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The United Nations Youth Assembly in Kosovo is an established platform that brings together young people from diverse communities to co-create solutions to societal challenges. Through dialogue, capacity-building, and collaboration, it turns youth ideas into concrete action on peacebuilding, inclusion, and sustainability. The 7th edition engaged 130+ participants who developed four youth-led initiatives on reconciliation, cultural heritage, digital democracy, and sustainability.

The project Creative North brings people together in small municipalities in Northern Sweden through hands-on design workshops focused on enhancing health, well-being and quality of life through place-making. By harnessing local creativity and fostering transdisciplinary collaboration, the workshops enable communities to co-create solutions that shape their environments. The process strengthens local identity, resilience and shared visions for sustainable and inclusive futures.

A Third of Life is a travelling temple, in Logroño set in a secret garden planted and designed in the rooms of a derelict, roofless townhouse. The temple has a two-fold function: 1) locally, to establish a permanent, drought-resistant garden for local human and non-human residents in the historical centre of the city, which suffers from heat-island phenomenon; 2) to act as a stage for the travelling incubation temple, which aims to overcome the political polarisation and detachment from nature.

This upcycled kitchen vessel helps households collect and filter used cooking oil through a simple modular design based on PET jars, a sieve coupling and zeolite. Compact and easy to use, it keeps oil out of drains, supports cleaner wastewater systems, and turns everyday household habits into local circular action through reuse, prevention and community learning.

In collaboration with the German Institute for Adult Learning (DIE) our initiative was implemented with the comprehensive assessment of the Kosovar Employment Agency training needs and counselor capacity building. The primary goal of this project was to assess the agency's present functioning and find areas for improvement. By performing this review, we strengthen the agency's ability to efficiently satisfy the needs of both job seekers and businesses.

The rewilding of the bison has sparked the beginning of a rural economy in the mountains of the Banat region in Romania. But it was only through the tireless efforts of the team that spent countless hours in participatory consultations with the locals and multidisciplinary teams that a project like WeWilder put stellar nature experiences in motion and generated even more initiatives, which culminated in the birth of a cooperative for local produce. It is all abou offering a place at the table.

The project "Loomey tunes:co-weaving a sustainable future in rural areas" involves the design and pilot operation of a Creative Community aimed at producing sustainable clothing with a focus on weaving. Artisans-weavers, designers, and local craftspeople collaborated, weaving a common fabric as a collective act of creation, but also as a shared experience, for collective narratives and the co-creation of valuable apparels within a production based community.

HouseEurope! is a community-driven non-profit for the built environment, translating practical competency into policy and advocacy. Through formats including European Citizens’ Initiatives, films, research, and a network of 250+ organisations across 27 EU member states, it connects practice, democracy, and public discourse to create frameworks and awareness for the social and ecological transformation of the built environment.

ALSA Olive Oil Factory is a rural production model in Albania that integrates renewable energy, circular economy practices, and local farmer networks. By using solar power and transforming production waste into resources, the project reduces environmental impact while strengthening local livelihoods. ALSA demonstrates how sustainable agro-processing can drive economic resilience, community inclusion, and scalable green transformation in rural areas, across similar regions.

When a major event ends, what remains? Eccaplan developed three services that transform events into urban circularity hubs: the Zero Waste Program deploys sorting stations with certified waste pickers; the Carbon Neutral Program offsets 100% of emissions via certified credits; and the Emissions Calculator makes climate impact tangible. Results verified since 2023: 1,653 events, 19,000+ tonnes of CO₂ offset, and 815+ tonnes of waste diverted from landfills.