In October 2025, the PAR-CITY team working on Participatory Budgeting (UPI 3) met in Paris for a three-day workshop hosted by the Lyon team. Researchers from São Paulo, Lyon, New York and Warsaw gathered to discuss how participatory budgeting is being implemented and reinterpreted across cities, with the Brazilian team joining remotely.
The discussions built on previous meetings to advance a comparative framework for analysing participatory budgeting as a democratic innovation. The group explored how local contexts shape the design and outcomes of these processes, from citizen involvement and project selection to questions of institutionalisation and impact.
The workshop provided a lively and collaborative setting to connect research findings, strengthen coordination across teams and outline future joint publications within the PAR-CITY project.
They had the opportunity to hear Celina Su, member of UPI 3, presenting her latest book, Budget Justice (Princeton University Press) during a public conference which was discussed by two Marion Lang (Par City, Lyon team) and Thomas Chevallier (UC Louvain).