The University of La Laguna is undertaking its Participatory Budgets for the fifth consecutive year, a tool of participatory, direct and deliberative democracy, through which citizens exercise their right to collaborate in the design and monitoring of public policies from their involvement in the preparation of the budget and which clearly promotes the governance of the institution, brings it closer to its different publics and commits to them.

In light of the results obtained in previous editions and considering the benefits it provides, a new call for proposals is now open, allowing new projects to be submitted.

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The entire university community is invited to participate

Student body

Teaching and Research Staff (PDI)

Technical, Management and Administration and Services Personnel (PTGAS)

Submit your proposal

You can present a single proposal performance, for a maximum amount of 45,000 euros.

Remember you must do it with an account of institutional email of the University @ull.edu.es

You can consult the rules here link. 

»The deadline is 30 calendar days from the start of the call for applications.It begins on October 15 and ends on November 15, 2025.

Vote for a selected project

Access your institutional email in which you will have received an email informing you about how to vote.

You can vote until 5 proposals from among those that have been considered viable.

Goals

The main objectives of the university community's participation in the budget preparation process are:

  • Promote democratization in decision-making.
  • Involving her in the management of matters affecting the University allows her to gain a greater understanding of the scope of budget management.
  • To encourage members of the university community to interpret and critically evaluate the budgetary measures adopted by their governing bodies.
  • Increase the transparency of the management of university governing bodies.
  • Leveraging the knowledge of the people who make up the university community to improve university governance.

Phases of the participation process

1. Submit your proposal

Until November 15, 2025

The submission of proposals will be carried out in a standardized manner, in electronic format, by completing this form. form.

Remember that you must do it with your University institutional email account @ull.edu.es

The proposals must comply with the requirements established in the terms and conditions of the 2026 participatory budgeting call, which you can consult in the following link.

2. Study and evaluation

The proposals submitted will be studied by a Technical Evaluation Committee to verify that they meet the requirements of the call for proposals, and the projects that will go to a vote will be displayed on this website.

Results of the evaluation of the proposals to implement

3. Voting

Once the list of proposals is published, the people who make up the community will be able to vote for a maximum of 5 proposals from the total number submitted.

Voting will be conducted electronically once the voting period opens. Voters will have 15 calendar days to cast their ballots.

4. Selection

Once the voting period has ended, the technical evaluation committee will rank the proposals from highest to lowest score, allocating funding accordingly until the budget is exhausted, taking into account the amounts reserved for each group. The allocated budget for participatory budgeting is €345,000.00, which will be distributed as follows: 

  • A 20 % to finance proposals submitted by each of the groups that make up the university community: Students, Teaching and Research Staff and PTGAS.
  • 40% is reserved for the general quota, which will finance proposals based exclusively on the score obtained, regardless of the group to which the person promoting the proposal belongs.  

If there are any funds left over from those reserved for university groups, these will be used to increase the 40% of the general fee. 

In the event of a tie, the proposal that, in the reasoned opinion of Management, best serves the general interest will be put forward.

Proposed resolution and voting

5. Implementation and monitoring

Once the call for proposals has been resolved, the selected proposals will become ULL projects, which will be executed by the corresponding spending units, which will be designated by the Management.

The implementation units will report on the start and degree of implementation of the selected projects.

Resolution of the call for applications

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