openPetition

About openPetition

Since 2010, openPetition has been helping people bring about change. As a petition platform with over 15 million users, our mission is to expand digital participation opportunities and make our democracy more accessible to everyone.

Our goals are recognized as charitable. To ensure that they remain so in the future, openPetition has been organized as a responsible ownership company since 2022.

We are financed exclusively by small donations from our users. We strictly reject any influence from companies or political organizations.

Mission & Goals

Making participation easier

openPetition helps people draw attention to urgent issues and get involved in politics. We advise petitioners from the start to the submission of their petition. The goal: to make political participation easier and contribute to an active civil society. For this educational work, we regularly participate in panel discussions, lectures, and networking meetings.

Making politics understandable

We inform citizens about their opportunities for participation and help them make the most of these opportunities. We treat every petition transparently and publish news on the petition page. In addition, we ask all elected representatives of the region for a public statement when the so-called openPetition quorum is reached.

Strengthening the right to petition

openPetition is committed to strengthening the right to petition and expanding online participation. We also demand the right to be heard in politics as soon as a petition has reached a certain number of signatures. To this end, we are in contact with political decision-makers and administrations in Germany at the federal and state levels, as well as in Europe.

Modernizing parliamentary democracy

In addition to our petition platform, we are working on projects to modernize our democracy. With the openDemokratie tool, we are also bringing online petitions to local communities. Our Hausparlament format makes debates on current political issues more accessible. And our latest project, opn.vote, aims to enable secure, transparent digital voting in the future.