Work Packages

WP1 – Data collection for inequalities’ impact analysis on political
participation and democratic quality

- To construct an initial information base to explain the impact of multiple inequalities on political participation, democratic quality and stability.

- Collating existing information on the various types of inequalities in both diachronic and spatial terms.

- To identify the various intersections between inequalities, participation and quality of democracy.

WP3 – “Fairville Labs” / Co-production Pilots

- Aims to pilot new and existing co-production methods and create a sustainable network of local communities

- Aims to collectively gather community knowledge, pilot different participatory methods and co-produce local policies and plans

WP5 – Scaling co-production practices in, to and beyond the city

- Aims to improve understanding of innovative co-production strategies to tackle the dual challenge of building urban democracy and people-oriented participation through scale;

- Aims to work comparatively across the diverse urban contexts comprising WP3;

- Aims to build a community of practice capable of scaling democratic practices in urban action at local and transnational level in a ‘Cities of Co-Production’ network

WP7 – Project management and coordination

- Aims to support the completion of the scientific objectives

- To monitor the production and sharing of progress reports and results of the project

WP2 – Theoretical Framework for the project - Local democracy,
participation and inequality

- Aims at clarifying the theoretical debates around the key concepts of the project: coproduction strategies to reduce inequalities and promote spatial and epistemic justice ; broadening citizenship, participation and democracy.

- Aims to produce shared vocabulary (or glossary) for the whole team, and a grid of analysis that allows a comparative approach

WP4 – Co-assessing co-production benefits to reduce inequalities

- Aims to engage all parties and stakeholders, including the most excluded from democratic life, in reflecting back on outputs and benefits of co-production processes.

WP6 – Communication, Dissemination and Exploitation

- Aims to develop and disseminate a set of outputs containing new co-produced knowledge about the impacts of and the means to reduce inequalities on democratic participation;

- To strengthen and enlarge the coalitions of actors in the pilot cases through a series of communication, dissemination and exploitation activities

- To include local partners in a process of co-production