Transition is Buinho's area for sustainability, regeneration and community resilience.
Repairing instead of throwing away, turning waste into materials, experimenting with biomaterials and caring for the territory's resources — with the people of the region, from schools to seniors in the villages, and with partners from across Europe.
Repair
Repair Cafés with Resialentejo across its eight municipalities, with senior volunteers repairing alongside participants — Alentejo Repair Community received the Best Volunteering Project Award 2024.
In Europe, we brought repair communities from cities to rural areas (WeRepair), worked on the right to repair and citizen participation (RE-POWER) and set up rural eco-clubs for adults (RECA). In ABRI, repair reaches sewing, with the Messejana club.
Circular economy
The Precious Plastic lab turns plastic waste into sheets, parts and objects. With young people from seven countries, the Precious Plastic project brought community recycling and digital fabrication together in Messejana and received the Erasmus+ Good Practice label.
Biomaterials and food
Mycelium, food waste and local fibres as raw material: in Materia Viva, young people from Corsica and Alentejo turn food waste into materials and products for the community; SUBSTRACTO takes biomaterials from the lab to the artist residency and the territory.
In Future Food Labs, food cultures and green goals became future-oriented learning activities.
Water and territory
In a territory short of water, technology can also help care for it. In Gota d'Água, young people from Mediterranean regions built sensors and smart irrigation systems in Castro Verde — Erasmus+ Good Practice label.
All of Buinho's projects — ongoing and completed.
23 projects since 2016, with partners from 19 countries besides Portugal.
A consortium of school clusters in the Beja district, coordinated by Buinho, that takes teachers to learn from European schools and centres.View project →Ongoing
Rural young people from Alentejo and Extremadura measure the environment they live in and compare their realities.View project →OngoingRepair Café marathons in the eight Resialentejo municipalities. National volunteering award in 2024.View project →Ongoing
Training for youth workers and youth exchanges in Baixo Alentejo, every year, under the Erasmus+ Youth accreditation. 2022 project awarded the Good Practice label.View project →Ongoing
European volunteers in Messejana, under the European Solidarity Corps Quality Label.View project →OngoingYoung people from Corsica and Alentejo turn food waste into materials and products for their communities, through biofabrication.View project →Ongoing
Students measure how school feels — light, noise, crowds — and design with their teachers spaces where everyone can feel at ease.View project →Ongoing
Repair culture brought to young people in three rural European FabLabs — with an open guide for youth workers.View project →Ongoing
Sewing, digital fabrication and care — the Messejana sewing club in a European partnership.View project →StartingRight to repair through citizen empowerment — attracting, training and keeping Repair Café volunteers.View project →Food cultures and green goals, through future-oriented learning activities.View project →
Rural eco-clubs for adults — repair, biodiversity and digital tools in three countries. Erasmus+ Good Practice label.View project →Repair communities brought from the city to the countryside, with seniors as volunteers.View project →
Six organisations from five countries studied the FabLab as an adult learning space. Erasmus+ Good Practice label.View project →
A creative hub bringing non-formal education into schools — a European good practice case, with School Cluster No. 1 of Beja.View project →Young people from water-scarce Mediterranean regions build sensors and smart irrigation systems in Castro Verde. Erasmus+ Good Practice label.View project →
Citizen sensing brought into youth work — 42 participants from seven countries measuring pollution in their territory.View project →
Biohacking, bio-art and biomaterials in an exchange for young people with fewer opportunities — European diversity seen through DNA. Erasmus+ Good Practice label.View project →Community plastic recycling and digital fabrication with young people from seven countries, in Messejana. Erasmus+ Good Practice label.View project →
Biomaterials and mycelium between the lab, the artist residency and the territory.View project →OngoingArt, sensors and inclusive learning to map what we cannot see in the places we live in.View project →Ongoing3D-printed tactile models to learn science with your hands.View project →OngoingEuropean training for youth workers in digital storytelling with vulnerable groups — one of Buinho's first Erasmus+ participations. Erasmus+ Good Practice label.View project →No projects match this filter.