Democracy

Robert Bosch Stiftung

The Robert Bosch Stiftung is active in the areas of health, education, and global issues. Through its funding, it works for a just and sustainable future. The Foundation is rooted in the legacy of the entrepreneur and founder Robert Bosch. Today, around 170 people are employed at its Stuttgart and Berlin offices.

Institute for Democracy and Participation of the University of Wuppertal

The Institute for Democracy and Participation Research [IDPF] at the University of Wuppertal has existed since 1975, when it was established as the ‘Research Center for Citizen Participation’. Among other things, the aleatory – i.e. based on random selection – participation procedure of the planning cell was developed and systematized here. It gives citizens the […]

Nexus

Uses innovative and longstanding participatory methods to make the voice of citizens heard in local, national, and international policymaking processes.

Agency for Citizen Participation Baden-Wuerttemberg

The Baden-Württemberg Dialogic Citizen Participation Service Center is a service offered by the state to all authorities and administrations to support citizen participation. It has grown out of the staff unit of the State Councillor for Civil Society and Citizen Participation. It provides advice and support free of charge and unbureaucratically.

Missions Publiques

A mission driven consultancy aiming at improving the decision making process by designing and implementing new forms of dialogues between citizens, governments and experts.

Bertelsmann Stiftung

Fosters citizens’ participation through analysing existing forms of participation, developing new ones and directly applying participatory innovations.

Mehr Demokratie

Mehr Demokratie is the largest non-partisan organization promoting democracy in the EU and the biggest NGO for direct democracy worldwide. It is a founding member of Democracy International.

ifok

ifok organizes participation since more than 25 years – and has become one of Europe’s leading designer and implementer of randomly selected Citizen Assemblies at the regional, national and EU level.

es geht LOS

es geht LOS is an non-governmental organization, that initiates and carries out lot-based citizen participation on both local and federal level.