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The Department of Citizenship of the City of Lorca organized the Module II of the First Conference on Public Participation in Local Area, in collaboration with the Vice President for University Extension, University of Murcia, to be held at the Garden during the days Ruano 29 and 30 January.

Rosa Medina, the Citizen Participation mayor has emphasized that "these meetings are a continuation of those held in May 2009 and aim to analyze the mechanisms for conducting effective public participation and knowledge of methods and models to evaluation of the processes developed to promote it. "

The City Council has also added "allow you to obtain free credits are aimed at college students, professionals and the general public interested in learning methodologies and experiences that enable participatory development plans, the different conceptions of civic participation and democracy at the local level The factors that explain and affect the participation and evaluation models. "

The inauguration of Module II of the First Conference on Public Participation in Local Area is scheduled for Friday 29, from 16:00 hours and will be made by the Mayor of Lorca, Francisco Jodar, the mayor of Citizen Participation, Rosa Medina and the Vice Chancellor of University Extension of the Region of Murcia, Guillermo Díaz Baños.

The speaker chosen for the development of the training program is Dr. Marc Parés i Franzi, professor, Department of Geography at the Autonomous University of Barcelona and Coordinator of the Research Group on Citizen Participation and Social Movements of the Institute of Government and Public Policy (IGOP) at the same university.

Marc Parés a PhD in Environmental Science and BA in Political Science and Administration, has worked as a researcher in prestigious universities and has to his credit various publications related to citizen participation and democratic quality.

Their contributions allowed to hear cases of good practices such as Local Agenda 21, tools designed to stimulate participation of the citizenry, the development of the municipalities to balance and continuous improvement of quality of life.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Lorca