Our Participation Projects
The city of Wuppertal makes many decisions. Among other things, it redesigns public spaces, allocates funds, and develops plans—for example, for climate protection. Just as diverse as these decisions are, so too are the opportunities for Wuppertal residents to get involved. For some projects, you can get involved directly on this page after registering. For other projects, you’ll find information on this page about participation events. The participation of Wuppertal residents leads to better decisions by the city and strengthens trust and cohesion in our city. You’ll find an overview of many of the city’s participation projects in the list below.
Urban Planning
Formal participation in urban land-use planning differs from our other projects. That is why we have created a separate page for it. Click here!
Project Map
You can also explore the city's relevant urban development projects on our project map. Click here!
Youth Budget for Wuppertal Barmen
In 2026, Wuppertal’s first youth budget will launch in the Barmen district. People between the ages of 14 and 21 can submit their own ideas for the district, discuss them, and ultimately decide which ideas will actually be implemented. The city is providing €50,000 to fund the implementation of these ideas. Whether it’s about leisure, sports, school, culture, events, or meeting places—all creative ideas are welcome. Ideas can be submitted from May through June; they will be discussed and developed over the summer, and a vote will take place in the fall. More information about the project is available on the project page linked here.
Nützenberg Park
The Nützenberg Park in Elberfeld-West is set to be further developed as a co-site for the Federal Horticultural Show through 2031. For example, the sports field will be transformed into a multifunctional sports park. We’d like to learn how you currently use and perceive the park. To help us, please take part in our online survey and postcard campaign between September 4 and 25. We’d also like to cordially invite you to a small event at Weyerbuschturm Square on September 12.
Nützenberg Park
The Nützenberg Park in Elberfeld-West is set to be further developed as a co-site for the Federal Horticultural Show through 2031. For example, the sports field will be transformed into a multifunctional sports park. We’d like to learn how you currently use and perceive the park. To help us, please take part in our online survey and postcard campaign between September 4 and 25. We’d also like to cordially invite you to a small event at Weyerbuschturm Square on September 12.
2031 Federal Horticultural Show
The 2031 Federal Horticultural Show is meant to be a project by and for all residents of Wuppertal! That is why it is important to us to involve Wuppertal residents as closely as possible in shaping the BUGA. We’ve summarized the current status of public participation in the BUGA on an overview page. Find out where participation has already taken place and how you can get involved in the future.
Wuppertal Plan
The Wuppertal Plan is intended to serve as a compass for our city in the coming years and to clarify how we will address key future challenges, such as digital transformation, social and economic challenges, and climate protection. The Wuppertal Plan focuses our efforts on the most important goals so that Wuppertal remains a livable home with a strong community well into the future. Through two events, citizens and key stakeholders in Wuppertal’s civic society will be involved in the strategic planning process.
Children and Youth Development Plan
If you’re between 12 and 27 years old and live in Wuppertal, we’d love it if you could take a few minutes to answer our questions! Your answers will help shape the programs for children and teens in our city over the next few years. This survey is part of the new Children and Youth Development Plan, which aims to tailor future recreational programs even more closely to your needs and wishes.
Redesign of the Ward Garden & Lienhardplatz
Stationsgarten and Lienhardplatz are the gathering spots in Vohwinkel—for celebrating, relaxing, playing, enjoying yourself, and moving on.
But are these places designed for that today? What will they need in the future? This summer, landscape architects are developing ideas for the future of Stationsgarten and Lienhardplatz.
Tell them what you’d like to see for your community center in Vohwinkel!
Care of the Future
The City of Wuppertal and the social welfare sector will host a specialized event in the fall of 2026 titled “Future Conference on Care 2036 in Wuppertal.” To help highlight your experiences, questions, and perspectives on the topic of care, we cordially invite you to participate in our survey from May 8 through June 7.
Plaza in front of the Alter Markt suspension railway station
With the Pop-Up Park on the forecourt of the Alter Markt suspension railway station, we—the City of Wuppertal—are trying out various ideas. We’ve created seating areas, built raised garden beds, removed sidewalk slabs, and replanted the green strips along the streets. Between fall 2024 and summer 2025, we wanted to hear from you about how you like the Pop-Up Park. In spring 2026, we gathered your opinions on design proposals created by students!
Parking Plan for Nordstadt & Luisenviertel
We’d like to learn about your expectations and wishes regarding public spaces in relation to parking. We’d like to incorporate your knowledge of the local situation into our work. You are the local experts who are out and about in the neighborhoods every day and are best positioned to assess the parking situation.
Test, Click, Help Shape the Future—Your City Is Going Digital
On Digital Day 2026, the City of Wuppertal invites you to learn about and try out the city’s digital services. On June 26, come to the town hall plaza in Barmen to test new offerings, provide feedback, and help make digital services more user-friendly. Your experiences and suggestions will be directly incorporated into the further development of these applications!
You can also provide feedback on our participation platform online on this page between June 24 and July 19, even outside of the event!
Wuppertal's Heat Transition
Through the Municipal Heat Planning initiative, we are developing a strategy to ensure that all neighborhoods in Wuppertal can continue to be supplied with renewable heat in a secure and sustainable manner in the coming years. In the summer of 2025, Wuppertal residents had the opportunity to provide feedback on the current status and potential analysis, and in the winter of 2025, on the target scenario and the proposed measures. The results are linked below.
Citizens' Budget 2025
Following the great success of previous years, the City of Wuppertal, in cooperation with the Community Foundation for Wuppertal, BARMER, and KNIPEX, once again made €210,000 available in 2025 for public-interest ideas submitted by citizens. All residents of Wuppertal were able to submit their own proposals and vote on the winning ideas during several voting rounds. The winners have now been determined.
Platz am Kolk. Art installations and redesign as part of the InnenBandStadt project
Between 2023 and 2025, the square at Kolk was used for various events and redesigned in several phases as part of the InnenBandStadt project. What makes this special is that the redesign evolved over the course of the project through a participatory process and was not planned from the outset.
What Does Vohwinkel Need? Participation in ISEK
How do Vohwinkel residents perceive the Vohwinkel town center today? What do they like? What should change? All Vohwinkel residents and interested Wuppertal residents were able to submit their ideas and suggestions regarding the so-called “Integrated Urban Development Concept for Vohwinkel (ISEK)” on this page from March 11 through April 2, 2024, to share their ideas and suggestions regarding the so-called “Integrated Urban Development Concept for Vohwinkel (ISEK)” on this page. The ideas collected were further developed at the neighborhood workshop on May 4, 2024.
Evaluation of the 2024 Guidelines on Citizen Participation
The City of Wuppertal’s guidelines on citizen participation were evaluated. The results have been available since mid-2024. The guidelines themselves already stipulate that regular evaluations should be conducted. Five years after the guidelines were adopted, the Advisory Board on Citizen Participation suggested in 2022 that the evaluation be carried out. The goal of the evaluation was to assess what has been working well so far in terms of the structure, organization, and implementation of citizen participation in Wuppertal, and where there is still room for improvement.
ISEK Barmen
How do you view Barmen’s downtown today? What do you like about it? What should change? What examples from other cities would you like to see in Barmen? All Barmen residents and interested Wuppertal residents were able to share their ideas and suggestions regarding the so-called “Integrated Urban Development Concept for Barmen” during the Downtown Conference on April 19,2023 and from May 11 through June 1, 2023, as part of an online participation initiative on this page, to share their ideas and suggestions regarding the so-called “Integrated Urban Development Concept for Barmen (ISEK).”
Citizens' Budget 2023
The 2023 Participatory Budget had 215,000 euros available. Residents of Wuppertal submitted a wide variety of project ideas. In a comprehensive participatory process, the various ideas were discussed in detail, reviewed, and developed. In the end, a vote was held to determine which projects would receive funding from the Citizens’ Budget. You can read the results here.
We redesigned talbeteiligung.de in the spring of 2025. Since then, all of our public participation processes have been available on talbeteiligung.de. On the city’s website, you’ll find an archive of past processes that you’re welcome to browse.
