Svetlana Alenitskaya

Federal Agency for Civic Education | Königswinter, Germany

Svetlana Alenitskaya is a program manager at the German Federal Agency for Civic Education. She is responsible for the participatory projects and she has been coordinating the national PB Network since 2007.

The network currently consists of approximately 300 members and is available to German municipalities, interested civil society actors, and researchers. The network supports the work of practitioners and interested parties in PB by providing relevant information as well as facilitating the exchange of ideas and specific questions. 

Within the framework of the network, national and international conferences on relevant topics are held annually. Thematic and demand-oriented working group topics for the past years for instance included evaluation, monitoring, and activating the target communities. In conjunction with the members of the network, the manual on providing feedback to the community by municipalities as well as the explanatory film on PB were developed.