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
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 …
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…
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…
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…
T'Inspirar Cooperativa Integral
T'Inspirar is a multisectorial cooperative based in Tomar that brings together producers and consumers around sustainable living, education,…
Mesa Silvestre
Mesa Silvestre is a cultural association and a laboratory for local experimentation in Monsanto, Idanha-a-Nova. Through cultural and communi…
Skanking Farmers
Skanking Farmers is an association based in Odemira, Alentejo, focused on regeneration and culture, known for organising a members' festival…
Project Kamp
Project Kamp is a research community near Santa Comba Dão, Portugal, prototyping sustainable building, energy and food systems and sharing e…
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…
ADELIAÇOR – Associação para o Desenvolvimento Local de Ilhas dos Açores
ADELIAÇOR is a local development association based in Horta, Faial, that coordinates rural and coastal development strategies across the Azo…
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…
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…
Marruge Ecovillage
Marruge Ecovillage is a rural regeneration project in a schist village in the Caramulo Mountains, blending regenerative agriculture, bioclim…
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 …
CORE Sustentare
CORE Sustentare is an independent, science-driven consultancy specialising in ESG strategy, sustainability reporting and corporate social re…
Silveira Tech Re_generation Village
Silveira Tech is a regenerative village project reviving abandoned villages and 230 hectares of forest in Serra da Lousã, Portugal, combinin…
Lousitânea – Liga de Amigos da Serra da Lousã
Lousitânea is a non-profit association based in the schist village of Aigra Nova, Góis, dedicated to conserving and promoting the natural an…
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…
Eco Vale Feridouro
Eco Vale Feridouro is a collective living in Feridouro, Águeda, dedicated to holistic regeneration of land, people and ecosystems around the…
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 Riverside Community
The Riverside Community is a grassroots family project in Central Portugal dedicated to land restoration, eco-building, and creating a self-…
Trokaki
Trokaki is a community exchange shop in Carnide, Lisbon, where people trade unwanted items and services for credits, with no money involved.
The Dialogue Lab
The Dialogue Lab is a laboratory for human emergence based near Odemira, Portugal, designing and facilitating participatory dialogue process…
Casa d'Abóbora
Casa d'Abóbora is a youth association in the village of Aldeia, in the low-density rural area of Cinfães, working for social, cultural and e…
ATPD — Associação Transmontana Pelo Desenvolvimento
ATPD is a non-profit association in Vila Flor, Trás-os-Montes, that works to promote human rights, equality and community resilience through…
Mount of Oaks
Mount of Oaks (Monte dos Carvalhos) is a small, self-organising intentional community and permaculture farm on 5 hectares of terraced land n…
Spirala Ecovillage
A regenerative camping site and eco-hub on 10.4 hectares in São Miguel de Acha, Castelo Branco District, offering community living, workshop…
Azeitão Eco-consciente
Azeitão Eco-consciente is a community movement in Azeitão, Portugal, that promotes sustainable, active and connected living through events s…
ImpacTrip
ImpacTrip is a purposeful travel agency that offers meaningful social and environmental volunteering programs across Europe.
Associação Odiana
Associação Odiana is a regional development association in Castro Marim. It promotes sustainable growth across the Baixo Guadiana through lo…
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…
O Fojo Permaculture | Integral Education Center
O Fojo, founded in 2009, is one of the first permaculture projects in central Portugal. It is now growing into an Integral Education Center …
Guardiãs da Natureza
Guardiãs da Natureza is a national network of women who act as local catalysts for ecosystem regeneration, biodiversity conservation and sus…
ATO — Associação Terras de Ourondo (Terra Divina)
ATO (Associação Terras de Ourondo) runs retreats, artistic performances, workshops and an itinerant clown school at Terra Divina, in Ourondo…
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,…
Universo Refazenda
A rural creation and cultural mediation project in Alquerubim, Portugal, that brings together art, memory, agriculture and community to buil…
ZERO – Associação Sistema Terrestre Sustentável
ZERO is a Portuguese environmental NGO, founded in 2015, that advocates for sustainability on energy, pollution, waste, biodiversity and soc…
Nowhere Desk
A rural coworking and co-living space in a stone farmhouse in Arcos de Valdevez, northern Portugal, where remote work goes alongside farming…
Rewild the Future
An off-grid community and education hub in a forest valley in central Portugal, working on ecological restoration, Montessori-inspired learn…
Folha Verde / Benfeita Ecozone
A bilingual natural education project and intentional eco-community of more than 270 people in the mountains of Benfeita, central Portugal. …
Tribodar
An eco-village in its early stages and a retreat centre in Nisa, Alentejo, offering eco-retreats, Kundalini yoga, agroforestry workshops and…
Vale Ondula
A permaculture living lab and eco-community on 3.6 hectares of forest in Sande, Northern Portugal. Two families and their volunteers are bui…
Rizoma Cooperativa Integral
A nonprofit, multi-sector cooperative in Lisbon's Anjos neighbourhood. Rizoma runs a self-managed community grocery store, with further sect…
Aldeia Inclusiva
Aldeia Inclusiva is a non-profit association in Monção, Portugal, building a rural, nature-based community where people with disabilities ca…
Loural Ecovillage
Loural Ecovillage is a sustainable community and retreat centre in Colmeal, Góis, Portugal, working towards food and energy self-sufficiency…
Unidos em Defesa de Covas do Barroso
Unidos em Defesa de Covas do Barroso (UDCB) is a local association in northeastern Portugal that firmly opposes mining projects in the regio…
Planetiers
Planetiers is a global ecosystem and active community based in Lisbon, Portugal, connecting sustainable solutions with organizations and ter…
The Hide PT
The Hide PT is a co-living and retreat centre in a secluded valley near Oleiros, Central Portugal, with space for creatives, remote workers …
Live With Earth
Live With Earth is a Portuguese non-profit association, active since 2012 and formally founded in 2017, working on sustainable development a…
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…
Cristaland Lagos
Cristaland Lagos is a conscious eco-community and event centre in the Algarve, Portugal, built around sustainable living, wellbeing and comm…
Tamera
Tamera is an international peace research and education centre founded in 1995 in Odemira, Alentejo, Portugal, where over 160 residents live…
Nature of Life Foundation
The Nature of Life Foundation, registered in the Netherlands, is building a regenerative intergenerational community and educational ecosyst…
Living the Life Portugal
Living the Life Portugal is a family-run quinta near Figueiró dos Vinhos, where Tom, Ros and their children share their home, skills and kno…
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.