Commonspace Co-op

Through NeCoWo, we are launching a Community of Practice on EPALE to collectively map the socio-cultural competences needed in gentrified and vulnerable neighbourhoods. 🌱✨
Join us to share experiences, challenges and skills from practice — and help make community knowledge more visible. 🏘️🤝

Discovering the skills we need:
Mapping socio-cultural competences in gentrified & vulnerable contexts.

Communities across Europe are changing fast.
Gentrification, inequality, fragile social fabrics…

In these contexts, cultural work is never neutral.

That’s why, within the NeCoWo project, we’ve launched a Community of Practice on EPALE.

We start from a key question:
What skills do socio-cultural workers really need today?

Let’s map this together!

We’re not proposing a fixed framework.
We’re building it collectively.

Join us and share your experience:

— What skills have been crucial in your work?
— What was missing in your training?
— How do you avoid tokenistic participation?
— How do you balance institutions & community care?

You can share:
- a situation
- a challenge
- a skill you had to learn on the go

How to join EPALE (step by step)

Go to 👉 https://epale.ec.europa.eu

Click “Join EPALE” (top right)

Create your EU Login (or sign in if you already have one)

Complete your profile

Search for the NeCoWo Community of Practice "Communities learning from the neighbourhood"

Join the group & start contributing

Over the next months we will:

— connect experiences across Europe
— identify shared challenges
— co-create a competence map
— turn it into learning resources

Not to standardise practice, but to make existing knowledge visible.

We learn from practice.
We learn from each other.

👉 Join us on EPALE.



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⏳ Only a few days left to have your say!

💧 Water is becoming one of the defining challenges for the future of our cities.

How can we better manage floods, droughts, heatwaves, and water scarcity? How can we transform our urban areas into places that work with water, rather than against it?

These are some of the questions at the heart of the Partnership — a collaborative initiative under the European Urban Initiative and EU Urban Agenda, bringing together 23 partners from across Europe.

CommonSpace is proud to contribute to this collective effort. Together, we have developed a Draft Action Plan with 7 complementary actions covering urban planning frameworks, innovative financing, stepwise digitalisation, knowledge sharing, monitoring, and community engagement — all aimed at supporting European cities in becoming more resilient, sustainable, and water-sensitive.

📣 The public consultation closes on 11 June 2026 — don't miss your chance to shape the future of Water Sensitive Cities in Europe!
📅 Deadline: 11 June 2026, 16:00 CEST
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