City councils, citizens and civil society organisations are creating measures in neighbourhoods and communities to sustain social cohesion and to keep our spirits up.
Virtual Facilitation Toolkit
A toolkit for virtual meeting facilitation supports moderators and facilitators in making the most of online formats.
Shopping and pharmacy deliveries
A municipality offers shopping and pharmacy deliveries with the help of volunteers from a local NGO.
Isolation rooms for homeless people
To support homeless people the City of Ostrów Wielkopolski organized special isolation rooms for homeless people, which are fully furnished and equipped with bathrooms and care agents.
Message on windows and balconies
Kids in Italy are hanging up pictures of rainbows as messages of hope on their windows and balconies.
Digital church
An online platform creates spaces for encounter for church congregations.
Online gathering to share solidarity practices
The online magazine Cooperative City holds weekly gatherings with experts to talk about solidarity practices in different European cities.
Collective responses to global health emergencies
A platform invites local and regional governments of all sizes to share their initiatives tackling Covid-19 and other health emergencies.
New type of oxygen device to help Covid-19 patients breathe
An easy to produce ventilator could fill the shortage of breathing devices in intensive care units.
App organises help regionally
To match people who seek help with those who offer it, an app using the regional dialect connects those who are close to each other.
EcoWalk
An Italian municipalitiy started a campaign to encourage people to combine jogging or walking with picking up trash, as a lockdown-compatible activity.
Self-Employed people help self-employed people
Self-employed people offer free courses for other self-employed people.
Food boxes for people in need
A youth-led initiative collects donations to support the poorest households in Lebanon with food supplies.