
With the Vienna Climate Team, the City of Vienna wants to break new grounds in terms of participation, activation, governance and co-creation of citizens in local climate policy.
The project consists in an established participatory budgeting process for citizens to co-create climate protection and climate change adaptation projects at the district level for a liveable and climate-neutral city. Viennese citizens can contribute their ideas and concrete proposals for actions to fight the climate crisis. In the following steps, these ideas get further developed together with other citizens, experts from the City administration, local politicians and multipliers (as advocates of hard-to-reach and vulnerable target groups) into jointly supported project ideas. In a final step, the citizens decide themselves, as part of a randomly selected citizens jury, on the use of available budget funds to implement selected projects. The selected projects get implemented within two years by the City of Vienna.
The City of Vienna’s recently released publication in English language Vienna Climate Teams contains the findings from the pilot years of the project. These learnings were collected through several scientific evaluation efforts from universities, innovation agencies and the Austrian Society for Environment and Technology (ÖGUT), one of the LOCALISED partners.
This evaluation constitutes a basis for the creation of the LOCALISED Citizen Engager, a manual for citizen engagement in local climate policy created within LOCALISED and which will be made available this spring.

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