We strengthen participation and transparency for sustainable solutions of societal challenges.
The Humboldt-Viadrina Governance Platform has renewed the composition of its shareholders after over five years of existence. The shareholders Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zeul and Stephan Breidenbach gave up their shares in July 2020. Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zeul passed them on to Franziska Brantner, member of the German Bundestag; Stephan Breidenbach passed them
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Participation often takes place where citizens know they can immediately change something. Ada Colau postulates the ‘politics of proximity’ as strategic advantage of cities and sees it likewise as their duty to deliver on that promise. How does participation take place when spatial proximity in times of Covid-19
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Our executive director Daphne Büllesbach speaks out for a transparent participation of civil society organization within European politics: they bring expertise, methods, networks and campaign power in order to help sharpening the social-ecological transformation. You can read the column published by the Maecenata Foundation here.
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On International Refugee Day we launched the initiative From the Sea to the City together with other civil society organizations and cities. The initiative aiming to reshape European Migration Policy starting from the cities and municipalities and based on human rights and solidarity.
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