Project description DEENESFRITPL Empowering urban communities to bridge democratic gap As EU cities adopt co-production arrangements, it is important for citizens to have a greater say in essential urban services and resources. Although some cities have made pioneering efforts, it is necessary to establish a comprehensive understanding of the challenges and best practices. However, the effective implementation of these arrangements often faces hurdles, hindering the potential for true community self-management and urban collective well-being. With the support of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions programme, the COMMONCITY project will analyse the policy models, challenges and democratising effects of the Constituent Assembly of the Commons in Barcelona, Bologna and Ghent. The findings will pave the way for informed decision-making and enhanced citizen participation across the EU. Show the project objective Hide the project objective Objective A new tendency is on the rise in EU urban policy-making: adopting Co-production Arrangements inspired by the paradigm of the Commons (CAC). Some pioneering cases stand out, such as the Urban Commons Regulation in Bologna (2014), the Commons Transition Plan in Ghent (2017) and the Citizen Assets Programme in Barcelona (2017). These cities have been joined by others that either have adopted similar arrangements or are currently considering adopting them. By and large, these arrangements aim to redistribute decision-making power to citizens over services and resources that are considered as essential for urban collective wellbeing (e.g. public buildings and spaces, energy and water utilities) by fostering community self-management. Preliminary and applied research on these arrangements has been carried out, mostly based on single case study analyses. However, scientific, in-depth and comparative knowledge on CAC is still scarce. By adopting an urban epistemology to the traditional state-centred political science field, COMMONCITY will produce key, useful and timely knowledge on CAC. It will comparatively analyse the i) policy models, ii) political, social and administrative challenges, iii) impact on urban democracy of recently adopted CAC in the three EU pioneering cities: Barcelona, Bologna and Ghent. By adopting a co-production-oriented approach to data collection and analysis that will foster citizen science, it will provide unique empirical data on the varieties, effective functioning and democratising effect of these arrangements. The results of COMMONCITY will contribute to the scientific debate in the broad urban study field and, specifically, in urban democracy, urban governance, urban policy-making and urban participation. It will also provide policy recommendations to various levels of government, in order to foster the adoption of CAC and improve the functioning and democratic impact of existing and under-adoption ones. Fields of science humanitiesphilosophy, ethics and religionphilosophyepistemologysocial sciencessociologygovernancesocial sciencespolitical sciencesgovernment systemsdemocracysocial sciencespolitical sciencespolitical policiescivil societysocial sciencessocial geographyurban studies Keywords New municipalism Coproduction Commons Urban democracy Urban governance Urban policy-making Urban participation Ghent Bologna Barcelona Programme(s) HORIZON.1.2 - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Main Programme Topic(s) HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01-01 - MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2022 Call for proposal HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01 See other projects for this call Funding Scheme HORIZON-TMA-MSCA-PF-EF - HORIZON TMA MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships Coordinator UNIVERSITEIT ANTWERPEN Net EU contribution € 191 760,00 Address PRINSSTRAAT 13 2000 Antwerpen Belgium See on map Region Vlaams Gewest Prov. Antwerpen Arr. Antwerpen Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Participation in EU R&I programmes Opens in new window HORIZON collaboration network Opens in new window Total cost No data Partners (1) Sort alphabetically Sort by Net EU contribution Expand all Collapse all FONDAZIONE PIETRO GIACOMO RUSCONI,VILLA GHIGI, PER L'INNOVAZIONE URBANA Italy Net EU contribution € 0,00 Address VIA GIUSEPPE PETRONI 9 40126 BOLOGNA See on map Region Nord-Est Emilia-Romagna Bologna Activity type Other Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Participation in EU R&I programmes Opens in new window HORIZON collaboration network Opens in new window Total cost No data
