalia has announced that it wants to reduce the phenomenon of domestic animals being left behind alone while their owners go on holidays
The property, together with others that have been confiscated, will be converted for social welfare uses
The city also led awareness-raising actions to show the impressionable youths how circularity is created first-hand
These will be spread across 11 EU countries and will serve to support the EU Missions
The European Commission has accepted to develop the idea
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