Public consultation held in Vicenza (Italy)

This book describes the first stage of the research, namely, how each one of the public consultations was carried out in the different countries (Spain, Slovakia, Portugal, Poland, and Italy), as well as providing data on the pilot consultation held in Barcelona, six months prior to the main consultations. The pilot consultation allowed the consortium members to identify what issues and considerations should be taken into account when organising and holding the public consultations per se. For example, how to manage citizen recruitment, the schedule to be developed and how scripts should be drafted, in order that the moderators of the citizen discussion groups should replicate them in their respective countries. Besides, the pilot consultation made it easier to determine the agreements that citizens should sign before participating, such as their informed consent to take part in the research, image rights and documents of confidentiality. Consultations validated the analysis instrument.