The Bike Hub, in collaboration with various partners, operates community bike shops in Dun Laoghaire and Dublin City as a social enterprise. Their primary goal is to promote a cycling culture and ensure the activity is accessible to a wide range of individuals within the local communities.
Starting in 2012, in the municipality of São Félix do Xingu, in southeastern Pará, the initiative has supported 310 family members with the “Cocoa More Sustainable” project to enhance the recovery and regeneration of around 1,000 hectares of cocoa plantations through agroforestry systems.
The initiative focuses on creating employment opportunities in the green sector for individuals transitioning from incarceration. Since 2009, the project has established more than 550 permaculture gardens in the San Francisco Bay Area, enabling people to grow their own food.
The Kiút programme is a work-integrated training program in which vulnerable Roma people with a predominantly minority background are provided with training and mentoring on how to grow cucumbers on their land and generate income by selling the surplus through companies contracted by the program maintainers. In addition to practical agricultural, entrepreneurial, and accounting skills, underserved, vulnerable people learn pro-environmental values and obtain education about sustainable food production and consumption.
The Zero Waste Association aims to promote a zero-waste lifestyle by gathering local leaders, professionals, and change agents willing to participate in the organisation’s mission; transforming production and consumption patterns towards a circular economy. This enterprising idea suggests environmentally friendly solutions to fasten the just transition to a greener way of living for the benefit of the environment and the community.
ACCTING aims to understand the impact of Green Deal policies on vulnerable groups, prevent inequalities, and produce knowledge and innovations to advance behavioural change at individual and collective levels for an inclusive and equal European Green Deal. This...
Kilombo is a collaborative project between the cooperatives LaFundició, Keras Buti, Tarpuna I Voltes, the association Keras Buti and the Distributor Ecocentral.
Gradski vrtovi Sisak (Urban Gardening Sisak) in Croatia is a unique concept; ambitious volunteers cleared up construction and heavy industry waste at a site and turned it into an urban community garden in a city with the majority of low-income and elderly people.
The local enterprise model for ownership of local wind turbines has been highly successful, enabling residents and local communities to be the driving force behind the shift to the usage of renewable energy in Europe. Denmark is on track to meet its 2050 goal of using only renewable energy sources for transportation, heating, and power. This future-oriented project has several advantages among these:
The urban & peri-urban crop Group PERKA is a great example of an initiative that cultivates seasonal vegetables according to the principles of organic, biodynamic and natural cultivation, with traditional methods and with means that do not affect or cause damage to the ecosystem, co-farmers and residents.
As ACCTING continues to explore how the European Green Deal and its associated policies impact vulnerable groups, the project is ... read more
Bridging the Gap: Inclusive Criteria for NGO Funding Online webinar on Tuesday 1 October 2024 11.00 - 12.30 CEST read more
Green Digital Accessibility 2024 Bridging Sustainability and Accessibilityin the Green Transition: Future Transformations in the ... read more
In June ACCTING participated in the 11th European Urban Resilience Forum (EURESFO) in Valencia, Spain, the 2024 European Green Capital. read more
ACCTING partner Burcu Borhan Türeli took part in the "Agroecology and Our Rights" meeting supported by UNDP GEF SGP, which gathered a ... read more
Based on insights developed in ACCTING research activities and experience from related projects and initiatives, this webinar explores ... read more
ACCTING is delighted to host an online webinar on “Rooted in equality: Strengthening food security through gender+ inclusive and ... read more
In this second policy brief, the ACCTING team outlines selected recommendations relating to the transition to sustainable food ... read more
The agenda for future research developed by ACCTING aims to pave the way for effective policymaking and implementation by serving as a ... read more
On 23 and 24 January, the ACCTING consortium organised a workshop on the evaluation of the impact of the pilot projects. read more
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