FixMyStreet is an application that allows citizens inform local authorities of problems that need to be addressed in their neighbourhood (broken streetlights, potholes, poor lighting, unsafe streets, etc...) with the help of a map. FixMyStreet is a e-democracy project established by ...

ATSA (Socially Acceptable Terrorist Action) is a non-profit organization founded in 1997 by artists Pierre Allard and Annie Roy. Their objective to have their art denounce, criticize, alert and question, (through facilities, performances or realistic scenes) by transforming the urban landscape ...

A self-training project about cooperation, collaborative projects and tools. Divided into 13 modules, which are 4 to 6 hours each, Animacoop can be taken at anytime. The training includes, 2 face-to-face sessions, as well as some timed sessions to test the tools analyzed during training.

The food company, Danone, has created an endowment fund including an initial endowment of €100 million to stimulate economic and social development in the ecosystem of its "value chain", its suppliers, sub-contractors and in its labour pool. Operational since September 2009, the endowment fund ...

Carsharing is a system in which a company, public agency, cooperative, association or even an individual provides members with car-sharing service. The user of the system makes their car available for as long as it is needed. The rest of the time, the car is used by other members. The purchasing ...

Active in the valleys of the Emilia-Romagna region, southeast of Milan, the Italian regional bank Credito Emiliano has been using Parmesan as collateral since 1953. This system allows cheese producers to continue to be financed in northern Italy. Credito Emiliano has two climate-controlled ...

Glif is a visual language, created by 5000 children throughout the world, that started with 800 signs. All the signs were created by children from 9 disadvantaged schools around the globe (India, Senegal, Cuba, Nepal, Hungary, Tunisia, Vietnam ...). Its essential driving force was a group of ...

Following the merger of Nef (France), the Banca popolare etica (Italy) and Fiare (Spain), the first alternative ethical bank was launched in 2010 as a European cooperative. The objective is to provide a financial institution dedicated to the growing demand for financing for humanity for the ...

Part-time shared is an innovative formula that allows business executives to share their time between 2, 3 or 4 employers who are not direct competitors. This formula is becoming increasingly popular with small and medium businesses, which do not have means to pay for full-time work or do not ...

Guerrilla gardening is a political activist movement, which uses gardening as an environmental action to defend land rights, agrarian reform, and permaculture. Activists occupy abandoned areas, which do not belong to them, and cultivate crops in order to challenge the authorities on their use. ...

The initiative by the Danish association "Stop the Violence", aims to facilitate meetings and exchanges between people of different cultures, traditions... Through its human library. The concept is to have two people meet face to face for a short encounter, the first person will take the role of ...

The Gross National Happiness (GNH) is an alternative to calculating wealth by the gross national product (GNP). Recommended by the King of Bhutan, Jigme Singye Wangchuck, in 1972, the purpose of this index is to build an economy that would serve the Bhutan culture - based on Buddhist spiritual ...

The Economic Development Board in the city of Calgary (Alberta, Canada) launched in 2008 an online initiative called Calgarypedia - the first wiki community that aims to connect Calgarians with each other and the rest of the world. Calgarypedia is both a central and collaborative platform where ...

Nuage Vert is an urban art project that uses the smoke from a factory chimney as a projection screen to make people aware of a site that is visible and ignored - a waste incinerator. The project was initiated by HeHe (Helen Evans and Heiko Hansenun), a German-British group based in Paris. The ...

Book Therapy or book care is a practice that consists of taking care of or treating particular psychological problems mainly through written materials. Therefore, the client has very little contact with their therapist since the written material is what constitutes the basis of his or her ...

In 1999, Céline and Philippe Bossanne, passionate about a particular art of camping and admirers of nature and open spaces, decided to create their utopia: inventing a new kind of camping that combines comfort and nature, designed as a meeting place, a place where people are welcomed, respected ...

The Research Institute for Extraordinary Experiences (INREES), founded in 2007 by journalist and writer Stéphane Allix and Dr. Bernard Castells, offers caregivers, the scientific community and the general public a fresh new look at inexplicable human experiences lived by so many people. It ...

The principle of BookCrossing is simple: leave a book in a public place so that it can be picked up and read again by others, who will then do the same, and so on. This practice which took off in the United States is based on a website. "BookCrossers" leave a message indicating that they have ...

Since 2003, each school year, 10 to 15 young students are dismissed from school and approximately 15 older people participate in these "intergener@tions" meetings. As a first step, students are trained to reflect on the uses of the Internet and the role of a teacher. Then, every week they ...

Staying in contact with family and friends is key to the reintegration of socially excluded or vulnerable persons. Similarly, the ability to be contacted by employers, government agencies and social workers is also very important. Nevertheless, it is often these people who pay the highest ...