Winning projects of the Participatory Budget Portugal (OPP)

The winning projects of the first Participatory Budget Portugal (OPP) will be announced on September 14, Thursday, at 3 pm, in a ceremony at the Pavilhão do Conhecimento, open to the public. The session will be attended by the Minister of the Presidency and Administrative Modernization, Maria Manuel Leitão Marques, and the Deputy Secretary of State for Administrative Modernization, Graça Fonseca.

The first OPP was triggered by the Portuguese Government at the beginning of this year, voting on projects submitted by citizens and admitted to the Call ended on September 10th and now the results of this process will be known.

The proposals to the OPP were translated into concrete ideas for projects in the areas of culture, science, adult education and training and agriculture, on the mainland, and in the areas of justice and internal administration, in the Autonomous Regions.

The proposals presented were validated in accordance with technical principles and transformed into projects, with a definition of investment value and a predictable deadline for their implementation. In total, 599 projects were submitted for voting, 97 of which were in the area of science.

National citizens and foreign citizens legally resident in Portugal, aged 18 or over, were able to vote for the OPP, each having the right to two votes: one for projects with a territorial scope and one for projects with a national scope. Voting could be done online and via SMS.