Avvocato di strada (Street lawyer) is an association of lawyers established with the objective to protect homeless people, increasingly deprived of their fundamental rights and trapped in a situation from which they are unlikely to leave.

This practice consists in creating physical or virtual places that have the same legal force as private homes, which anyone can declare as their official address when voting or claiming entitlements.

Street lawyers work to inform people in poverty, and more specifically homeless people, about their rights and to assist them in legal proceedings.

EKIF - Cyprus Gender Research Centre

The gender of youth unemployment in Cyprus - views and attitudes of the unemployed youth and the employers

INVESTMENT IN HUMANITY From a compensatory to an emancipatory European and human society..

Unconditional Basic Income: "A basic income is an income unconditionally granted to all on an individual basis, without means test or work requirement".

The Social Cohesion Plans developed in 140 Towns of Wallonia (Belgium) are a transversal planification made out of identified local needs to rebuild and better connect the existing governmental mechanisms (federal, regional, provincial, municipal) around social cohesion and fundamental rights.

Plant - Water - Share these are the three key words of this citizens' initiative Planter – Arroser – Partager voici les trois mots clé de cette initiative citoyenne

Infirmiers de rue bridges the gap between the streets and health actors to bring care and hygiene to homeless people through an empowering method around people’s dignity, self-esteem and responsibility. Using hygiene as an entry point for self-recovery, the Association ensures long-term support until housing re-insertion.

Parliament & Citizens (Parlement et Citoyens) is a transparency and collaboration tool that allows representatives to involve citizens in drafting their bills. The platform proposes a new way for citizens to take part in the legislative process by co-designing laws.

Urban fruit for urban communities – developing a skilled community of Londoners to plant, care for and harvest fruit trees, thereby connecting urban communities and increasing access to fresh fruit.

"Recuperiamoci!" is a non-profit solidarity network within which circulates all the work experience that exists in the "prison sphere", and which aims to raise awareness and to improve the dignity of the alternative economy produced by the activity of prison inmates.

An Accorderie aims to develop a network of exchange of services that is accessible to anyone wanting to improve their living conditions - in particular their socioeconomic level – while fighting against poverty and social exclusion.

Sintra is located in the extreme west of Lisboa.

Lisboa is the capital of Portugal. It is located on the north bank of the river Tejo's mouth. The city itself has 550.000 inhabitants (2 millions with suburbs). As all municipalities in Portugal its coordination group is a local social network created in the framework of the national law of social network (1998). Taking into account the big dimension of the city the actions are organized by "priority neighbourhoods" with a participative framework.

Bretz'Selle was born around a simple idea: to promote the use of bicycles by learning how to repair bicycle in self-repair workshops.

http://ouisharefest.com/#about

When: Thursday-Saturday, May 2-4th 2013

Where: Paris, France

What: This three-day festival about the ‘Collaborative Economy’ will bring together a global community of entrepreneurs, designers, makers, economists, investors, politicians and citizens to build a collaborative future. Day 1-2 will gather 500 professionals and public officials. Day 3 will be free and open to the public.

"Youth for the Future" is a project aimed at increasing the participation in decision-making, concepts of democracy and active citizenship of youth refugees arriving in Sweden with their families.

This article addresses the challenges that people are encountering when deciding to adopt a complementary currency without fully articulating the problem or the context, and consequently many projects fail. Also it describes the work of Community Forge, a non-profit association that designs, develops and provides complementary currency systems and tools.

We are a group of 40 volunteers are sharing our knowledge and literacy skills in schools with children who are at risk of early drop-out. We started out with mathematics, where children’s needs were greatest, but we are eager to expand to other courses and to non-formal educational activities. We now collaborate with 3 schools and about 90 children.

A collective project of a self-organised group of families - in urgent need of housing - who have occupied a building owned by a bank partly responsible for the crisis.