**4. Examples of activation and participation in the Lenzsiedlung**

Participatory approaches in community-based health promotion always include techniques and methods of activation and participation in equal measure, as basic elements, and are always also aimed at the main actors in question and the inhabitants of the community, district, or neighborhood. "Participatory" then means that not only the citizens or residents are to be involved in the events and to help shape them, but also, and especially, the professional actors in the field in question. This consideration is taken into account in the following presentation and discussion of methods of community-based health promotion taking place in the Lenzsiedlung in Hamburg-Eimsbüttel. The first section represents the participation of local actors but is only briefly examined because the procedure has already been described in more detail elsewhere [12–15]. The second section concerns the participation of residents through focus groups as well as a (quantitative) survey. In these examples, the focus is on determining the development of capacities in the district. The third section focuses on the direct involvement of citizens in health promotion activities. In the fourth section, the "Lenzgesund" round table is outlined, that is, the collaborative committee on which local professional actors and residents together control the development of the practical project (with the support of research).
