Voting is over - the winner of the first Reinhard Mohn Prize has been selected! 

Over the past four weeks, 11.600 citizens in Germany were invited to select the winner for the Reinhard Mohn Prize 2011 out of seven finalists. Voting is now over and the winner has been selected.

In view of this year’s subject - democracy and participation - the Board of the Bertelsmann Stiftung decided that the winner of the Reinhard Mohn Prize should be selected by a representative sample of citizens in Germany. 11,600 participants of the BürgerForum in 2008, 2009 and 2011 were therefore invited to cast their vote. For this purpose the web-platform www.abstimmung-rmp2011.de was created. Via this platform the citizens could access short descriptions, case studies and films to gather information about the seven finalists. From February 21, 2011 to March 23, 2011 a total of 72% of all invited citizens cast their vote for one or multiple projects (approval voting).

The winner of Reinhard Mohn Prize 2011 is: Participatory Budgeting Recife, Brazil.