Send us your ideas next week – city of Oulu’s Participatory Budgeting begins again on January 13,2025

The city of Oulu’s Participatory Budgeting calls for new ideas next week to support the wellbeing and comfort of Oulu’s citizens.

Citizens may offer their ideas between January 13–26 on how the city will spend 240 000 €. After the ideation phase, all the ideas that fit the Participatory Budgeting criteria and are implementable will be further developed into voting proposals with the city’s specialists and different operators.

Later in the spring, the citizens of Oulu get to decide by vote which proposals the city will implement. The city will implement the proposals that receive the most votes and fit into the budget of 240 000 €.

The goal of Participatory Budgeting is to increase the influencing and participation opportunities of Oulu’s citizens as well as to increase dialogue between the city and its citizens. Participatory Budgeting is funded by the state’s distributed welfare and health promotion fund.