Innovade

INNOVADE is a civic participation app built with European municipalities and the people who live in them. This first release does one thing properly: it lets you put an idea in front of your municipality, and lets your neighbours back it. WHAT YOU CAN DO • Submit a proposal — describe an idea for your street, your neighbourhood or your municipality, and send it directly to the people who decide. • Choose a category — including Volunteering & Action, for hands-on things residents can organise themselves: a clean-up, a shared school run, help for a neighbour. • Say where it applies — pick your district, or point to a specific spot. • Support what you agree with — one reaction per proposal, so the count reflects people, not effort. • Join the conversation — comment on a proposal and reply to other residents. • Follow what happens — proposals carry a public status, and you can see it change. BUILT FOR YOUR MUNICIPALITY You take part in the municipality you belong to, and you see what people there are proposing. The app is available to residents of Geel (Belgium) and San Martin de la Vega (Spain). PRIVACY BY DESIGN INNOVADE is built to European data protection standards. We collect the minimum needed to run participation, we never sell data, and you can download or delete everything the app holds about you from inside the app. ACCESSIBILITY The app is designed to WCAG 2.1 AA: screen reader support, adjustable text size, contrast-aware colours, and clear, low-jargon language. Digital participation only counts if everyone can participate. ABOUT INNOVADE INNOVADE — Innovative Democracy through Digitalisation — is a research and innovation project developing open, trustworthy tools for civic participation across Europe, together with municipalities, universities and citizens. This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon Europe research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 101178306. Views and opinions expressed are those of the authors only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the granting authority.