Best Practice in Politics
We curate exemplary political work that successfully tackles today’s most pressing issues. This platform is a hub of tried and tested best practices in politics.
#GDAŃSKPOMAGA (#GDANSKHELPS)
A coordinated campaign organises assistance and improves cooperation between organisations, resident volunteers and the city’s services.
Academy of Culture
Coordinated pre-school activities compensate for a lack of kindergartens in a Commune of Poland with dispersed villages.
Active Café
The Active Café helps senior citizens and young people with intellectual disabilities to socially integrate, foster their skills, regain self-esteem, and find their way into a functioning society.
Active Citizen Academy
Active Citizen Academy in Kraków empowers residents with skills and tools to shape their local communities.
AI-Driven Innovation in Senior Care
Rybnik’s Municipal Social Welfare Home uses AI to personalise senior care and predict health crises for better outcomes.
Caring for Young Minds: Rybnik’s Mental Health Initiative
Facing a growing youth mental health crisis, Rybnik’s innovative support program is delivering accessible therapy—giving adolescents the support they need to heal, grow, and thrive.
Catch the Rain, Ostrów Wielkopolski
This rainwater collection project involves building storage reservoirs in kindergartens, educating preschoolers about the importance of rainwater and the water cycle, and encouraging effective management of rainwater on school properties.
Consultations for the Łodź 2030+ Strategy – Co-Created City
Residents are involved in the creation of the city’s development strategy, enabling the realisation of a shared vision for the future.
Covid-19 Support for Gdynia’s Entrepreneurs
A city administration offers all businesses legal, marketing, and business-counselling support for free, to mitigate the effects of the COVID-19 lockdown.
Creative Transformations
Small and medium-sized businesses in Lublin’s city centre are individually supported as the district is revived.
Education Ecological Center Hydropolis
Hydropolis in Wrocław transforms a historic underground water tank into an innovative center, promoting ecological awareness and sustainable water use to millions.
Entrepreneurial Kids
This project aims to promote a culture of entrepreneurship and innovation among 350 children aged 6-10 from the City of Lublin through specialist training, workshops, company visits, and a final gala, promoting the city’s economy among project participants.
First Home for Graduates – Building Futures in Białystok
The Apartment for a Graduate programme offers affordable housing to top graduates, helping them settle and work in Białystok.
Free Polish Lessons
Local volunteers in Wrocław help newcomers to learn Polish for free.
From Waste to Resource: Rybnik’s Circular Model
Rybnik’s circular economy project transforms food waste into social value, creating a comprehensive system that repurposes surplus food, supports vulnerable groups, and fosters sustainable consumption practices.
Gardens of Cracovians
Pockets of greenery transform forgotten patches of urban wasteland into community spaces for regeneration, social cohesion, nature, and culture.
Gdańsk Centre for Equal Treatment
“Safe places” in several locations in the city provide on-site support for people experiencing discrimination and foster awareness-raising among the citizens of Gdansk.
Gdansk Immigrant Integration Model – an innovation leading to more justice
A city policy in Gdańsk delivers equally accessible quality services for migrants, and offers a support network to help with integration.
Gdynia – Deaf-Friendly City
Gdynia’s comprehensive measures have made it one of the first deaf-friendly cities in Poland, ensuring that residents with special needs can fully participate in, and benefit from, city services.
Gdynia Dialogue Platform
The Gdynia Dialogue Platform centralises information on city projects and engagement opportunities in an open-source format, allowing residents to participate in consultations both in person and online.
Gdynia for Medics
Gdynia supports the medical staff facing the challenges presented by the COVID-19 pandemic, by providing a dedicated phone line to arrange accommodation, meals, transportation and psychological support.
Gdynia Rain Garden
Green urban spaces are designed to teach residents about rainwater retention through the creation of special gardens in residential and commercial properties.
Gdynia Storm Shelter
A complex system of financial, social, and cultural support services helps local residents in all social groups weather the “storm” of the coronavirus pandemic.
Gdynia’s Programme to Support Students, Teachers and Parents During the Pandemic
A comprehensive range of supportive actions respond to the needs of students, teachers and parents facing the rapidly changing conditions resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic.
Good Support – A System of Local Services
A coordinated network of local caregivers and service providers supports those most in need: the elderly, the disabled, the ill, and their families.
Green Budget
A citizen budget in Lublin is dedicated to the allocation of new green spaces throughout the city, developed and chosen by citizens.
Green Urban Bus Shelters: A Sustainable Revolution in Ostrów Wielkopolski
The Green Urban Bus Shelters project in Ostrów Wielkopolski replaces traditional bus stops with eco-friendly shelters featuring year-round vegetation that cools waiting areas, improves air quality, and supports the city’s broader goals for sustainable urban transport and climate resilience.
Innovative protective film to prevent coronavirus transmission
An innovative protective film that limits the transmission of microorganisms, including Coronavirus, is used in public spaces as part of the city’s response to the pandemic.
Integrated Ecological Education in Słupsk
Joint efforts by the City, companies, and NGOs offer coordinated ecological education to bring measurable benefits for citizens, in terms of pollution and costs.
Integrated Senior Policy Project
The needs of senior citizens in Opole, Poland, are addressed by providing a variety of new care services, such as delivering hot meals, setting up a residential complex, and the opening of an information and education centre.
Integrated System of Solidary Social Economy in Częstochowa
This project aims to provide better social services based on a system that allows residents to participate in its development on a case-by-case basis.
Introducing the Smart City: citizen engagement
The pioneer smart city of Rzeszów offers one-stop-shops for public services, such as car registrations and obtaining IDs, sets up a helpline for the same purpose, and introduces a participatory budget.
KATOresident
Katowice involves its citizens in the development of a green and safe city that has more trees, repairs defects immediately and offers well taken care of public spaces.
KidsLikeUs: Empowering NGOs & Public Institutions in Helping Children Overcome Migration Traumas
KidsLikeUs supports displaced and vulnerable children by creating inclusive Superhero Sensory Gardens that promote healing, emotional well-being, and social integration through nature-based engagement.
Krakow Community Gardens
Community urban gardening brings residents closer to nature and strengthens social ties in a large city.
Laboratory of Architecture 60+ (LAB 60+)
An innovative integrated design project facilitates social cohesion and intergenerational residential communities, to prepare for an ageing society.
Let’s Think Up Lublin Together: creating the participatory intelligence Lublin 2030 Strategy
In a complex process, carried out between 2019 and 2022, a widely accepted vision for Lublin in 2030 was agreed upon with a strategy for the development of Lublin.
Lighthouse Keepers and Area Hosts
Area Hosts and Lighthouse Keepers guide residents through the complex renovation project of the historic city centre and provide tailored support to help with displacement.
Local De-Radicalisation Network
A local multi-agency group uses a systemic approach to investigate and counter radicalisation among vulnerable groups, to recognise diversity, promote inclusion, and encourage dialogue and participation.
Lower Silesian Economic Activity Zone – S3 Jawor
A planned expressway gives a new boost to an economic activity zone in Poland, attracting new investors.
Malopolska Tele-Angel
A free security wristband connects elderly and disabled residents with a 24-hour emergency response team.
MOJAWARSZAWA (MYWARSAW)
Warsaw’s e-service platform simplifies and automates services, providing residents with a more convenient, cost-effective and higher quality means of interacting with their administration.
Municipal Flats for Senior Citizens in the Centre of Ostrów Wielkopolski
Accessible municipal housing in the city centre meets the needs of senior citizens, allowing them to vacate their former family residences, which have become oversized and impractical for them.
Municipal Programmes to Improve Citizens’ Quality of Life
Better community services are introduced in the city, which provide easier access to healthcare, such as dental check-ups in schools, and housing and mobility services for the elderly.
#GDAŃSKPOMAGA (#GDANSKHELPS)
A coordinated campaign organises assistance and improves cooperation between organisations, resident volunteers and the city’s services.
Academy of Culture
Coordinated pre-school activities compensate for a lack of kindergartens in a Commune of Poland with dispersed villages.
Active Café
The Active Café helps senior citizens and young people with intellectual disabilities to socially integrate, foster their skills, regain self-esteem, and find their way into a functioning society.
Active Citizen Academy
Active Citizen Academy in Kraków empowers residents with skills and tools to shape their local communities.
AI-Driven Innovation in Senior Care
Rybnik’s Municipal Social Welfare Home uses AI to personalise senior care and predict health crises for better outcomes.
Caring for Young Minds: Rybnik’s Mental Health Initiative
Facing a growing youth mental health crisis, Rybnik’s innovative support program is delivering accessible therapy—giving adolescents the support they need to heal, grow, and thrive.
Catch the Rain, Ostrów Wielkopolski
This rainwater collection project involves building storage reservoirs in kindergartens, educating preschoolers about the importance of rainwater and the water cycle, and encouraging effective management of rainwater on school properties.
Consultations for the Łodź 2030+ Strategy – Co-Created City
Residents are involved in the creation of the city’s development strategy, enabling the realisation of a shared vision for the future.
Covid-19 Support for Gdynia’s Entrepreneurs
A city administration offers all businesses legal, marketing, and business-counselling support for free, to mitigate the effects of the COVID-19 lockdown.
Creative Transformations
Small and medium-sized businesses in Lublin’s city centre are individually supported as the district is revived.
Education Ecological Center Hydropolis
Hydropolis in Wrocław transforms a historic underground water tank into an innovative center, promoting ecological awareness and sustainable water use to millions.
Entrepreneurial Kids
This project aims to promote a culture of entrepreneurship and innovation among 350 children aged 6-10 from the City of Lublin through specialist training, workshops, company visits, and a final gala, promoting the city’s economy among project participants.
The Winners
of the Innovation in Politics Awards 2024
B-MINCOME: guaranteed minimum income & active social policies in deprived urban areas
B-MINCOME effectively improves the well-being of families in socially excluded and deprived areas by combining minimum income guarantees with inclusion policies.
SeaProtectorOne, Aarhus
The SeaProtectorOne robot is installed at the river mouth in Aarhus, where the river flows into the harbour, removing rubbish before it enters the sea.
Condominium E-Voting – Successful E-Democracy
Condominium E-Voting allows residents to communicate their housing issues in a quick, easy, and safe manner, enhancing their engagement in the decision-making process and improving the efficiency of services.
