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S Q U A R E Project Funded under CERV programme with ID 101253193

🇪🇺 The “World Café” method aims to give the floor to as many people as possible, enabling them to participate and get in...
14/05/2026

🇪🇺 The “World Café” method aims to give the floor to as many people as possible, enabling them to participate and get involved.

💪🏻 Once divided into small groups, participants discuss a given issue. After 20-30 minutes, they move to another table, where they discuss another issue. Each workstation is led by one person, who facilitates the discussion.

🗣️ After each round, this person briefly summarises the
discussion points and the previous results. Once all the groups have completed their round, the moderators present the results of the discussions.

🇪🇺 Are you ready to discover our OPEN SPACE method?💪🏻In this case scenario, the participants themselves decide how the w...
13/05/2026

🇪🇺 Are you ready to discover our OPEN SPACE method?

💪🏻In this case scenario, the participants themselves decide how the workshop is going to work.
“Open Spaces” focuses on one main topic at a time, on which ideas are gathered and proposals drawn up.

🗣️ The various proposals are then brought together in the ‘Market Place’, where the participants choose the most interesting topics and discuss them in small groups. At the end, the results produced by the groups are debated in
plenary.

🇪🇺 Today, we want to introduce you to another SQUARE method: the “fishbowl”.A group discusses a particolari topic. After...
12/05/2026

🇪🇺 Today, we want to introduce you to another SQUARE method: the “fishbowl”.
A group discusses a particolari topic.
After a brief introduction, the group divides into a ‘for’sub-group and an ‘against’ sub-group.

💪🏻 One person from the whole group takes on the role of moderator and an inner and outer circle are formed. The inner circle includes the moderator and a few representatives from the two sub-groups. The remaining members of the group sit around the inner circle as observers. However, the people in the outer circle can swap roles with someone from their sub-group by replacing them in the inner circle.

🗣️ After about 30 minutes, the exchange of opinions is completed and evaluated by all the participants. The feedback is then recorded in a brief written statement.

🇪🇺 What are “Activating Interviews”? Through a consultation, the local municipality gets in touch with its citizens in t...
22/04/2026

🇪🇺 What are “Activating Interviews”? Through a consultation, the local municipality gets in touch with its citizens in the public space to find out more about their EU policy-related key issues. The consultation takes place
through a series of “interviews”, for exampledirect questions asked to participants during the event.

➡️ Participants are divided into two groups (interviewers and interviewees) and paired at random. The interviewer conducts the interview and then the roles are reversed. These interviews stimulate the interest of participants and foster a feeling of connection.

🇪🇺 Engaging citizens in meaningful dialogue is key to shaping inclusive policies. In SQUARE, four participatory methodol...
15/04/2026

🇪🇺 Engaging citizens in meaningful dialogue is key to shaping inclusive policies.
In SQUARE, four participatory methodologies make this possible!

➡️ Activating Interviews encourage direct exchanges between participants, fostering connection and uncovering key community perspectives.
➡️Fishbowl Discussions create a dynamic space for balanced debate, allowing participants to actively engage, observe, and reflect.
➡️ Open Space empowers individuals to lead conversations, generate ideas, and collaboratively develop proposals.
➡️ World Café promotes inclusive dialogue through rotating small-group discussions, ensuring diverse voices are heard.

🙌🏻Together, these approaches strengthen participation, encourage collaboration, and turn ideas into actionable outcomes.

💪🏻 One of the main innovation that the SQUARE project is bringing out are the “Portraits of Thoughts”!➡️ It is a transve...
14/04/2026

💪🏻 One of the main innovation that the SQUARE project is bringing out are the “Portraits of Thoughts”!

➡️ It is a transversal artistic methodology: this technique involves drawing two sets of drawings by each participant, before and after each debate, visualising the transformation of perspectives over the course of the event.
This creative layer enhances the emotional and cognitive dimension of EU citizenship, in line with findings from the European Commission’s 2023 publication Culture and Democracy: the evidence, which
demonstrates the strong link between cultural engagement, civic participation and democratic cohesion.

🇪🇺 WE ARE HERE! What is SQUARE? ‼️ It’s an EU project that seeks to promote and amplify a structured, inclusive, and te...
13/04/2026

🇪🇺 WE ARE HERE! What is SQUARE?

‼️ It’s an EU project that seeks to promote and amplify a structured, inclusive, and territorially rooted participation processes that bridge the gap between local communities and European institutions.
It rests on the conviction that cities and local communities are not only implementing agents of EU policies, but also ideal spaces for their co-creation—fully aligned
with the European Commission Recommendation on promoting the engagement and effective participation of citizens and civil society organisations in public policy-making processes, which is part of the Defence of Democracy package and calls on Member States to foster enabling environments for citizen engagement.

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