Make communities more livable

new forms of mobility, reorganization and Revitalizing the center or Usage concepts for vacant buildings or fallow land — municipalities are faced with the challenge of creating sustainable and managed areas with often little room for manoeuvre all supported solutions to find. Involving residents and business operators is a targeted approach, broad consensus to achieve. This is how you make your community more livable.

Steer the process through early involvement

By being able to already at the beginning to contribute ideas and solutions to the planned project, the planned project receives Attention in the community. Suggestions and various approaches are factual and calm put up for discussion. Early involvement in the project is important, only then can you Set a course and the Make full use of creative freedom.

Based on the topic mobility The advantage of early involvement is very good: Projects in this regard are often fraught with conflict because the needs of those affected have not been taken into account or have not been taken into account in good time.

On the other hand, right at the start of the project, the person concerned will Opportunity to engage Given, does this promote the acceptance of the project or reveals the complete rejection. And that's long before the community spends resources on it. Through early involvement, the municipality takes over active role of process designer. The risk of escalation, for example through the formation of conflicting initiatives or lengthy appeals, is effectively counteracted.

Transparency is key to success

An idea for a community project Being able to contribute does not mean that it will be implemented or that the source of ideas is involved in the decision-making process.
There are often wrong people here Expectations and misunderstandings before.
Therefore, you must provide ideas about all relevant frameworks inform from the start.

A Ideas competition to revitalize the city center will be successful if the requirements and conditions for participation are specifically communicated:

• Why are ideas being sought?
  
• What is the aim of the idea competition?
  
• What kind of ideas are you looking for?
  
• Which criteria are used to evaluate an idea?
  
• Who are the decision makers?
  
• Which periods must be considered?
  
• Who can take part?
  
• What recognition is there for the best ideas?

Ideas received during the competition visible to all are, serve as valuable Source of inspiration for further approaches. Participation is also promoted by the opportunity to agree with the ideas of others and to supplement them with your own input. This is how a comes about active and transparent process, which citizens accordingly motivates, yourself targeted to bring in.

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Topic-related and digital

Specific topics provide relevant ideas. Suggestions for locations of a high-performance photovoltaic system or where the cycle path network should be expanded provide clear feedback. Projects on complex subject areas, such as sustainability and climate protection, become understandable and accessible through specific questions. Municipalities take the reins thematically when they provident actively enable early involvement in upcoming projects.

A digital purpose-built platform is easy to use, motivates you to Participate, ensures transparency, relieves pressure through automation, allows moderation and control and is resource-saving.

Digital solutions in the municipal sector give interested parties the opportunity to create their own in a very simple way Ideas for specific challenges to be incorporated into the immediate living environment.

For municipalities, the benefits lie in active steering the topics addressed by the public, the receipt of a Atmospheric picture to a project and in the simple and targeted communication with citizens.