This article provides information about movement, globalization and supranational institutions at the First European Social Forum. The author uses data from a survey carried out during the first European Social Forum, held in Florence, Italy in November 2002. It is noted that the new global movement is redesigning political boundaries through participation, claiming spaces for democracy and universal rights of citizenship. In fact, there is an important connection between participation, democracy and citizenship, which are all concepts enriched with new meanings by the action of the global movements.