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About coopera e. V.

Coopera e. V. fosters horizontal civil society cooperation, interdisciplinary and translocal knowledge exchange, and empowerment in the times of Russian invasion in Ukraine. We work in the areas of decolonial solidarity, (queer)feminism and anti-racism, arts and urbanism, sustainability, media (in exile), and political education.

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News

October Newsletter from Coopera e.V.

Come to our upcoming Community Gathering in Berlin on October 9! |

Summer Newsletter from Coopera e.V.

Insights from two of our culture-focused projects: reflections from the NCNTP project (2022–2025) and an update on the events and publications from Decolonising Solidarities. |

Youth Action Lab— Open Call 2025

28 July – 10 August, MoldovaApplication deadline: 30 June | What is Youth Action Lab?Youth Action Lab is a 2-week summer school and grassroots opportunity program that brings together young changema

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Areas of Work

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Advancing media in times of uncertainty

Emergency support and resources for news-rooms and exiled media professionals.

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Civic education

Fostering youth participation and media literacy

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Decoloniality, anti-racism & queer feminism

Lectures, workshops, exhibitions, residencies, reading groups and other formats of ideas exchange.

Monitoring & Advocacy

Shadow reports and promotion of civic engagement to implement Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

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Arts & Urbanism

Research and educational programs, exhibitions, civic engagement in urban development

Projects

Civic Education

Apr 2024 - Dec 2025

YouthLink

A Georgian-Ukrainian project of youth education

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Arts & Urbanism

Researching Common Territories

What does it mean to share a physical border? What kind of spaces emerge where various countries and their inhabitants share borders?

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Arts & Urbanism

re:imagine your city

international design lab for cross-disciplinary urban practices of transformation

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Decolonial Solidarity & Queer Feminism

feminist translocalities is a project and network aimed at supporting decolonial queer feminist initiatives in and from Central and Eastern Europe, Caucasus, and Central and North Asia (CEECCNA region).

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Open Calls

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RCT + TAB 2024 Summer School: Common Water Bodies

Application deadline

20 May 2024

The school's main focus is to explore water as a shared resource in the northwestern Caucasus region of Svaneti, Samegrelo, and Abkhazia, which are connected and separated by the Enguri River.

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