City councils, citizens and civil society organisations are creating measures in neighbourhoods and communities to sustain social cohesion and to keep our spirits up.

Corona Tech Handbook
A crowdsourced handbook collects detailed practical information on how to address the currend outbreak of COVID-19.

Self-Employed people help self-employed people
Self-employed people offer free courses for other self-employed people.

A platform helps to connect to self-help groups
A platform helps citizens to connect with local self-help groups and to issue a call for help in an emergency.

Daily challenges for children
A WhatsApp channel helps parents in a neighborhood to exchange ideas for new activities with their children.

Online pub quizzes
Pub quiz fans can continue their hobby online from the comfort of their home.

An urban crowdsourcing platform for mutual aid
To connect those who offer help and those who need help, the City of Linz created a crowdsourcing platform.

Italian chefs provide online cooking tutorials
To help people to prepare healthy meals in times of short supplies, several chefs took action and provide the general public with easy recipes.
A government’s call for the general mobilisation of solidarity
Faced with the coronavirus epidemic, the French government calls for solidarity among citizens to support the most vulnerable groups of society.

Regional youth platform
The municipality of Reggio Emilia created a new section on its website where young people can find local online projects and services.

App for finding suitable volunteer work
The Swiss “Five up” app offers easy access to suitable volunteer activities.

Structuring a digital work day with others working from home
FNF MENA structures their day with digital check-ins at the beginning and end of each day and now they are inviting everyone to join in.

Library service as reliable source of information
Tallinn librarians offer an individualised information service on Covid-19, based on reliable sources.