REScoops rely on groups of citizens who join together and cooperate at a local level in the field of renewable energy. Relying on bottom-up and collective dynamics, REScoops face the challenge of engaging citizens and multiple stakeholders in the organizational creation and development processes.

Solar and wind projects can mean big bucks for communities – but only if they keep them local!

A Report on a Commons Strategies Group Workshop Berlin, Germany August 27-28, 2014

Combined European Bureau for Social Development was founded in Swansea 1990. The aim was to facilitate joint projects and applications in the European context and to organize more systematic exchanges between national community work organizations and to promote community development on a European level.

This information sheet is part of the Tailor-Made series, which aims to share evidence about the difference the community sector makes to our lives.