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Idea submission form for a call for projects or a participatory budget

Participatory budget, neighbourhood call for projects, town suggestion box: every resident or association submits their proposal in the same format, which makes reviewing them much easier.

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10 fields · Free to start, no credit card.

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Call for ideas

You have an idea to improve your neighbourhood? Submit it: every proposal will be studied.

What, where, and why it would improve daily life.

Replace these options with your neighbourhoods.

What the template contains

  • Name of your idea Text · Required

    Required: a short name, used to present the idea.

  • Describe your idea Long text · Required

    Required: what, where and why, with a hint to guide the writing.

  • Neighbourhood concerned Dropdown · Required

    Required: replace the options with your neighbourhoods.

  • Theme Checkboxes · Required

    Required, several boxes allowed: to classify ideas.

  • Who would benefit from it? Long text

    Optional: who would benefit from the project.

  • You are submitting as Radio buttons · Required

    Required: resident, group of residents or association.

  • Full name or name of the association Text · Required

    Required: to contact the person behind the idea.

  • Email Email · Required

    Required: to announce whether the idea is selected.

  • Consent Checkboxes · Required

    Required: permission to publish the idea if it is selected.

  • Publication of your name Checkboxes

    Optional: a separate permission to publish the name with the idea. Declining it does not prevent submitting.

Every field can be renamed, moved, removed or made optional in the editor, and you can add your own.

Review ideas

Every proposal lands in your account. The CSV export groups them by neighbourhood and theme in a spreadsheet, for the feasibility study and costing by departments.

Add your criteria in the description: maximum budget, project in a public space, investment rather than running costs. People then submit eligible ideas.

What the form does not do

The form collects ideas: it does not run the vote, which is held separately. It has no automatic closing date either: announce the deadline, and unpublish the form on that day.

The confirmation email to the submitter and attachments require a paid plan. On the Free plan, the submitter sees your confirmation message after submitting.

Personal data: the right habits

  • Name and email are only for contacting the submitter: publish their name only if they ticked the box for it.
  • State in the description who runs the call for ideas and how long proposals are kept.
  • Responses are hosted in France, with OVHcloud.

FAQ

Questions about this template

Can someone submit several ideas?

Yes: they fill in the form once per idea. If you want to limit the number of proposals per person, say so in the rules.

Can someone edit their idea after submitting?

No: a submitted response cannot be edited. They can submit a new version, saying which one it replaces.

Is the template free?

Yes. It only uses fields available on the Free plan, and every question can be edited, moved or deleted.

Start from this template

Edit it in a few minutes, share the link, read the responses in one place. Hosted in France, with OVHcloud.

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