With the help of simple daily actions this project aims at building of more inclusive and healthy society.

This project opts for the neighborhood solidarity as the best formula in an increasingly individualistic and lonely world. With easy and everyday actions, they build a more inclusive and healthy society. Always from equality and diversity, without paternalism towards the elderly.

Grandes Vecinos unites older people with people of different ages in the neighborhood to make friends, support each other and enjoy activities in the neighborhood together.

People who join the project get to know other people from the neighborhood and create connections with them, they can help older people of the neighborhood, offer some activities or join some. The relatioships are safe , as the participants are verified beforehand. It is free of charge. Older people constitute the basis of the project and the mutual help and support networks are created around them.

The main objectives of the project are:

•          A healthier lifestyle for everyone by preventing loneliness in the elderly people today and in those who will turn elderly tomorrow.

•          Regenerate the community fabric of the neighborhood by promoting the participation of the elderly and neighborhood self-management.

•          Create affective bonds, meeting opportunities and relationships based on closeness and trust.

•          Expand the social network of the elderly by making them feel part of a community and actively participating in it.

Resource: https://www.grandesvecinos.org/es/#quienes

The Government of Balearic Island initiated a sophisticated participatory dynamic that lasted for 6 months. During this period, the problem was dealt in depth and various social agents were invited to debate – hotel executives, neighbourhood associations, the PAH (platform of those affected by mortgage), public authorities as well as residents and individual owners. The participation process took place in 4 phases:

·         The initial analysis ;
·         A perception survey/questionnaire;
·         An online debate;

·         Face-to-face workshops

The analysis and the survey served to outline and frame the problem, the online debate to receive feedback and proposals, and the workshops to work more in detail and deeply on the proposals and devise some real measures.  

According to the minister of the Department of Housing and Citizen Participation, the introduction of the face-to-face workshops in any participatory process is the key to provide quality proposals. Besides, the workshops have an educational function as they help the citizens and the administration to empathize with each other.
Basing on the proposals received online, there was made an analysis of the most mentioned problems. These topics were worked on during a public innovation workshop and finally the results of all the participative process were presented in the form of 3 main initiatives:
Ø  Encourage hoteliers to provide housing for seasonal workers;
Ø  Launch the ethical rental program;
Ø  Organise Co-housing days where alternatives to private housing will be explored.

Resource: http://transparencia.cime.es/Contingut.aspx?IdPub=66379

After the passage of the storm 'Gloria', Joan Massagué, a resident of Mataró, decided to go for a walk with his dog on the beach, as he usually does. "It was horrible, the beach was full of garbage, we had to do something," he says. Like him, dozens of people made a call to come to the beach on the weekend to collect waste. With the help of social networks, that weekend the coast has been filled with more than 400 of neighbours, including the city Mayor,   with gloves, bags and rakes, who have tried to remove the garbage from the Catalan coast. 

https://www.elperiodico.com/es/sociedad/20200125/una-marea-ciudadana-limpia-playas-devastadas-temporal-gloria-7821689

Through the Open Government Portal, the Madrid City Council wants to encourage the participation of citizens in the management of the city, involving them in the generation of new and viable ideas and proposals, in order to improve their quality of life. It is a firm commitment to a closer to citizens administration that will allow them to receive their proposals and also create direct channels of communication with the municipal government, helping to make the best decisions for the general interest.

The citizens can create proposals, vote, debate and have an access to a participatory budgeting. Besides, the site offers transparency that allows the citizens to know what is being done in the city, with what resources and for what purpose as well how much it costs.