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Jennick Scheerlinck • August 26, 2025

Hoplr is renewed: new features since October 2025

Key points of this articleNew activity calendar:Users can now easily discover local events within a 5 km radius, with filters for distance, category, period, or neighborhood – s...

Case study Public participation

Jennick Scheerlinck • June 6, 2024

One in five households in the municipality of Terneuzen is active on the participation platform of Hoplr

In the Dutch province of Zeeland lies the municipality of Terneuzen, with over 55,000 residents, making it the largest municipality in Zeeland by population. Situated in a unique ...

Case study Neighbourhood Concierge

Jennick Scheerlinck •

Neighbourhood Concierge in Sint-Niklaas: referring help requests quick and efficient

The importance of quick and efficient referrals Based on the "fire and forget" principle, neighborhood workers, field workers, and local care organizations in Sint-Niklaas can ...

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Jennick Scheerlinck • March 13, 2024

From online connections to offline encounters in Weert and Nederweert

Punt Welzijn, a service-oriented welfare organization in Weert and Nederweert, works to improve livability in the neighborhoods and encourage residents to make the most of themsel...

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Jennick Scheerlinck • August 4, 2023

[Case study] Hoplr’s solution for Independent Living at the European Social Services Conference in Malmö

The 31st edition of the European Social Services Conference (ESSC) took place in Malmö, Sweden, from 14th to 16th June 2023, with a strong focus on "Advancing Social Services: Th...

Case study Public participation

Jennick Scheerlinck • April 5, 2023

Successful launch of digital participation platform in Gemeente Terneuzen

At the beginning of April, the Municipality of Terneuzen launched their brand new online participation platform doemee.terneuzen.nl. Citizens can now participate in projects of th...

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Jennick Scheerlinck • October 14, 2022

City of Luxembourg: Community development in the face of great diversity

70,59% of City of Luxembourg’s residents are non-native With expats from 158 different countries, the City of Luxembourg’s population is one of the most diverse in the enti...

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Laura Geerts • October 6, 2022

From crisis communication to volunteering: 38 municipalities called on the Hoplr neighbourhood

What has been happening in Ukraine affects everyone. Councils and communities everywhere are making massive efforts to provide relief. Many local councils were suddenly given new m...

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Laura Geerts • January 19, 2022

Look out Luxembourg: Trailblazer Commune of Strassen nails its launch of Hoplr

In the summer of 2021, the Department of Integration of Strassen approached us to launch our digital neighbourhood network. With Hoplr, Strassen aims to stimulate social cohesion w...

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Laura Geerts • October 15, 2021

Case study Municipality of Knokke-Heist: this is how services work together for varied neighbourhood communication via Hoplr (five steps)

Many different government departments deal with information that may be of value to a neighbourhood. From public health and community development to garbage collection and road wo...

Case study Neighbourhood Concierge

Laura Geerts • July 9, 2021

Case study: City of Deinze supports community development and caring neighbourhoods with Hoplr

About one year after the city-wide launch of Hoplr in Deinze, 3,772 households (22.6%) have registered. Uniquely, this government's Service Dashboard is managed by the Local Commu...

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Laura Geerts • May 25, 2021

Case study: Digital neighbourhood network Hoplr on the rise in Wallonia and Brussels

Hoplr's communities are located all over Flanders. More than 2,000 neighbourhoods in Flanders' five provinces house about half a million users. But in French-speaking Belgium too,...

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Laura Geerts • April 27, 2021

Case study: 5 ways the municipality of Waalwijk works on clean neighbourhoods with residents

The municipality of Waalwijk uses neighbourhood communication and citizen participation to create attractive neighbourhoods. Not only during the creation of its spatial planning. ...

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Laura Geerts •

Case study: municipality of Opwijk on handling the corona pressure

The Hoplr neighbourhoods of Opwijk (14,900 inhabitants) celebrated their first anniversary at the end of March 2021 (with an impressive conversion rate of 27%). Since then, every ...

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Laura Geerts • December 16, 2020

CASE STUDY: Waterloo community building pioneer of Wallonia with Hoplr

In 6 months time, more than 2,280 households (21%) registered for one of the 6 Hoplr neighbourhoods that were launched in Waterloo in early January 2020. Neighbours post an averag...

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Laura Geerts • November 4, 2020

Case study: municipality of Zele leads by example and gets the most out of Hoplr

The municipality of Zele (>20,000 inhabitants) aims to use Hoplr to its full potential. They're doing this by connecting a multitude of departments to the dashboard, involving ...

Case study Public participation

Laura Geerts • October 20, 2020

Case Study: city of Halle consults citizens at street level with verified survey

Last year, the city of Halle received multiple reports about the traffic situation in a number of streets in Lembeek. There were five possible solutions. To determine the best pos...

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Jennick Scheerlinck • June 21, 2020

The Hague: case study and details of a Hoplr community building pilot

In 6 months time, over 4,100 households (12%) have registered in the 10 neighbourhoods that were selected for the Hoplr pilot in The Hague. Neighbours post an average of 100 messa...

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Laura Geerts • June 2, 2020

Mechelen and Hoplr: one in three households is registered

Mechelen, such a great city. The authentic setting, filled with culture, friendly people, picturesque squares, … But what makes it such an amazing place to us? It was the very f...

Case study Neighbourhood Concierge

Laura Geerts • February 4, 2020

Trailblazer municipality Olen enhances local community feeling

Olen was one of the very first municipalities to get started with our Service Dashboard, back in 2017. Their goal was to connect citizens, and enhance the local community feeling....

Case study Public participation

Laura Geerts • September 4, 2019

Municipality Sint-Katelijne-Waver concludes successful participation project

Citizens Sint-Katelijne-Waver participate in multi-year plan 2020 - 2025 Inhabitants of Sint-Katelijne-Waver were asked nine questions on Hoplr in July 2019. The questions cove...

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Laura Geerts • May 2, 2019

City of Bruges on Hoplr: results of a successful pilot project

Hoplr made its debut in the Venice of the North at the end of 2018: a pilot project in collaboration with the City of Bruges. 14 neighbourhoods are activated - which accounts for ...

Case study Public participation

Laura Geerts • March 19, 2019

High engagement on first citizen participation project in Boechout

At the beginning of this year, the brand-new board of Boechout presented its new policy note to the city council. At least, a first version. The municipality gave its residents th...

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Laura Geerts • February 4, 2019

Citizen communication at the level of the neighbourhood with City of Antwerp’s project ‘Noorderlijn’

Imagine: you step outside your door on a regular Monday morning. You get into your car, head for work and... Darn. Detour. Roadworks happen all the time, but you have to admit, if...