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Training course Presentation The first experiences of Participatory Budgeting (PB) have emerged twenty years ago. During the last two decades, PB has become an unprecedented world phenomenon, present in all Continents. Portugal is not an exception to this dynamics, with PB gaining an increasing attention from Portuguese society’s political actors, especially Local Governments, Universities and several Civil Society Organizations. This course intends to contribute to the qualification of Participatory Budgets in Portugal, approaching, in an integrated and sequential way, the critical dimensions of these processes, namely “design”, “management” and “evaluation”. To do so, we will count with the presence of national and foreign experts, mayors who are promoting PB processes and we will also resort to the first world-wide software application to support the above mentioned critical dimensions – “infoOP”. This software does not provide methodologies or attempts to standardize experiences. Its function is to provide support elements to the structuring of PB processes, based on demand and quality criteria of participation dynamics. The way it is designed turns it into an extremely useful tool for local governments, guaranteeing consistency and technologic strength, of great use to the technical and political coordination of this kind of processes. The course’s first module – “Design of Participatory Budgets” – will take place on June, with a set of contents to answer the most common questions related to this kind of processes: focus, territorial division to promote population’s participation, actors of participation, design of participation instruments, definition of the process’s technical and political coordination, definition of priorities, design of the participatory cycle, regulatory framework of PB, among other elements. This course is also designed in order to allow adapting the contents not only to the reality of Municipalities but also of Parishes in Portugal, also favouring the institutional cooperation between both administrative levels within the implementation of this kind of processes. The modules “Management” (October 14th and 15th) and “Evaluation” (November 4th and 5th) will be organized on order to address the needs which were diagnosed with the participants during the “Design” module. 09h00 09h45 – 10h15 11h15 – 12h15 12h15 – 14h30 14h30 – 18h15 10h00 – 11h00 11h00 – 11h15 11h15 – 12h45 12h45 – 13h00 Centre for Municipal Studies and Training (CEFA) Limited to the lecture hall’s capacity > Online Registration Tel. 216 012 848 CIUL – Centre for Urban Information of Lisbon |