Periodic Reporting for period 1 - DEMOTEC (DEMOTEC - Democratising Territorial Cohesion: Experimenting with deliberative citizen engagement and participatory budgeting in European regional and urban policies)

In most European countries, trust in democratic institutions has declined – citizens are feeling left behind and disempowered to influence governments which they perceive to be disconnected from their needs and more concerned with powerful interest groups. One of the...