We co-create policies for a clean environment through the largest relevant crowdsourcing effort in Europe.

Do European citizens feel they are solution co-producers in air quality matters? The main objective of the CODE Europe (Co-Deciding Europe) project is to lay the groundwork for policy co-creation and encourage e-participation through e-democracy tools with air quality improvement as a central focus.

We co-create policies for a clean environment through the largest relevant crowdsourcing effort in Europe.

• Crowdsourcing campaign from the collection of citizens opinions through the platforms of:

  Problem Mapping: The citizens identify problems.

  Problems Solving: The citizens propose solutions to the “air quality” problems they’ve mapped in the first phase (Problem Mapping).

  Idea Selection: The citizens evaluate the solutions proposed in the 2nd Phase (Problems Solution) in order to highlight the most popular ideas and indicate the priorities to European policy-makers.

  Policy-making: Based on the previous phases, the citizens make policy proposals for air quality with the help of specialists in the field and the European Environment Agency, the project’s main partner.

• Digital Control Panel for social listening concerning air quality.
• e-Participation Evaluation Framework & Ethical Guidelines for Social Listening, aiming to answer two key questions:

  How can we define the success of an e-participation project?

  How can we be sure we’re doing online social listening in an ethical way?

• Dissemination and Awareness events for citizens in issues of e-participation.
• Policy recommendations in participation and air quality issues.