Organizing and running a training workshop on citizen participation takes its time. The following structure follows the CIPAST training workshop which was held in Naples, June 2007. You will find links to the presentations and other materials to be used for each topic. When adapting the blueprint to your needs please take into account the time frame given in the specific case studies.
Workshop 1st day
Introduction day to citizen participation
9:30 – 10:00
Welcome and Introduction
10:00 – 12:00
What is citizen participation?
Introductory presentation (Design/ ‘Workshop introduction’ )
Metaplan and facilitation of plenary (Design/Workshop blueprint/ ‘The Metaplan Methodology’ )
- Metaplan exercise, about 60 min
- Rapporteurs in plenary and general discussion, about 45 min
12:00 – 13:00
The basic principles of participation and how to manage them
(Design/Citizen’s participation: ‘Some basic principles’ and how to manage them)
Lunch
14:30 – 15:30
Methodology Poster Session
(What else? / ‘CIPAST Procida Workshop posters’ )
`Overview´, ‘Consensus conference’, ‘Scenario workshops’, ‘Citizen juries’, ‘Future search’, Focus groups’ and ‘Interactive Technology Assessment’.
15:30 – 17:00
Planning citizen participation
(Design / ‘How to choose a method’ )
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How to choose a method
Basic conditions
Exercise: Planning citizen participation
17:15 – 18:00
How to achieve impact?
(Design / ‘How to achieve Impact’ )
Dinner
Workshop 2nd day
Working on Case Studies
9:00 – 9.30
General introduction to Case Studies (plenary)
(Practice / ‘The Case Study Training Methodology’ )
Split into groups (max 30 participants per case study)
- see ID Cards
see materials for case studies (Practice / ‘Case Studies’ )
9.30 – 11:30
Case Studies (in parallel)
- Introduction to the case studies
- Work on the case studies in small groups (5-6 participants each)
- Case definition, choice of participative procedure
12.00 – 13:30
Case Studies (in parallel)
- Justification of adopted method, draft of the participatory rationale, organisation, press release, ...
13:30 – 14:30
Lunch
14.30 – 17:30
Case Studies (in parallel)
- Report to the group
18.00 – 19:30
Optional: Panel discussion on “Sharing experiences - Lessons learned from …)
Dinner
Workshop 3rd day
Reports, Evaluation and Closure
9:00 – 10:30
Case Studies (plenary)
Reports by participants to the plenary
11:00 – 12:30
Evaluation (Design / ‘Evaluation’ )
12:30 – 13:00
Networking and Experts (What else? / ‘Case Study experts’ )
13:00
Closure and Farewell