Lahti residents of all ages can submit their ideas to the City of Lahti during the ideation phase.
Ideas can be proposed for any of the areas. The proposed idea must be linked to one of the four themes and be realizable by the City. The City has the right to further develop and edit the ideas.
Two gift vouchers worth €50 for the City’s cultural services are drawn among those submitting an idea.
Before you submit your idea, please consider the following:
- Does your idea fall within the City organisation’s competence and purview?
For example, the City is not responsible for running cafés.
- Can your idea be implemented within the constraints of the participatory budget? The maximum budget per idea is EUR 40,000. For example, the budget is not big enough to build a skatepark (the estimated cost of a skatepark is EUR 500,000).
- Which area of the city does your idea relate to? Click here for a map showing the geographical division.
You can submit as many ideas as you wish, as long as you submit them one at a time. To submit more ideas, just restart the survey.
Experts from the City organisation will review all ideas submitted by members of the public to evaluate their feasibility. All ideas and the experts’ evaluations of their feasibility will be published on the ideation website by 17 April.
By submitting an idea, you give the City the right to revise it and take it further. Only ideas that satisfy the evaluation criteria will be considered.
All participants who leave their contact information will be entered into a prize draw for a chance to win one of two gift vouchers worth EUR 50 each to be spent on Lahti-based cultural activities. Please note that privacy laws prevent us from collecting contact information from children under the age of 13 years.