State of implementation

Awareness-raising activities:

Within the Commission to ISDEFE and in relation to the elaboration of Guidelines for Evaluation of Participation in Plans and Programs It has proposed the design and implementation of two cycles of conferences and practical workshops (4), as well as the development of supporting material. For the first cycle on: “Citizen participation in public plans and programs”, has the collaboration of the University of Girona, headed by Q.B.

The 8 scheduled conferences have been held, (5) in 2022 and (3) in 2023 that are available using HazLab’s collaborative space. You can consult the program in the following link, about: “Citizen participation in public plans and programs”, has the collaboration of the University of Girona, headed by Q.B.

The 8 scheduled conferences have been held, (5) in 2022 and (3) in 2023 that are available using HazLab’s collaborative space. You can consult the program in the following link

• The First Conference Democracy: Crises of the present and alternatives of the future It was held on June 29 and was taught by Professor Brugué, within the events of Open Administration Week.
• The second lecture was given by Professor Josep Lluis Martí under the title Models of democracy and challenges for the future, on 22 September
• Professor Yanina Welp gave the third lecture on Direct participation and deliberation: beyond false oppositions and reductionism
• The Fourth Conference "Quality citizen participation as an instrument to fight against political disaffection" has been taught by Nacho Celaya. Coordinator of the Social Rights Area in Zaragoza City Council. November 17, 2022.
• The fifth conference was held by Pablo García, from the DG Citizen Participation. Government of Catalonia. "The Practice of Deliberative Democracy" on December 15, 2022.
• The Sixth Conference given by Cecilia Güemes, profesora de ciencia política de la Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM), llevaba por título "Trust and citizen participation; shortening distances, creating shared senses”. January 26, 2023.
• On February 8, 2023, the conference was held: "What citizenship for what democracy? The case of the Citizens’ Climate Assembly?", by Cristina Monge. Political analyst, researcher in governance for the ecological transition.
• The eighth conference was held on March 23, 2023 by J. Subirats, Minister of Universities and Professor Emeritus of Political Science and Administration of the Autonomous University of Barcelona on: “Public policies: between technocracy and democracy”.

In the month June 2021, the Ministry of Territorial Policy and Public Service did course Government opens principles, plans and initiatives to open up the administration en el que se abordaron temas relacionados con participación e innovación en los asuntos públicos.

Training activities:

EUPAN SUMMER SCHOOL 2023, 6, 7 and 8 November 2023. Celebrada en el Centre Ernest Lluch de la Universidad Internacional Menéndez Pelayo en Barcelona. This School will be held on November 6,7 and 8, 2023 and aims to continue the progress that was made in the editions of 2021 and 2022 in Germany and France.

Seminar “Citizen participation: Experiences of participation”, August 23rd to 25th, 2023. Menéndez Pelayo International University (UIMP), presentation "Open government from an international perspective: an agenda for change."

Provision of training on Co-creation laboratories in open government plans (June 2023), on the LV Selective Course of the Superior Corps of Civil Administrators of the State 2022, training has been provided.

n XXVII Selective Course of the Higher Corps of Information Systems and Technologies of the State Administration, has been imparted training on Co-creation laboratories in open government plans (14-24 February 2022) February 2022.

Published in By the National Institute of Public Administration the book “Open government, public innovation and citizen collaboration” de J. Ignacio Criado. December 9, 2021 The presentation of the Political and Constitutional Studies Center is held Open Government Guide.

In the LIV Selective Course of the Superior Corps of Civil Administrators of the State 2021, training has been provided on Co-creation laboratories in open government plans (November 30 and December 2, 2021).

Within the Training Plan of the Ministry of Territorial Policy, the course has been taught: Evaluation of Participation in Plans and Programs. From 18 to 22 October 2021 with a duration of 25 hours. The National Institute of Public Administration (INAP) published on July 19, 2021, the II Open Government Training Plan 2021-2024 en el que se incluyen actividades de formación en materia de participación pública.

For its part, in the collaborative space Hazlab A space for publications on citizen participation has been enabled with free access to all interested persons, without the need to be registered.

On the youtube channel of HazLab 67 masterclasses and informative videos on various successful experiences in citizen participation at the state, regional and local levels can be accessed.

Open Administration Cycle

In the Transparency Portal, you can access the Open Administration Cycle, a space for dissemination on Open Government and participation. In this space you can access podcasts and audios that are also available on the main audio platforms (Spotify, Spreaker e Ivoox) and on social media with the #Open Administration hastag.

The cycle of conferences has consisted of four conferences held by experts in the field from different fields, dealing with topics such as Digital citizen participation from civil society, the Technology and democracy, The use of social networks of the AGE in the promotion of citizen participation and the Affective democracy: beyond the digital platforms of participation.

Work has begun on the production of informative videos for awareness raising and training on citizen participation within the Commission to ISDEFE 2021-2023 for the design of innovation laboratories (initiative 3.4). This commission includes dissemination actions of this laboratory, and the preparation, in digital and paper format, of a Guide for citizen participation in plans and programs, as well as through electronic media and social networks, and the editing of videos that will serve to raise awareness and training about public participation. Commission of ISDEFE

On February 22, 2023, the CdPP held its second meeting (available in HazLab) to present the work developed, specifically three products, from each of the subcommunities (available in HazLab) have been presented:

First Aid Guide for a Participatory Process (What YES and NO Do) Elaborated by the Subcommunity of processes. Service Design for the HazLab Digital Innovation Lab Prototype of the subcommunity of laboratory. Features of the Participation Platform (survey results) La subcommunity of Platform sample the ones minimum requirements that must contain a platform designed for participation.

Regarding the elaboration of Guidelines for evaluation of participation in plans and programmes Once the DGGP’s needs were determined, as well as the search and selection of 3 possible suppliers who were specialists in the field, the University of Girona was hired for this assignment, headed by Professor Quim Brugué, and is currently in the process of final review and layout.

As for the Guide to evaluation of participation through electronic media and social networks, The work has been carried out by the team of the Complutense University of Madrid, with the coordination of the Professor of Constitutional Law Rafael Rubio, and Ana Ibarz and Raquel Valle of the Complutense Research Group ‘Technology and Democracy’ (I+DEM), being, to date, in the process of final review and layout.

In this context, in the year 2023 the cycle of conferences has been launched #Digital Engagement, which focuses on promoting, encouraging and implementing citizen participation using digital media and social networks, through basic guidelines, available tools and procedures.