Students know practices of citizen participation from theoretical and empirical perspective, especially in two European societies, Finland and Poland. They are familiar with broad European framework putting emphasis on citizen participation, governance networks and active citizenship. They know key concepts for theorizing citizen participation and identify differences and similarities between citizen participation practices in different contexts.

Finnish students should make 2 + 3 ETCS (lectures AND online exercises);

Exchange students can make 2 or 5 ETCS (only lectures OR lectures and online exercises) 

Outline of the course:

1) Theoretical and political framework for conseptualizing citizen participation and empirical examples from Finland and Poland. 

Lectures + lecture diary (2 ECTS):

Mon 28.10.2013  

Lecture 1 (10-12): Overview on citizen participation practices and theories (Liisa Häikiö).Place: Linna 5014

Lecture 2 (13-15): EU policies for citizen participation: A framework for national and local practices (Katarzyna Radzik-Maruszak). Place: Linna 4026

Wed 30.10.2013  

Lecture 3 (10-12): Citizen participation in Finland: Civil society and local governance (Liisa Häikiö). Place: Linna 4026

Lecture 4 (13-15) Citizen participation in Poland (Katarzyna Radzik-Maruszak). Place: Linna 4026

Fri 1.11.2013  

Lecture 5 (10-12) Conclusion and discussion (Liisa Häikiö & Katarzyna Radzik-Maruszak). Place: Linna 5014

Online exercises (3 ECTS):

2) Case descriptions about citizen participation. Students will select a citizen participation practice and make a short description of it to online learning site, Moodle. Cases can be based on different data sets: Internet sites, interviews, newspapers, official documents etc. Case descriptions will be done in pairs and reported in English. Max. 5 pages. Papers in the Moodle Mon 25.11.

3) Essay on citizen participation. Students construct a theoretical frame for analysing citizen participation practices. This framework will be used to write a comparative essay about citizen participation practices. For the comparison students will select two to three case descriptions from the Moodle. Case descriptions will be done in pairs and reported in English, or Finnish but all essays should include an abstract in English. Max. 10 pages. Papers in the Moodle Wed 11.12.

4) Students will comment essays at Moodle by Wed 18.12.

Will be informed during the lectures and in the Moodle.

ENROLLMENT to the course from Sept 21, 2013 to Oct 21,2013 in NettiOpsu.