RCE Grand Rapids-2016

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1. Project Title: 
Project Cooperative Co-Power (new)
2. Thematic area/s addressed by the project
Select your options: 
Other
Other (please clarify) : 
social component of sustainability focused on workplace
3. Project partner contact information : 
Organization: 
Aquinas College
Role: 
Concept development
Main Contact: 
Michael Lorr
Name: 
same
Affiliation: 
Aquinas College
Email: 
mjl005@aquinas.edu
4. Project type
Select the relevant type for your project: 
Bridging local and global perspectives on SD
Enabling policy formulation and/or institutional change
Contributing to capacity development of stakeholders and partners
5. Project description
Provide a short description of the project including strategies, regional challenges, aims and specific project activities.: 

An initiative to address the social components of sustainability to educate about possibilities of participatory budgeting, strategies to democratize worklife, housing and other areas...similar to the model offered by Mondragon Cooperative in Spain.

6. Project status
In Planning
Description: 
Dr. Lorr wishes to pursue this initiative in 2017.
8. Tagging
Region: 
Americas
Tags (choose up to 5): 
Cities
Community Education
Jobs & Economic Growth