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