Assessing Main Factors Adopted within the EU Harmonised Online Public Engagement (EU HOPE)

EU Cohesion Policy is crucial leading policy for the public and state’s interaction and cooperation activities not only within regional but also national and cross-border to improve a sustainable and harmonised regional growth across the EU countries. To achieve such sustainable development, a citizen engagement within their local government’s decision making is vital. A scattered citizen engagement practices and policies across the local governments requires an integrated framework to achieve sustainability within the EU Cohesion Policy. This study is assessing a set of factors which highlight the initiatives of EU Harmonised Online Public Engagement (EU HOPE) and their relationship with Cohesion Policy. Citizen engagement factors within some of the EU cross- border pilot studies have been investigated against relative factors adopted within EU Harmonised Online Public Engagement (EU HOPE). A relation between the common citizen engagement factors within the pilot studies and found factors within EU HOPE have also been illustrated in the end of the research.