Thriving Communities
A collective initiative with a mission to help communities
create radical enough change to thrive in the 21st century.
We focus on the core problem of how communities can organise, resource, plan & manage radical enough change.
About Us
Find out more about our approach, where we work, our collective, our funders & projects, and why we do what we do.
Communities
Explore the communities where we are working to make radical change happen.
Investment Portal
Could you invest in our core
programmes or community projects? More details here.
Key Work Areas
We connect our approach into action by working in these key areas in our member communities. Learn more here
Learning Space
We use learning events and insight articles to advance and share our collective learning. Check them out here.
News
7-9 June 2023
This training will help you to develop your mission-led change capacities, adopt a mission-led mindset; and to use a mission-led approach to help organise, plan, and manage radical change for your community.
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09.30 CET - 13 June 2023
If you are intrigued about Thriving Communities, and interested to get involved, then this open session will be a chance to find out more, to ask questions, and to see whether you would like to join our collective work.
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18 June 2023
This in-person training will build your understanding and skills for using placemaking approaches to bring about positive change in your community!
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In Focus
A Mission for Climate Neutral Cities
The EU has launched a Mission on Climate-Neutral and Smart Cities that aims to mobilise local authorities, citizens, businesses, investors, and national authorities to achieve climate neutrality by 2030. Thriving Communities is all about helping communities to achieve this sort of mission. Pursuing climate neutral cities is one of the key areas that we work on. Here are links to some of our recent events and articles on this topic:
Placemaking for Civic Imagination
Placemaking for Civic Imagination is on the critical path towards Thriving Communities, because it paves the way for a paradigm shift in the role that citizens play in deciding how their community assets are developed and managed. Therefore this is one of the key areas that we work on, and we are aiming to build a placemaking movement across SE Europe. Here are some recent highlights.
all communities to work on this area as part of their overall radical change process.
We have secured a first tranche of funding for our Placemaking for Civic Imagination programme from the Citizens, Equality, Rights and Values programme of the European Union. Project partners are Korimako, KLIK, PUSH and Placemaking Europe (working closely with Placemaking Western Balkans)