Second Renaissance / Ecosystem

Cohere+: Cohering the Ecosystem of Paradigmatic Social Change Organisations in Europe

A three-year EU Erasmus+-funded initiative mapping and strengthening European change agents working on whole-systems, integrative approaches to societal transformation.

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Overview

Cohere+ was a three-year initiative (2022–2025) co-funded by the EU Erasmus+ programme, led by Life Itself in partnership with Emerge, Ekskäret Foundation, the Institute for Integral Studies (Freiburg), and The Hague Center for Global Governance, Innovation, and Emergence.

The project aimed to map the European “transformational change” field, engage with agents to build community and coherence, and develop the collective capacities of change agents working toward regenerative, cohesive societies.

Partners

  • Life Itself (lead)
  • Emerge
  • Ekskäret Foundation
  • Institute for Integral Studies (IFIS), Freiburg
  • The Hague Center for Global Governance, Innovation, and Emergence

Publications

  • Emergent Power: Key Challenges and Capacities for Paradigmatic Change Agents (2024)
  • Communities of Coherence: A Guide for Practitioners (2024)
  • PIP Mapping — paradigmatic, integrative, and pragmatic changemakers (2021–2022)
  • ORA Polycrisis Mapping — organisations responding to the polycrisis, global south focus (2023)