Participatory Budget

Every year ESB organises a participatory budget. This means that everyone - students, former students, staff and teachers - can (and should!) propose ideas that will (after some maturing) be put to a vote by the community. The people who make up ESB will be able to think about and choose how ESB will evolve. Each winning project will have up to €2,000 to implement.

Anyone wishing to apply must read the regulations carefully.

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To summarise:

  • the aim is to help create a better ESB for people, the environment and the future
  • anyone from the ESB community (individually or as a group) can submit one or more ideas to the competition
  • interested parties submit a first draft of their idea
  • then have an additional deadline to submit detailed proposals
  • a jury will evaluate these proposals
  • the ideas that pass this screening are put to the vote
  • the two most voted are implemented by the ESB management in collaboration with their authors

Take part in the Participatory Budget!

Fill out this form with your proposal (one paragraph is enough) by 16 November 2025.

These are the projects already implemented thanks to this initiative:

2023
ECO ESB – Expansion of the building’s recycling point network
Creation and furnishing of a student lounge

2024
Design Upgrade for the Nutritional Assessment Laboratory
From Book to Book – a free and circular library for ESB

These are the projects currently being implemented:

2025
Project Room for Bioinformatics
Catch a Ride to ESB – creation of a car sharing platform
LabCoatClean – washing and drying machines for research lab coats