Participation: completed
Implementation: completed

The discretionary fund of the Social City – Social Cohesion support program can be used to support measures that have a positive effect on the respective neighborhoods of Neustadt, Lerchenberg, and Mombach. The aim is to take up and financially support smaller measures and cooperation projects by associations and institutions, as well as ideas from citizens. Information on citizen participation is available here:

Participation: completed
Implementation: completed

The provision of advertising space is an important tool for controlling advertising in public spaces and generating revenue for the city. Due to the end of the contract with the current service provider, a new tender is required. Information about the project can be found here:

Participation: completed
Implementation: completed

The Local Transport Plan (NVP) serves to strategically and methodically organize local public transport in the state capital of Mainz. The NVP specifies the objectives, defines the conditions of carriage, and determines which lines are to be operated and where. Information on citizen participation is available here:

Participation: completed
Implementation: completed

At the Mainz Youth Conference, up to 300 young people between the ages of 13 and 17 can develop their own municipal projects and present them to representatives from city politics and city administration. The young people then implement the projects with the support of the city administration and politicians. The Youth Conference takes place once a year. Here is some information about the 2024 Youth Conference:

Participation: completed
Concept development: completed

The state capital of Mainz wants to make its various sports and exercise facilities fit for the future. For this reason, the Institute for Sports Facility Development (ISE) in Trier was commissioned to conduct a sports (facility) development study. The study consists of various components. Key components include large-scale surveys of citizens, sports clubs, and schools in the city. Information on participation is available here:

Participation: completed
Implementation: completed

Bonifaziusstraße and Bonifaziusplatz were redesigned as part of the Social City funding program. Information on citizen participation is available here:

Participation: completed
Implementation: completed

The redesign of the square in front of the local administration building has been a long-standing wish of the citizens of Marienborn and the local council. Here you can find information about citizen participation:

Participation: paused

When planning new skate parks, children and young people have the opportunity to contribute their wishes and ideas. Committed young people from Hechtsheim have approached the Office for Youth and Family Affairs with the request that the damaged skate elements be replaced. Here is some information about participation:

Participation: completed
Implementation: completed

The two wooden play structures (large slide tower and balancing combination with ropes) need to be replaced after 18 years for reasons of age and safety. Here is some information about participation:

Participation: completed
Implementation: completed

Several pieces of playground equipment at the "In den Neun Morgen" playground will be removed in winter 2024/25 due to their age. This will free up space for new playground equipment to be installed. Information on participation is available here:

Participation: completed
Implementation: completed

The unfurnished playground for small children is to be re-equipped with play equipment due to a generational change and the influx of young families into the residential area. Here is some information about participation:

Participation: completed
Implementation: completed

The selection process for the redesign of the playground ran until December 16, 2022, which meant that all children, parents, and residents directly involved were asked to choose between two options. The majority opted for playground equipment option 1 (with a spinning top, balance beam, climbing tower, and table tennis table). The designs were based on the wishes and suggestions expressed at the meeting on July 19, 2022, on site at the playground.

Participation: completed
Implementation: completed

The green space between the residential areas "An der Wiese" and "Anemonenweg" in Mainz-Ebersheim is being redesigned. Children and young people have decided which new equipment will be installed there. Information on participation can be found here:

Participation: completed
Implementation: completed

The discretionary fund of the Social City – Social Cohesion support program can be used to support measures that have a positive effect on the respective neighborhoods of Neustadt, Lerchenberg, and Mombach. The aim is to take up and financially support smaller measures and cooperation projects by associations and institutions, as well as ideas from citizens. Information on citizen participation is available here:

Participation: Formal participation completed
Implementation: Completed

With a noise action plan, a municipality sets out goals, strategies, and concrete measures for noise reduction and for protecting quiet areas from an increase in noise. As a metropolitan area, the state capital of Mainz is obliged to draw up a noise action plan. Here you will find information on formal participation:

Participation: completed
Implementation: completed

As part of the Social City funding program, the area around the Caponniere in Neustadt was redesigned as a subproject of the so-called "Axis to the Rhine." Information on citizen participation is available here:

Participation: completed
Implementation: completed

On October 13, 2022, all interested children, parents, and residents were invited to an on-site meeting at the playground. The subsequent renovation work was completed as planned by the end of 2023, and the official opening of the playground will take place on Tuesday, January 23, 2024, at 4:00 p.m. as part of a press event hosted by Deputy Mayor Janina Steinkrüger and Deputy Mayor Dr. Eckart Lensch together with Local Council Chairwoman Sissi Westrich.

Participation: completed
Implementation: completed

The playground on Marc-Chagall Street in the Mainz Drais district has been redesigned. Following the participation of children and parents last summer, the playground was opened on March 29, 2023, by the two responsible department heads, Dr. Lensch (Social Affairs) and Ms. Steinkrüger (Green Spaces), as well as local mayor Norbert Solbach, during a press conference.

Participation: completed
Implementation: completed

The inclusive playground in Hartenberg Park in the Hartenberg/Münchfeld district has been redesigned. Following the participation of children and parents last summer, the playground was opened on March 15, 2023, by the two responsible department heads, Dr. Lensch (Social Affairs) and Ms. Steinkrüger (Green Spaces), as well as local council chairwoman Christin Sauer, during a press conference.

Participation: completed
Implementation: completed

The newly designed playground on Nino-Erné-Straße in Mainz-Lerchenberg was opened on Tuesday, May 31, 2022. The participation process took place in the summer of 2021. Children, young people, parents, and residents were able to choose from three options. The "hay wagon/combine harvester" playground equipment option received the most votes.

Participation: completed

What opportunities and challenges does the future growth of Mainz's Weisenau district present? Against the backdrop of the development of the former IBM site, which was previously used for commercial purposes, into the Heiligkreuzviertel residential area with over 5,000 residents, citizens were invited to participate in the "Weisenau Future Workshop" in 2016 and 2017. Numerous ideas on how Weisenau could develop as a whole were developed in various events. The Future Workshop process is now complete. All information can be found at the following link:

From 2013 to 2021, the city held the citizen forums "My City. My Ideas." twice a year to find out from Mainz residents which topics interest them and where they would like to see changes. From 2016 to 2019, seven district forums were also held in various districts of Mainz. The documentation and results are available here under "Completed Projects."