EVENTS from Other Institutions
Participatory Budgeting: A Useful Tool or Just a Fad?
June 24, 2021 - June 25, 2021
Venue: Bratislava, Slovakia
Organizer(s): Comenius University in Bratislava, Faculty of Arts
Office of the Slovak Government´s Plenipotentiary for Civil Society Development
Language: English / Slovak
Contact: daniel.klimovsky@uniba.sk
alexandra.hrabinova@minv.sk
An expected program of the event consists of three parts. The members of the project research team and the representatives of the project partner universities will meet during its first part (internal project meeting) on 24 June 2021. The second part of the event ("20 Years of Participatory Budgeting in Europe") will be used for a series of presentations offering experience with introduction and use of participatory budgeting in various European countries. The mentioned presentations will be delivered by a group of invited international guests on 24 June 2021, too. The third part of the event ("10 rokov participatívneho rozpočtovania na Slovensku") will offer a room for interactive exchange of both knowledge and experience among Slovak scholars, policy makers, politicians, local activists, etc. on 25 June 2021. Within this context the organizers of the event want to contribute to ongoing academic discourse in the field of participatory budgeting as well as to further diffusion of this tool in Slovakia.
The conference will take place either in person, virtually or as a combination of these possibilities. The organizers are carefully monitoring the development of the COVID-19 pandemic. Although there are promising signs regarding the feasibility of the June conference in person, the organizers will formulate their final decision in the beginning of May 2021.