Cooperative City Budapest

Cooperative City Budapest is a non-profit Ltd focusing on research, policy and advocacy, helping civic involvement in urban transformation processes.

Projects

Young People for Resilient Communities (YoReC)

YoReC, an Erasmus+ initiative, empowers young people to build inclusive, resilient, and sustainable communities across Europe. It enhances civic participation and social cohesion through tools, storytelling, and networking. Cooperative City Budapest leads pilot activities, adapting methods to local contexts. YoReC equips youth with skills for active citizenship, addressing challenges like sustainability and inclusion. It fosters stronger communities and democracies.
Learn more about YoReC.

Events

Democratic Innovation Workshop in Budapest: Focus on Inclusion

To mark the launch of the Toolbox of Experimental Participation Methods developed by Eutropian, and to share the knowledge generated in the EUARENAS project, back in April 2024, we hosted a workshop in Budapest on participatory and deliberative democracy practices, with a special focus on issues around inclusion.

Learn more about the workshop.

About
Cooperative City Non-Profit Ltd  It is small non-profit enterprise specialised on collaborative urban development practices in Europe, with particular attention to local development and social inclusion of marginalised groups. It is a  partner organisation of Eutropian GmbH, that works with NGOs, community groups, social enterprises, municipalities and EU institutions in developing services, policies and organisational models.  Cooperative City is experienced in facilitating workshops with a diversity of stakeholders, moderating events, coordinating local and international knowledge transfers and education programmes, and designing cooperation processes. In its research, Cooperative City explores  innovative urban cooperation practices and we regularly publish our findings in Cooperative City Magazine. In its advocacy work, Cooperative City promotes citizen- and community-led urban initiatives by giving them additional visibility, connecting them to broader local and international networks and bringing them into inter-sectorial discussions about urban transformation.

The founders of Cooperative City Non-Profit Ltd are Levente Polyak, Sophie Bod, Lukacs Hayes.

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