“Meetings with the Mayor” are a regular meetings held between the Mayor and neighbourhood residents. They are held without any pre-established agenda. The Mayor attends them to listen, answer what she can, share reflections on the city and its priorities and improve everyday municipal work. They are unprecedented participation spaces. 

The first of these took place in 2015, since when, some fifty meetings with residents have been held. They take place every two weeks in Barcelona’s various neighbourhoods (they had to be suspended last year because of the COVID-19 pandemic).

Children are citizens in their own right and must be taken into account. Children’s rights are a priority for the Mayor of Barcelona. Because of this, during the Covid-19 health emergency the Mayor made the case for children’s rights and denounced the adult-centred perspective employed to manage the pandemic. Here are some of the projects we are implementing from a perspective which includes our youngest citizens.