Changing objections to positive action
Pavel Rek has been the mayor of the village of Ratenice in Central Bohemia for over three years. Yet it was not his own political ambitions that led him to
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Nuns on tractors: “We’re transforming a barren plain into an oasis”
If you have any preconceived notions about nuns, an encounter with the sisters of the Carmelite Convent in Drasty in Central Bohemia may change your view. These women drive tractors, use
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Via’s Community Academy showed me I’m not alone
“I started out by wanting to do something for my family, but before I knew it, I was organizing events for the whole community,” says Žaneta Strohová of the Žížala na
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Restoring water balance in the landscape
“The landscape has a memory and water knows where it belongs in the landscape. We try to speed up these processes, helping restore natural patterns so that the landscape recover
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Call for applicants for Community Alphabet
We have released a Call for applicants for Community Alphabet 2025-26. We are looking for active residents in European countries who are interested in inclusive participatory approaches and exchanging with peers.
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New online resource about community building
We have launched a new online resource – Trust Community – as part of our international peer learning program Community Alphabet. The website contains ebooks on themes related to inclusive participatory approaches
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Public libraries as village ‘living rooms’
Libraries in Czech villages and towns are no longer just for borrowing books or magazines. More and more, they are serving as places of learning, interaction between people of different