What is the Magazine about?
Cooperative City Magazine brings its readers the stories of collaborative urban development processes in different areas in Europe.
It is a project run by Eutropian, a company and association developing collaborative planning processes in various cities in Europe.
Powering the Future Together: How Six Austrian Municipalities Are Building Regional Energy Independence
The GU-Süd Energy Community in Austria is proving that collaboration can be the key to a more resilient and sustainable future. In our interview, Mayor Tulnik of Fernitz-Mellach explains how
Powering the Future Together: How Six Austrian Municipalities Are Building Regional Energy Independence
The GU-Süd Energy Community in Austria is proving that collaboration can be the key to a more resilient and sustainable future. In our interview, Mayor Tulnik of Fernitz-Mellach explains how the six municipalities south of Graz—Fernitz-Mellach, Gössendorf, Hart bei Graz, Hausmannstätten, Raaba-Grambach, and Vasoldsberg—are taking their long-standing partnership one step
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Voices of the Future: Vienna’s Participatory Youth Strategy in Action
The Vienna Youth Strategy participatory process was an inclusive and collaborative initiative in Vienna, Austria, aimed at shaping policies and programs for the city’s youth population. Through a series
Budapest’s First Repair Café: Where Sustainability Meets Community-Building
Repair Café Budapest is Hungary’s first and only repair café, offering a collaborative space where broken household items—like toasters, bicycles, and sewing machines—are brought back
Collaborative grants for the third sector – the case of Brighton and Hove
Commissioning models by which the public sector externalises the provision of public services often favour large companies, excluding smaller providers. In an attempt to set
Civocracy: Revolutionising Digital Civic Engagement in Europe
Civocracy is revolutionising digital civic engagement by providing a secure and inclusive platform for citizens to actively participate in decision-making processes. By combining online tools
Placemaking
What kinds of financial support and solidarity structures are needed to help community-led development projects flourish?
Gamification
How to make digital interaction more engaging and fun? We explore the use of digital games to experience and design your city.
Urban commons
How can urban commons strengthen communities and help face the upcoming social and economic challenges? Produced in cooperation with the gE.Co project.
Manifesto to Action
We advocate for existing knowledge, policy recommendations and financial resources to be geared towards the strengthening of social and solidarity economy practices throughout Europe.
Solidarity City Vienna
Solidarity City Vienna is a platform of Cooperative City. It promotes and strengthens social and solidarity economy practices, mapping 12 initiatives that focus on social inclusion, fair employment, participation, sustainable food systems, ethical consumption and responsible tourism.
magdas HOTEL: Changing the world while sleeping
This retro-style hotel next to the famous Prater park is the first hotel in Austria that is run as a social business. It is dedicated to the integration of people with a refugee background and helping them overcome barriers at the job market.
Bikes and Rails: Co-housing with solidarity and an environmental mission
Self-managed and affordable, ecological and inclusive, Bikes and Rails' concept provides for buying houses collectively through private financing, freeing them from the market in the long term and thus securing affordable housing.
Zukunftshof: An agricultural city laboratory at the edge of Vienna
A former farm at the southern edge of Vienna’s Favoriten district, Zukunftshof brings innovative urban agriculture, water management and sustainable energy production closer to the people, integrating old traditions and former residents in new urban developments
