This progamme t ECON with five member organisations from Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia and Hungary were engaged in a Partcipatory Action Research process where they documented the stories and organizing practices of campaigns with local groups and communities on different issues and learned  how to use storytelling and public narrative in their organizing practice with their communities. This is part of ECON’s contribution to documenting and sharing the history and practices of community organizing in Europe, and expanding the know-how on organizing from Europe, as so far it had been mostly based on  practices from the US.

Community organizing is an approach that empowers citizens to take collective action on the issues in their context. So far, most of the organizing know-how has been based on good practices from the US. In the past years, the European Community Organizing Network (ECON) has been supporting the development and documentation of organizing practices and experiences in Europe together with member organisations in Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia and Hungary that use organizing in their work with groups and communities. This project is an example of documenting and developing organizing practices in Europe