Urbana and the Heinrich Böll Foundation’s project “Ioannina: Bridges of Participation” focuses on women and LGBTQ+ people whose needs in the city have been neglected. This publication captures the experience from the aforementioned project as well as the collective experiences in the city from a gender perspective, offering a framework for practical and political action.

This valuable business tool helps social solidarity economy initiatives in a simple and analytical way to understand their values and their position in the market, to realise their problems, to evaluate their situation and to plan their prospects. This practical guide includes three volumes: 1. on social value, 2. on economic sustainability and 3. on the strategy of an initiative.

This publication presents a project that was implemented in Samothrace (January-December 2021), in order to contribute to the democratic activation of the local community and to support the co-planning of a proposal for the island's future.

A collective study that includes basic concepts on the subject, presentation of international and Greek experience, information on the institutional framework, tips etc.

This publication analyses and compares the provisions of each law for the different categories of cooperatives and presents certain proposals for a new legal framework aimed at unifying Greek cooperative law, as urgently recommended by international and European Organisations and Cooperative Associations.

What processes led to the formation of the new institutional framework for the Social Solidarity Economy (SSE) in Greece? What did stakeholders and collectives say during the public consultation process? What is finally in place today? What failures can be identified in the law? Is there room for the co-design of public policies for SSE in Greece?

This is a small handmade publication, a zine, that frames and expands through words, colours and images the podcast series "Losing Time", about time, work and their entanglements. It is a mosaic composed of extracts from the podcasts, texts written in digital notebooks by listeners and material created in the context of two workshops in Athens and Thessaloniki in the spring of 2023. This publication is a creative reformulation of all the above material.

What are the cooperative residences? What is collective ownership? How do these ideas address our current housing problems? How can we initiate such a project in Greece? What are the challenges and what resources are available? What are the examples from other countries that could inspire us? These are some of the questions that this collection of information material, guides, and inquiries about housing cooperation in Greece aim to answer. 

This study, a collaboration between the Heinrich Böll Foundation, Thessaloniki Office - Greece and the HARTA research group, investigates issues related to housing and among other things brings to light the overlooked issue of homelessness in small towns.

What is affordable housing and why is it needed? What is the situation in Thessaloniki today and what are the possibilities for the city, according to other good practices?

The digital edited volume titled “Composing Visionary Narrations for the Social-Ecological Transformation” compiles the edited versions of the presentations given by the participants during two workshops co-organized by the Heinrich Böll Foundation - Thessaloniki Office and the Transdisciplinary Institute for Environmental and Social Studies [TIESS] in Thessaloniki. The workshops focused on the topics of Social Solidarity Economy and the Commons, as well as Degrowth and the Universal Basic Income.

The Sustainable Urban Development Strategies (SUD strategies) is a major EU project that aims to transform and improve European cities so that they can respond to the various challenges they face. What does the SUD strategies include? How are they developed? What are the specific provisions for the cities of the Region of Central Macedonia? And to what extent have they succeeded in involving citizens?

The Guide for the Creation of Social Enterprises aspires to fill a gap in information about the nature of a social cooperative enterprise and offer information for the practical problems that face those interested in the creation of social enterprises. 

This study reflects and evaluates the current institutional framework for combatting gender discrimination in Greece by focusing on the laws voted by the Parlement in recent years concerning the protection of the rights of victims of gender violence, especially women, as well as the basic rights of the LGBTQI+ community where Greece lagged far behind other European countries.

The European Energy Atlas shows a clear alternative: It not only provides a compass on the different energy discussions in different Member States but also reveals how a Europeanization of the energy transition will be the more efficient and cost-effective option for all Europeans.

Examining the anti-Semitism phenomenon in Greece in the 21st century is based on the observation that post-Auschwitz anti-Semitism has not been eradicated neither in Greece nor in the rest of Europe, but is instead rising as evidence from recent studies show.

Overview of Lignite in Greek energy system, data and challenges for the transition to a post-lignite era and the utilising of the wealth of renewable sources in the country.

This report has been initiated by the rise of extremist right political parties and movements of various guises in Greece and in other EU member states, which has been recorded after the European Parliament elections in May 2014. Although there are undisputed differences among parties and movements characterised today as “extremist right”, at least in regard to their political discourse and their practices, their common denominator, on which they can be compared, is the total adherence and reproduction of the ideology of inequality – or better yet, of inequity- of people, and hence the discrediting and rejection of their difference.

The international conference "Sustainability and Culture: Sustainable Cultural Management" took place on 19 and 20 April 2013 in Thessaloniki, Greece and was organised by the Goethe-Institut Thessaloniki, the Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung Greece and the European theatre network Mitos21. The conference was intended to shed light on yet another aspect of a very fertile perception of contemporary reality; sustainability.

Die Hoffnung, in Libyen, Algerien oder Europa bessere Lebensbedingungen zu finden, treibt jede Woche mehrere tausend Menschen nach Agadez, Wüstenstadt im Niger und aktuelles Drehkreuz der westafrikanischen Migration. Agadez lebt davon.

Der Hotspot Moria auf der griechischen Insel Lesbos hat eine Aufnahmekapazität für 700 Personen, ist aber tatsächlich mit rund 3.500 Personen belegt. Die hier Angekommenen bleiben in der Regel zwischen 25 Tagen und zwei Monaten.