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Corporate guidance - Citizen engagement

The objective of this “Guidebook” is to establish a reference toolbox that identifies and categorises different formats of citizen engagement, from the fully-fledged citizens’ panels on pan-European level to other co-creation and exploratory formats.

  • Publication | 2025

This corporate guidance aims at helping services to choose the most relevant methods of citizen engagement for their policy file and to understand better how to implement them and which added value they get from each of the citizen engagement formats described here. In this Guidebook, citizen engagement is used in a sense that is close to the concept of citizen participation referring to all the various ways in which citizens are involved in democratic decision/ policymaking, with a specific focus on the efforts made by public institutions to enable citizens’ informed and autonomous participation and to hear their perspectives in between elections.

How to cite:

European Commission: Directorate-General for Communication, Corporate guidance – Citizen engagement, Publications Office of the European Union, 2025, https://data.europa.eu/doi/10.2775/9925817

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