PLDP - Luxembourg Platform for Participatory Democracy

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.