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What we do

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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Open call

RCT + TAB 2024 Summer School: Common Water Bodies

RCT (Researching Common Territories) Summer School: September 6 – 15, 2024,In the frames of the Tbilisi Architecture Biennial 2024.Location: Anaklia, Georgia.

News & Events

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News

10 Jul 2024

Open Call: Global Week to Act for Sustainable Development Goals 2024

Mark your calendars for 20-29 September and join the Global Week #Act4SDGs, a global initiative to support the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

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News

We are launching the media project “Because of Them: The History of Ukrainians”

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News

17 May 2024

In solidarity with Georgian civil society

This Tuesday, May 14, the Georgian parliament adopted a controversial law on foreign influence, despite the many thousands of people protes

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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

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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