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ES Free Consul platform for limited
resource organizations
In 2025 we start with offering a free Consul Democracy instance to public or civil society organizations with limited resources. This means that not only the platform is free of cost (which it already is, being free and open source), the Consul Democracy Foundation is also taking care of installation and hosting, in collaboration with its Certified Companies.
This considerably lowers barriers for using the platform, as all users have to do is learn how to use the platform.
Currently we are looking for 2-3 pilot projects that want to use the platform for free for a preliminary period of 1 year.
We are looking to kick off the project with a few pilot users. If you’re representing a public or civil society organization with limited resources that wants to use the Consul Democracy platform, please get in touch using the form below.
The deadline for expressions of interest is 30 September. Please leave your name, email, organization and briefly describe why you are interested in using the Consul Democracy platform.
Dates and Duration
Start date: 15 October 2025
End date: –
Total duration: infinite
The project will run as long as there is interest in our user community. In case of high demand, the Consul Democracy Foundation reserves the right to decide which users are prioritized, based on an understanding of available resources, experience with participation, and political commitment.
Partners
This project is being developed in collaboration with the following organizations:
Enreda Coop is based in Spain and is a Consul Democracy Certified Company. Enreda maintains the instance on a technical level and gives support to its users through our Slack channel.
Multi-tenancy
This project is made possible by a functionality of the Consul Democracy platform called Multi-tenancy. Multi-tenancy allows users to make copies of the platform and host these copies within one single installation using different (sub)domains.
This is already a use case in Tenerife. The Cabildo (island government) of Tenerife hosts its own plarticipation platform as well as the platforms of several municipalities on the island, like Buenavista del Norte and Santiago del Teide, using one single installation of the Consul Democracy platform.