Participatory Budget 2021

Un participatory budget It is an instrument that allows participatory democracy to be incorporated in the definition of certain expenditure items, so that the members of a community decide freely and directly the destination of a part of the budget.

To apply this practice to ESI budget for the year 2021, a procedure is established through which the university community of the ESI will first propose its project proposals to be financed, then these will be evaluated in order to detect those that could be redundant or not viable due to regulatory or technical issues and Finally, the accepted proposals will be voted on and chosen.

So the participation of the staff and students of the ESI can occur in two ways: presenting proposals and, later, voting on the set of proposals made.

As a pilot program, the amount of the participatory budget for the 2021 financial year amounts to 5.000 €. With this initiative, we hope to generate positive learning that will allow us to extend the economic scope in the coming years and improve the management of these participatory budgets.

Projects selected for voting

Projects selected by the Responsibility, Culture and Sport Commission Among the proposals submitted by the ESI university community:

Voting and calendar

At the end of the voting period, which has lasted from June 16 to 22, they have received 95 votes, the results of the vote being the following:

• Project 2. Model CPD (Data Processing Center) – 2,28 points
• Project 5. Reactivation of activities of the school's culture, sports and social student clubs – 2,27 points
• Project 3. ESI-Startup Entrepreneurship Conference – 2,15 points
• Project 1. Specialized training through Virtual Education Platforms – 2,13 points
• Project 4. Equality and diversity – 2,04 points

Given these results, project No. 2 is chosen.