Our participation projects
The city of Wuppertal makes many decisions. Among other things, public spaces are redesigned, funds are distributed and concepts are developed for climate protection, for example. As varied as these decisions are, so too are the opportunities for Wuppertal residents to get involved in them. You can get involved in some projects directly on this page after registering. For other projects, you will find information on participation events on this page. The participation of the people of Wuppertal leads to better decisions by the city and strengthens trust and cohesion in our city. You can find an overview of many of the city's participation projects in the list below.
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Wuppertal heat turnaround
With municipal heating planning, we are developing a strategy for how all districts in Wuppertal can be supplied with renewable heat safely and sustainably in the coming years. Wuppertal residents were able to comment on the analysis of the current situation and potential in summer 2025 and on the target scenario and the measures developed in winter 2025. 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 the company KNIPEX, once again made €210,000 available this year for public welfare-oriented ideas from the local community. Everyone in Wuppertal was able to submit their own proposals and vote for the winning ideas in several voting phases. These have now been determined.
Pop-Up Park at the Old Market
With the pop-up park on the forecourt of the Alter Markt suspension railway station, we as the city of Wuppertal are trying out different things. We have created seating, built raised beds, removed paving slabs and replanted the grass verges to the streets. Between fall 2024 and summer 2025, we wanted to know how you like the pop-up park.
Parking space concept Nordstadt & Luisenviertel
We would like to hear your requirements and wishes for public spaces in relation to parking. We would 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 placed to assess the parking situation.
Square at the Kolk. Performance and redesign as part of the InnenBandStadt project
Between 2023 and 2025, the square at the Kolk was used and redesigned in several stages as part of the InnenBandStadt project. The special feature: The redesign developed over the course of the project as part of a participatory process and was not planned from the outset.
What does Vohwinkel need? Participation in the ISEK
How do Vohwinklers perceive the Vohwinkler Zentrum today? What do they like? What should change? From March 11 to April 2, 2024, all Vohwinkel residents and interested Wuppertal residents were able to contribute their ideas and suggestions to the "Vohwinkel Integrated Urban Development Concept (ISEK)" on this page. The ideas collected were further processed at the district workshop on May 4, 2024.
Evaluation of the 2024 Citizen Participation Guidelines
The City of Wuppertal's Citizen Participation Guidelines were evaluated. The results have been available since mid-2024. Regular evaluation is already laid down in the guidelines themselves. After 5 years of existence, the Citizen Participation Advisory Board suggested in 2022 that the evaluation should now be carried out. The aim of the evaluation should be to check what has already worked well in terms of the structure, implementation and realization of citizen participation in Wuppertal and where there is still room for improvement.
ISEK Barmen
How do you perceive Barmen's city center today? What do you like? What should change? What examples do you know from other cities that you would like to see in Barmen? All Barmen residents and interested Wuppertal residents were able to contribute their ideas and suggestions for the so-called "Integrated Urban Development Concept Barmen (ISEK)" as part of the city center conference on April 19, 2023 and from May 11 to June 1, 2023 as part of an online participation on this page.
Citizens' budget 2023
215,000 euros were available in the 2023 citizens' budget. Wuppertal residents contributed a wide variety of project ideas. The various ideas were discussed, examined and elaborated in detail in an extensive participation process. In the end, a vote was held to decide which projects should be funded with the citizens' budget. You can read the results here.
We redesigned talbeteiligung.de in spring 2025. We are not finished yet. In future, you will find all our participation processes on this page. Until then, you will find an overview on our municipal website. Click here.
