CODE Europe is a project about empowering citizens to co-create policies with decision makers through Crowdsourcing. Crowdsourcing is a participatory democracy mechanism that takes advantage of the availability of technological solutions to solicit and analyse “the wisdom of the crowd”. We want to empower citizens by giving them the opportunity to learn from each other, collaborate and participate in the decision-making.

The CODE Europe project will be piloting a Crowdsourcing activity in five European countries on the subject of ‘air quality’. We have chosen this specific topic because of its transnational nature and the problems associated with it, as it has been estimated to be responsible for more than 400.000 premature deaths each year.

This project is implemented in partnership with the following organisations:

• Hungarian Academy of Science – Centre for Social Sciences, Hungary
• European Environmental Bureau (EEB), Belgium
• Citizens Foundation, Iceland
• Scify, Greece
• DAEM, Municipality of Athens, Greece
• OneSource, Portugal
• ManaBalss.lv, Latvia
• ProInfo, Bulgaria
• E-Governance Academy, Estonia
• InePA, Slovenia
• Centre for Public Policy Providus, Latvia

The Crowdsourcing on ‘air quality’ will run from 1 January 2022 to 31 December 2022 in 5 cities across Europe: Athens (Greece), Riga (Latvia), Tallinn (Estonia), Lisbon (Portugal), Burgas (Bulgaria) and Budapest (Hungary).

Project’s homepage: https://codecidingeurope.eu/

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