Projects
Through political organizing, advocacy and public-civic partnerships, we aim to create structural changes to enable the new economy to flourish
Designing for Collectivity
The Designing for Collectivity project focuses on developing a digital education platform and expanding a network of students, teachers and […]
Cities Beyond Growth
(The course ended in November 2025) Cities Beyond Growth is an adult education program that demystifies postgrowth concepts and translates […]
Digital Infrastructure for the Community Economy
What if digital technology could support the development of a locally-rooted, social economy in the city of Amsterdam? Together with […]
Digital Commons Unpacked
MeentCoop: The incubator for the Community Economy
Commons Network is always looking for new ways to activate the commons. That’s why we’ve launched MeentCoop, together with a […]
Postgrowth Pan-European Network
About the project Commons Network has established the Postgrowth Pan-European network which brings together Members of Parliament, trade union representatives, […]
Community Wealth Building
What’s the project about:How do you democratise the economy? How do you ensure that the value people create together stays […]
Money, debt, and postgrowth
Many of the societal challenges we face today find their roots in our current monetary and financial system. Debt-based monetary […]
Code of Conduct for Data Sharing in the Social Economy
Europe’s social economy spans a diverse range of businesses and initiatives. Data-driven social enterprises—such as health data cooperatives, platform cooperatives, […]
Municipalist Skill Share Podcast Series
Over the last year Commons Network led the peer-to-peer exchange space of the European Municipalist Network (EMN). EMN is an informal […]
Interparliamentary Workgroup for Post-growth
More and more people are realizing that a growth-oriented economy is ecologically unsustainable and socially undesirable on the long run, […]
Human Stories of Digital Transformation
What’s the project about: With Human Stories of Digital Transformation, Commons Network aims to further the idea of online spaces […]
Article series: Responding to Degrowth Critics
‘We need growth to eradicate extreme poverty.’ ‘We need growth to fund the energy transition and invest in public health’. […]
Fearless Cities: Cities for Change
From 2019 tot 2021 Commons Network was a core member of the municipalist thinktank ‘The 99 of Amsterdam’, a node […]
Book on Degrowth, Health and Caring Commons
Much of our world is organized around the imperative of economic growth, so much so that we’ve come to believe […]
Public-Civic Spaces Online
Just like we need public and civc spaces offline, we need them online. The organisation of digital space has become […]
