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Submit your application by 12 January 2027 by completing the online form.

We recommend carefully reading the Terms of the Award and the Application Guidelines.

We also suggest familiarizing yourself with the Online Application Form before completing it.

The OIDP Technical Secretariat will validate that nominations comply with the Award Terms. Summaries of nominations will be translated and uploaded to the Platform.

A jury of experts, organised and divided according to the categories will evaluate the applications and choose the finalists for the award. These will be 50% of the applications received, with a maximum of 40 applications.

Anyone will be able to choose the experiences they consider meritorious of the award. In order to participate in the evaluation, each person must register on the platform and choose a minimum of 5 nominations for their vote to be valid.

The jury will meet to deliberate on the winning best practice, taking into account the citizen vote. The most voted proposal will receive a special mention in case the jury does not designate it as the winner.

The jury has already decided the winning experiences but they will not be made public until the Awards Ceremony in May in Córdoba

Kraków, Poland, September 21-23

2027 Award "Best Practice in Citizen Participation"

21th Edition

Open vote on the finalist proposals

About this process

Welcome to the process to select the best practices in local democracy 2027.

The "Best Practice in Citizen Participation" Award is an award given annually by the International Observatory on Participatory Democracy (OIDP) to recognise successful experiences led by local and regional governments in participatory and deliberative democracy, public participation and democratic innovation.

The aim of this Award is to recognise the experiences that local and regional governments implement in the field of participatory democracy and democratic innovation. In this way, the Award seeks to give visibility to these practices, facilitate exchange with other local and regional governments and showcase examples that can be adapted and replicated, fostering networking and peer-to-peer learning.

The evaluation of the candidatures for this 21st OIDP Award "Best Practice in Citizen Participation" will be carried out by two juries of experts and through an open public vote on this platform.

In a first phase, the first jury will evaluate the eligible applications and select up to 40 finalists. In the final phase, the second jury will evaluate the finalist applications in detail, alongside an open public vote.

This year, the evaluation and awarding of nominations will be organised into five categories:

  1. Democratic and Peaceful Communities

  2. Urban Management and Public Space

  3. Social Inclusion and Care

  4. Ecological Transition and Environment

  5. Civic Tech

Reference: oidp-PART-2026-10-67

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