QRER – Cooperativa para o Desenvolvimento dos Territórios de Baixa Densidade
QRER is a service cooperative based in Loulé that promotes sustainable development, entrepreneurship and nature and cultural tourism across …
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
Associação In Loco
Associação In Loco is a non-profit local development organisation based in São Brás de Alportel, active since 1988, working across the Algar…
Associação Odiana
Associação Odiana is a regional development association in Castro Marim. It promotes sustainable growth across the Baixo Guadiana through lo…
Cristaland Lagos
Cristaland Lagos is a conscious eco-community and event centre in the Algarve, Portugal, built around sustainable living, wellbeing and comm…
Nature of Life Foundation
The Nature of Life Foundation, registered in the Netherlands, is building a regenerative intergenerational community and educational ecosyst…
O Cais - Eco Loja - Café - Comida
O Cais is an eco café, sustainable shop and community space in a 1765 building in Silves, beside the old Roman bridge. It serves plant-based…
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.