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The platform "Participation in Zurich's future" is the participation portal of the city of Zurich.

Get involved in dialogue, have an influence, help shape the city, become active. You can do all of this in the participation portal "Taking part in Zurich's future". For example in participation projects on planning, construction projects or special topics, in existing committees or in the form of voluntary work in the district or in the neighborhood. Join us!

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Process phases

Ideas and projects will be developed at Climathon Zurich 2022. The teams upload their projects to Decidim by November 6th.

The climate challenge set by the city of Zurich can also be tackled by further persons and teams outside of Climathon. By participating to the participation process, you will have the opportunity to receive feedback from city experts, gain visibility and potentially have the opportunity to present your project to a city committee or at one of our upcoming Klimaforum gathering.

City experts as well as Stakeholders are invited to give feedback and share their inputs to the teams and projects in order to support the further developement of the projects.

This phase enables the teams to incorporate the feedback from experts and to revise the project proposals. To do so, teams can directly adapt their proposals in the Klimaforum Online platform.

In this final phase, the 8-12 projects with most interactions are selected to present to city of Zurich committee. It will likely take place during the annual Klimaforum Event at the end of March 2023.

Empower citizens to be climate scientists

How might we enable citizens to contribute their knowledge and observations to fight climate change?

About this process

The aim of the challenge is to create a useful citizen science project concerning climate change in the city of Zürich. The challenge should activate Zürich's population to gain, create and distribute knowledge about the impacts of climate change on urban nature.

The project should be low-threshold, accessible and comprehensible to people with and without a scientific background. The participants should identify measurable and meaningful parameters in urban nature. In addition, they should consider not only data collection but also data analysis. The participants of this challenge can base themselves on existing citizen science projects and institutions. 

Pre-requisite: The citizen science teams have to be enthusiastic about science and observation of urban nature.


More information about citizen science projects:


Existing projects:

Reference: MSZ-PART-2022-10-62