Terras Dentro – Associação para o Desenvolvimento Integrado
Terras Dentro is a non-profit association based in Alcáçovas, active since 1991, dedicated to the sustainable development of rural territori…
Community Resilience
Places building the capacity to weather change together: Biovilla's cooperative in the Arrábida hills, the transition village of Re.Rural in São Luís, and gathering points like O Cais in Silves. Where sustainability becomes a shared, local project.
Projects in this focus
Cooperativa Integral da Terra
Cooperativa Integral da Terra is a self-financed cooperative network connecting around 33 small producers, artisans and businesses between S…
ADPM – Associação de Defesa do Património de Mértola
ADPM is a Mértola-based development association founded in 1980, working on heritage conservation, environmental protection and community de…
Skanking Farmers
Skanking Farmers is an association based in Odemira, Alentejo, focused on regeneration and culture, known for organising a members' festival…
ESDIME – Agência para o Desenvolvimento Local no Alentejo Sudoeste
ESDIME is a cooperative local development agency coordinating territorial strategies and rural innovation initiatives in the Southwest Alent…
Terra de Paz
Terra de Paz is a community-building initiative creating a new model of rural village in Portugal for 20–40 families, rooted in ecological f…
The Dialogue Lab
The Dialogue Lab is a laboratory for human emergence based near Odemira, Portugal, designing and facilitating participatory dialogue process…
Regenerativa Cooperativa Integral
Regenerativa is an integral cooperative in São Luís, Odemira, that brings people and projects together to regenerate rural life in economic,…
Tribodar
An eco-village in its early stages and a retreat centre in Nisa, Alentejo, offering eco-retreats, Kundalini yoga, agroforestry workshops and…
PurposeFlow Living
PurposeFlow Living is a regenerative living community and retreat centre in Pavia, Alentejo, Portugal, working on ecological restoration, we…
Traditional Dream Factory (TDF)
Traditional Dream Factory is turning a former poultry factory in Abela, Alentejo into a regenerative village that combines co-living, syntro…
Tamera
Tamera is an international peace research and education centre founded in 1995 in Odemira, Alentejo, Portugal, where over 160 residents live…
Community resilience in Portugal
Fires, drought and the pandemic made resilience a concrete question in Portugal. It means the practical things a place can do for itself: grow some of its food, hold its own water, know who lives alone.
Biovilla runs a cooperative in the Arrábida hills. Re.Rural works from the transition village of São Luís. Coopérnico organises citizens around renewable energy nationally, Aldeia Inclusiva builds a rural community in Monção, and Unidos em Defesa de Covas do Barroso is what resilience looks like when a village organises against a mine.
Almost all of it is membership-based and local, so the entry point is a meeting rather than a donation. Related focuses: cooperatives and collectives, intentional communities and volunteering and social impact. Dated activities from these projects are listed in our events calendar.