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»Inheritance and the common good«: New trialogue series seeks understanding on inheritance tax reform

From Blockade to Understanding: The Berlin Governance Platform will bring business, politics and civil society together from October 2026 to develop viable corridors for reforming the inheritance tax.

Four new local authorities are launching local development advisory boards

The heat transition is more than a technical task. In four new municipalities, we are piloting with Municipal Development Advisory Boards how different stakeholders can jointly develop viable paths for transformation.

Shaping the municipal heating transition in a participatory way

From planning to implementation: For over a year, we support selected municipalities in the development of practical, widely supported strategies for the local heating transition.

Publication by the Friedrich Ebert Foundation: Organised interests and the common good

Gesine Schwan, Laura Gerards Iglesias and Tara Ella Grimm publish an article by the Friedrich Ebert Foundation on multi-stakeholder participation as an innovation in plural democracy.

Municipal development councils are a "lighthouse project" for mediation

Our local development councils were awarded this year's Socrates Prize by the Centre for Mediation.

From diversity of interests to basic consensus: four further processes successfully completed

Four municipalities, four unanimous resolutions - the conclusion of another round of municipal development councils shows how local participation can succeed.

Relocation via matching: How do Re:Match partner municipalities rate the data-supported matching of asylum seekers and cities?

Re:Match partner municipalities report on their experiences and assessments of the data-supported matching of people seeking protection and cities.

Network meeting: Now more than ever! Municipalities as nuclei of democracy

We invite you: Come and talk to us and our partners from the municipal development councils - 20 February, 7.00 pm
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