Long-form research on European urban indicators, citizen participation, EU funds, and the methodology behind The Pulse. Written for civic-tech professionals, city administrators, and the curious citizen.
A per-city deep dive. Pulse 72, the surprising Listening Score finding, sister-city patterns worth using, Mazowieckie EU funds context.
A 5-step walkthrough of how to extract maximum signal from any European city's profile. Set a timer. Stop after 90 seconds.
Different methodologies, different audiences, different trade-offs. How The Pulse compares to Numbeo's Quality of Life Index, and where each is the right tool.
How does The Pulse compare to the SDSN European Cities SDG Index? Methodology, scope, audience, accessibility — and why both exist.
A practical map of the EU funding calls open to civic-tech and city projects — CERV, Digital Europe, Horizon Europe Cluster 2 — deadlines, budgets, eligibility.
From "voivodeship" to "Listening Score" to "NACE code" — a working vocabulary for European civic-tech, with live search across all 60 terms.
How do you measure whether a city actually listens to its citizens? Inside the 5-component indicator nobody else publishes, why we built it, and what it gets wrong today.