Together we build caring and sustainable communities

Insights on community building, inclusive neighbourhood care and citizen participation

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...

Editor's choice Knowledge centre Public participation

Laura Geerts • October 19, 2021

Neighbourhood Scan: a neighbourhood analysis in collaboration with residents

The neighbourhood scan is a participatory measuring instrument that maps the social capital of a neighbourhood, in dialogue with its residents. This methodology is based on a few ...

Knowledge centre Public participation

Laura Geerts • November 15, 2020

Meet citizen engagement expert Dr Jonas De Meulenaere

This year, Hoplr has been working on the expansion of the knowledge centre. This is based on three pillars: neighbourhood communication, neighbourhood care and citizen engagement....

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...

Knowledge centre Public participation

Laura Geerts • February 5, 2020

Hoplr functionalities for citizen participation with the local community

Hoplr makes it easy for citizens to rely on each other and on the social capital of the local community. For example, they use Hoplr to share information, to socialise, to organis...

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...

Knowledge centre Public participation

Laura Geerts • March 23, 2019

Citizen participation: how physical encounters are key to more citizen engagement

Neighbourhood network Hoplr enables neighbourhood communication and citizen participation. But in order to achieve successful and representative citizen participation, two non-dig...

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...

Together we build caring and sustainable communities

Successful launch of digital participation platform in Gemeente Terneuzen

Neighbourhood Scan: a neighbourhood analysis in collaboration with residents

Meet citizen engagement expert Dr Jonas De Meulenaere

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

Hoplr functionalities for citizen participation with the local community

Municipality Sint-Katelijne-Waver concludes successful participation project

Citizen participation: how physical encounters are key to more citizen engagement

High engagement on first citizen participation project in Boechout

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