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H2020 gE.CO Living Lab
gE.CO Living Lab aims at creating a platform for bringing together and supporting formal groups or informal communities of citizens who manage fab-lab, hubs, incubators, co-creation spaces, social centres created in regenerated urban voids.

H2020 CO3 project
The project aims at building an analytical framework for studying the potential benefits and risks of new disruptive technologies and their potential to foster the co-creation, co- production and co-management of open public services.

Solidarity School
Groups of teachers in collaboration with local grassroots collectives kicked off solidarity school-tutoring, demanding the use of local schools for this function or holding solidarity classes in local social centres.

Curing the limbo
The “Curing the Limbo” project capitalises on Athens’ vibrant civil society to help refugees and the local unemployed to overcome the stage of inertia.

Metadeftero.gr
As Open Lab we want to explore the motivation for radio usage from social movements and use the radio broadcasting setting as a space for participatory design.

Synpraxis.tech: A Digital Commons coalition
We participate in Synpraxis, a digital commons coalition in Greece bringing together teams from different backgrounds to work together on promoting digital commons as well as share experience, skills and projects.

MediaLab
OLA is interested in mapping Medialab’s activities, both in theory and in practice so as to understand how grassroots processes are transferred and crystallized into institutional practices and methodologies that facilitate citizenship participation in innovative ways.

Oral history group of Social Clinic at Helleniko
OLA members were volunteering in different working groups of a major social clinic in Athens when they were asked to facilitate an internal group, made up from volunteers, that would ‘write’ the clinic’s history.

Kalomathe.gr: A learning platform for the Social Solidarity Economy
An educational platform aiming to support the spreading of the Social & Solidarity Economy in Greece