N.E.W. LOOPS is a Portuguese non-profit organization based in Algarve since 2014. It aims at creating a network of change-makers and establishing a participatory educational platform that can lead to social, environmental and personal transformation.

The association intends to propose practical solutions, adapted to both rural and urban areas, making it possible to match the satisfaction of people's needs and the preservation of the ecosystems, and to stimulate a new social and territorial dynamic based on the values of solidarity, freedom and sustainability.

NEW LOOPS operates in an area (Algarve, South Portugal) strongly impacted by the financial crisis of 2008 and to the depopulation due to precarious, seasonal and low-paid working conditions and where mass tourism and intensive chemical agriculture dramatically threat the environment, especially along the coast. It therefore aims at supporting social and environmental regeneration, leading to permanent changes and eventually to a more sustainable future. It is looking for solutions to turn human settlements into healthy ecosystems and provides training to people so that they can take action.

Thanks to its transdisciplinary team, NEW LOOPS applies diverse methods such as non-formal education, permaculture techniques, visual and performative arts, social and environmental research. Through the organization of local training courses and workshops and its active participation in European projects, it enables people to come up with innovative solutions to tend towards sustainable living.

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