COLLABORATION FOR JUST AND EQUITABLE FUTURE
#ParticipatoryChange #MultilevelJustice #SolidarityEconomies #CollaborativeGovernance
Collaboration among people, communities, social movements, institutions, and public and private sectors is essential for building a just and equitable future. It involves not only cooperation between individuals and collectives but also the creation of transversal, multilevel, and cross-sector governance frameworks that enable shared decision-making and the co-construction of collective visions across territories.
This perspective unfolds in multiple domains where justice, sustainability, and daily life converge. Food systems reveal how equity, ecological balance, and cultural identity can be aligned through participatory and context-based approaches. Energy communities demonstrate how citizens and institutions can work together to manage resources, promoting autonomy and ecological transition. Inclusive housing initiatives, meanwhile, highlight the potential of inter-institutional collaboration to guarantee the right to dignified and sustainable living spaces.
These and other experiences — from local mobility and education to cultural and environmental cooperation — demonstrate that collaboration operates at many scales: from everyday practices to policy design, from grassroots innovation to institutional transformation. Together, they challenge extractive logics and open pathways toward just and equitable futures.
We invite contributions that explore experiences, models, and theories of reciprocity, cooperation, social and solidarity economy, and sustainability emerging from territories, to collectively reflect on how collaboration — in its community-based and systemic dimensions — can become a concrete driver for just and plural futures.
We welcome submissions that address (but are not limited to) the following themes:
Collaborative and Multilevel Governance for Transformation
Governance frameworks connecting institutions, civil society, and territories across scales.
Participatory and deliberative models enabling inclusive and shared decision-making.
Co-design and co-production of public policies fostering transversal collaboration.
Grassroots innovation and social movements driving institutional and systemic change.
Integration between bottom-up initiatives and policy frameworks for adaptive governance.
Innovative governance models for the management of ecosystems and natural resources.
Social Justice, Basic Rights, and Plural Futures
Inclusive housing, mobility, health, and education systems ensuring equitable access to essential rights and services.
Participatory and community-led initiatives fostering dignity, care, and collective well-being.
Intersectional and decolonial approaches linking social justice with ecological transition.
Rights-based and capabilities frameworks supporting diverse and equitable futures.
Solidarity and Community Economies
Economic models based on reciprocity, cooperation, and collective well-being.
Social and solidarity economy initiatives and alternative finance systems.
Food systems as drivers of equity, cultural identity, and ecological transition.
Community-centred development and local value re-embedding.
Fair trade, ethical supply chains, and food–energy–water nexuses.
Degrowth and post-extractive approaches to sustainability.
Community energy initiatives and energy democracy.
Cultural Cooperation and Environmental Justice
Collaborative cultural and artistic initiatives fostering dialogue, memory, and territorial identity.
Heritage preservation and intercultural exchange for collective and ecological resilience.
Environmental and climate justice movements connecting social, cultural, and ecological rights.
Community-based natural resource management.