Democratic innovation in Barcelona: From the Participatory budgets to the Barcelona Youth Forum

The participatory platform decidim.barcelona already has 100,000 registered people, and has already accumulated around fifty participation processes and a hundred participation bodies, articulating a very important part of Barcelona's citizen participation. One of the most important processes in recent times has been the participatory budgeting of Barcelona, a process in which more than 60,000 people have participated and the empowerment of many communities in the city promoting their projects. The Barcelona Youth Forum has also recently been set up, a citizen assembly of 99 young people chosen by lottery who for 4 months will be deliberating on the main problems and challenges of the young group in the city of Barcelona.