Cinergies (2026)

Cinergies is a Greek social cooperative founded in mid-2016 whose purpose is to create and support alternative narratives to foster equitable and sustainable pathways.

09/08/2026

Before the August break, we wanted to return to one of the highlights of our summer: the BEAT-ROOTS Youth Exchange in Sicily.

At the turn of June and July, young people and youth workers from Greece, Spain and Italy spent a week living and learning together. The programme moved between percussion, outdoor activities, encounters with animals, environmental learning, reflection and the ordinary work of sharing space and everyday responsibilities.

What connected these very different activities was inclusion. BEAT-ROOTS is built around the idea that youth work can create spaces where people with different backgrounds, experiences and ways of communicating are able to meet, participate and gradually build trust and community.

At a moment when tensions and divisions are becoming more visible across Europe, these spaces matter even more. Inclusion, intercultural dialogue and solidarity are not only values to discuss; they are practices that need places, time and people willing to experience them together.

The photographs here are a small record of that week: the Sicilian landscape, horses and outdoor learning, shared moments around the farm, drumming under the trees and the collective energy that finally reached the village square.

Lorena was directing the small BEAT-ROOTS documentary together with our production team. More soon.

Thank you to .palermo, , the facilitators and everyone who took part and made the exchange what it became.

We will return after the summer break with the next steps of BEAT-ROOTS. Until then, we wish everyone a peaceful and restorative August. ☀️

BEAT-ROOTS – Cultivating Connections for Inclusive Societies is co-funded by the European Union through Erasmus+.

06/08/2026

Artificial intelligence is rapidly changing how images, films, stories and social media content are produced. For young creatives, this transformation brings extraordinary new possibilities—but also real uncertainty about skills, authorship, working conditions and whether creative careers will remain accessible, sustainable and meaningful.

Through InnoLAB 2.0, five organisations from four European countries joined forces to explore how this transition can serve people rather than push them aside.

, , Productions, BCN and ATH brought together virtual production, circular design, youth work, social communication and hands-on experimentation. Across local workshops and shared production activities, we tested how emerging tools can be made more accessible to young creatives, social organisations and communities working with limited resources.

Each partner contributed a different part of this shared laboratory:

🎥 Cinergies led the virtual-production workflow and coordinated the final campaign production.
📣 Maghweb connected the work with social communication and dissemination.
🎧 Productions tested and adapted the methods for youth work and young people with fewer opportunities.
♻️ Transfolab BCNexplored circular audiovisual production, reuse and waste reduction.
🛠️ Transfolab ATH/ C.H connected makers, sustainable design and practical experimentation.

The final two-day production in Athens brought these strands together in a new campaign examining the anxiety, pressure and opportunities young creatives experience in the AI era.

This is not only a conversation about technology. It is a conversation about who will have access to creative work, who will benefit from automation, and what kind of cultural sector we are building for the next generation.

The campaign and the open InnoLAB 2.0 Wiki are coming next.

How is AI changing your creative work—and what do you need in order to have a future in it?

Project partners:
Cinergies · Maghweb · Autarcie Productions · TransfoLAB BCN · CoLab House

Co-funded by the European Union through Erasmus+.

02/04/2026

Over the past days, we came together in Athens to explore something simple but powerful:

How do we tell stories together in a world that feels increasingly fragmented and on its way to self-destruct?

Through a collaborative Writer’s Room process, participants from different countries brought their own realities, experiences, and perspectives into one shared space. Instead of starting from a single narrative, we started from context — from what people live, feel, and struggle with — and slowly built a common story world.

What emerged was not one story, but a network of stories.
Different voices, different timelines, different viewpoints because complex realities cannot be told in one way only.

This seminar was not just about storytelling.
It was about:

* listening across differences
* making sense of contradictions
* finding ways to hold multiple perspectives without reducing them
* Incorporating Ai without sacrificing our creative processes

In times where narratives are often simplified or polarized, this felt necessary.

The final story reflects that complexity — moving across countries, characters, and layers of experience, while staying rooted in shared tensions and questions.

📸 Swipe through the moments from the process
📖 Soon you will be able to explore the story in our profile page

🙏 This activity was supported by the Erasmus+ Programme and the Greek National Agency ΙΝΕΔΙΒΙΜ

03/02/2026

🐝✨ Our first Bee Woman workshop just wrapped — and we are deeply grateful to Αστική Μελίσσα and the Greek Forum for Migrants for their incredible support in making this possible.

This is more than just a training session. It’s a small but real step toward resisting a wider, darker reality.

In a time when xenophobia, racism, and extreme-right narratives are on the rise, migrant communities — especially migrant women — are too often pushed into invisibility. At the same time, women’s rights are being eroded, and economic precarity only makes these inequalities worse.

This project is a response. A modest one, yes — a drop in the ocean — but one that aims to contribute by offering:
🌱 Knowledge
💪 Vocational empowerment
👥 Community
🐝 And the chance to build something together, sustainably.

Through beekeeping and social entrepreneurship, participants imagine new ways of surviving and thriving — for themselves and their communities.

🧠 There's more to come:
→ You can still join our beekeeping workshops for migrant women in Athens!
✍️ Just fill out the registration form in our profile or
https://forms.gle/eRkffjt2A2j8gyim6

🌍 All this will lead to a final trip to Palermo for selected participants and the creation of an e-learning platform in multiple languages, so that this knowledge and care can travel further than borders.

We’re proud to be part of it. And we’d love to have you with us.

#ΚοινωνικήΟικονομία #Μελισσοκομία #Εκπαίδευση

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