This two-year project started in January 2010 and is coordinated by the Malaga Council. It has three main guidelines: 1) To create political connections between 36 councils and municipalities with experiences of participatory budgeting processes in Spain, Uruguay and Dominican Republic; 2) To create a learning environment, also through a training course designed to 60 local technicians and politicians (including both presential classes and local classes); 3) to execute a research project to analyse the effects and the perceptions of PB participants in the 36 municipalities involved. CES (with a multidisciplinary team) is in charge of organizing some classes and mentoring 5 students. Giovanni Allegretti, a CES researcher, is also Director of the Scientific Board in charge of the field work.