Quinta dos 7 Nomes
Quinta dos 7 Nomes is an ecological cooperative founded in 2007 in Colares, Sintra, running a permaculture lab, an organic grocery shop, com…
Cooperatives & Collectives
Fruta Feia runs food rescue as a cooperative, while Colmeia is a community-owned grocery in the Alentejo. Other collectives organise land and labour on the same principle.
Projects in this focus
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 …
Gaia Colos
Gaia Colos is a food hub, café and shop in Colos, Odemira, run as a project of Cooperativa Integral da Terra. It sells local produce and ser…
Cooperativa Integral da Terra
Cooperativa Integral da Terra is a self-financed cooperative network connecting around 33 small producers, artisans and businesses between S…
CASES – Cooperativa António Sérgio para a Economia Social
CASES is a Portuguese public interest cooperative that represents and supports the social economy sector, including cooperatives, associatio…
A Eira Cooperativa
A Eira is a Galician social-initiative cooperative based in the Costa da Morte, combining web design, education and socio-educational projec…
Lógica Bio Coop
Lógica Bio Coop is a cooperative based near Fundão and Idanha-a-Nova, Castelo Branco district, connecting people, farms and territories arou…
Uma Boa Questão
Uma Boa Questão is a cooperative network born from a meeting between the Hip-Hop movement and the solidarity economy, running cultural, soci…
Coop 99
Coop 99, Cooperativa Integral do Porto, is a multi-sector cooperative in Porto that gives independent workers and small producers a formal l…
Converge Cooperativa da Cova da Beira
Converge Cooperativa da Cova da Beira is a citizen-led integral cooperative in central Portugal working on regenerative economy, participato…
Colmeia62
Colmeia62 is a housing cooperative with collective land ownership in Zambujal, Mafra, developing an ecovillage rooted in permaculture and co…
T'Inspirar Cooperativa Integral
T'Inspirar is a multisectorial cooperative based in Tomar that brings together producers and consumers around sustainable living, education,…
AlmaOhana
AlmaOhana is a cooperative community near Odemira, Portugal, that has spent years developing a homestead across two plots totalling over 88 …
CRESAÇOR – Cooperativa Regional de Economia Solidária dos Açores
CRESAÇOR is a regional cooperative founded in 2000 that represents the Azores' solidarity economy network, now made up of 37 institutions. I…
Casa do Impacto
Casa do Impacto is a Lisbon-based hub for impact entrepreneurship, promoted by Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Lisboa, offering incubation, ac…
Minha Terra – Federação Portuguesa de Associações de Desenvolvimento Local
Minha Terra is the Portuguese federation of 58 local development associations, coordinating LEADER-funded rural development work across the …
Growers
Growers is a digital platform and app connecting people to regenerative hosts, communities and off-grid projects across Portugal for stays, …
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…
GRACE – Empresas Responsáveis
GRACE – Empresas Responsáveis is a public-benefit, non-profit business association founded in 2000 that promotes corporate social responsibi…
ImpacTrip
ImpacTrip is a purposeful travel agency that offers meaningful social and environmental volunteering programs across Europe.
Kairós – Cooperativa de Incubação de Iniciativas de Economia Solidária
Kairós is a cooperative in Ponta Delgada, Azores, that incubates solidarity economy initiatives aimed at social inclusion and community resi…
CooLabora
A social intervention cooperative based in Covilhã. For 18 years it has worked in Cova da Beira on gender equality and against domestic viol…
Regenerativa Cooperativa Integral
Regenerativa is an integral cooperative in São Luís, Odemira, that brings people and projects together to regenerate rural life in economic,…
Rizoma Cooperativa Integral
A nonprofit, multi-sector cooperative in Lisbon's Anjos neighbourhood. Rizoma runs a self-managed community grocery store, with further sect…
Planetiers
Planetiers is a global ecosystem and active community based in Lisbon, Portugal, connecting sustainable solutions with organizations and ter…
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…
Pure Portugal
Pure Portugal is a rural property listing platform with over 20 years behind it, connecting buyers with private sellers of quintas, smallhol…
Cooperatives and collectives in Portugal
The cooperative is an old Portuguese form (agricultural co-ops have run cellars and mills here for generations) and it is being picked up again for food, housing, energy and land. The appeal is structural: members own it, so it cannot be sold out from under them.
Fruta Feia buys produce rejected on appearance and sells it to members in weekly baskets. Colmeia runs a community-owned grocery in the Alentejo. Others organise land, labour or shared equipment on the same principle.
Joining usually means becoming a member rather than a customer. Project pages explain how membership works. Related focuses: community resilience, food sovereignty and ethical shopping platforms. Dated activities from these projects are listed in our events calendar.