Creative support networks propose new events and meetings to provide tailored innovative solutions for complex local community challenges.

Izlelo is the first restaurant in Hungary, which provides skill training and permanent employment to people with disabilities using a sustainable business model.

Container-deposit legislation (CDL) is any law that requires collection of a monetary deposit on soft-drink, juice, milk, water, alcoholic-beverage, and/or other containers at the point of sale.

The village of Stara Zburyivka from southern Ukraine, has attained nationwide fame in the struggle against corruption, bureaucracy through unprecedented grassroots mobilization and exercise of self-government. Their response was the creation of the Stara Zburyivka Self-Defense Committee aimed at fighting the expropriation and squandering of their agricultural lands and challenging the legal proceedings against the village mayor who took an uncompromising stand in this matter.

Responding Together meeting with citizens and public officials form Ulyanivsk Oblast

Date: June 19-21, 2013

For more details about the event, please contact Malcolm Cox - malcolm.cox à coe.int

Village Life is an NGO that helps rural communities develop sustainably. They do this is by connecting the urban traveler, with the “old world” village life in the heart of rural Romania.

The Paris City Council has launched 6 night solidarity restaurants to enable destitute persons to access quality food by taking the time to sit down and eat in a nice atmosphere.

Lugoj became the first city in Romania which adopted a "free of charge" policy to the citizens using public transportation. The measure comes to encourage people to ride in buses, as well as to decrease the number of cars circulating in the city.

Beautiful Petersburg (BP) is a movement of active citizens for the improvement of the urban environment quality. We instruct citizens using effective methods of making their cities better, providing them with a simple web tool and organizing regular educational and research events.

Policies (local/ national/ EU level) can help lower down the amount of food being wasted while providing access to food for the most deprived persons; meanwhile citizen organizations such as foodbanks remain keystones in this process.