Partners & Projects
Regenerant Catalunya is a collaborative effort that bridges local and global – reflecting the cosmo-local ethos that knowledge and resources should circulate globally, but action is grounded locally. This multi-stakeholder approach combines local knowledge with global Web3 expertise to channel resources into Catalonia’s regenerative projects.
Partners & Stakeholders
Program Coordinator
ReFi Barcelona (ReFi BCN)
ReFi Barcelona is the collective coordinating Regenerant Catalunya. We are a cooperative in formation, being incubated by and housed at Bloc4BCN, one of Europe’s major cooperative hubs. Our role is to serve as the connecting tissue between local regenerative work and global Web3 infrastructure, ensuring blockchain tools serve real community needs rather than speculation.
Website: refibcn.cat
Contact: [email protected]
Local Partners
For Regenerant Catalunya, two Catalan organizations are anchoring the effort and co-funding the round:
Miceli Social
A cooperative service hub within the social economy focused on rural resilience. Based in Ripoll (Girona), Miceli catalyzes regenerative development in rural areas by supporting municipalities and community groups. They have helped identify several candidate projects for this funding round and contributed €6,000 to the matching pool. Miceli’s involvement ensures the round is grounded in the needs of Catalonia’s territory, tapping into ongoing efforts around ecological transition in rural comarcas (counties).
Contribution: €6,000 matching pool + rural project curation
Website: miceli.social
La Fundició / Keras Buti
A cultural and social innovation cooperative and official hub within the Xarxa d’Ateneus Cooperatius, based in L’Hospitalet de Llobregat in Barcelona’s metropolitan area (Catalonia’s second most populous municipality and one of Europe’s densest). La Fundició / Keras Buti has committed €5,000 to the matching pool and invited projects from its networks—e.g., neighborhood initiatives around community spaces, cooperative housing, and cultural heritage. Their involvement brings a strong urban and peri-urban lens, linking the urban commons to a bioregional perspective; since 2006 they’ve run collective processes of knowledge-building and cultural practice, reimagining art and education as tools for feminist economics and local resilience.
Contribution: €5,000 matching pool + urban project curation
Websites: lafundicio.net | kerasbuti.org
Global Partners & Funders
The international sponsors backing Regenerant Catalunya represent some of the most socially-engaged communities in the blockchain space:
Regen Coordination
Role: Global Partner
A global alliance weaving together local regenerative finance experiments into a coherent movement. It organizes decentralized funding rounds and toolkits that channel resources into ecological and community projects worldwide. Regen Coordination is leading the Local Funding Programs track in Gitcoin Grants Round 24.
Website: regencoordination.xyz
Celo Public Goods
Role: Global Funder
Celo is a blockchain ecosystem designed for climate action and financial inclusion. Its Public Goods program supports regenerative initiatives that link digital finance with ecological and social impact, making money work for people and the planet.
Website: celo.org
Gitcoin
Role: Global Funder
The leading Web3 funding platform for public goods, having distributed over $60M using mechanisms like quadratic funding. Gitcoin enables communities to directly fund projects they care about while amplifying individual contributions through matching pools.
Website: gitcoin.co
Ethereum Foundation
Role: Global Funder
The main steward of Ethereum’s open-source ecosystem. By sponsoring localism experiments, it supports applying Ethereum tools — from wallets to governance — in real-world contexts, proving their value for civic life and regenerative economies.
Website: ethereum.org
Participating Projects
Regenerant Catalunya unites a diverse cohort of 10-12 local projects (11 confirmed) under one funding umbrella. Projects were scouted and invited by our partners based on proven regenerative commitment and openness to learning. These projects exemplify the network-driven approach described in our Theory of Change, showing how trusted local partners (Miceli Social and La Fundició/Keras Buti) have identified exemplary projects within their networks.
Projects invited by Miceli Social
Regeneració.XYZ - Communicating Regeneration
A creative agency at the intersection of art, regeneration, and rural narratives. Born out of a community project in La Garrotxa, Regeneració is crafting new narratives for regeneration through artistic expression. They have been recognized by Culture Hack Labs’ Rhizome program as a pioneer in bioregional community governance.
Resilience Earth & Simbiosi Fluvial - Bioregional Governance & Digital River Stewardship
Resilience Earth is a worker cooperative working on bioregional governance and digital river stewardship. Resilience Earth has been working for years with more than a hundred municipalities across Catalonia, co-designing democratic public policies rooted in bioregional governance. Building on this deep track record, the organization now seeks to take a step further by experimenting with novel technologies to enhance ecological decision-making.
Through the Fluvià River project, they want to apply blockchain and AI systems to improve environmental data collection and analysis, creating a digital infrastructure that can feed directly into governance processes for the river basin.
De Bat a Bat - Community Health
De Bat a Bat is developing a regenerative model of community health that is holistic, participatory, and rooted in nature, supported by Erasmus+ and LIFE funding. They collaborate with health centers, schools, and associations, and aim to expand into therapeutic leisure and holiday programs for rural patients.
Chapter#2 - Education & Art
This initiative brings regenerative storytelling into schools, helping them recover their link with place and co-create artistic figures celebrating each school’s identity. The process aims to heal past traumas and reveal the regenerative potential of educational communities.
Anigami - Regenerative Tourism
Anigami is advancing regenerative tourism models in Catalonia, combining Erasmus+ funding with a training program in regenerative tourism to be shared with Balkar.Earth’s learning community.
Mixité - Rural Housing
This initiative is designing new policies and strategies for rural housing, offering support services for municipalities and community groups. They plan to publish a manual documenting their process to make it available to the wider ecosystem.
Projects invited by Keras Buti
Laurel 31 - Textile sustainability & neighbourhood creativity
Laurel 31 is a space for textile creation and production guided by principles of environmental sustainability and political thought.
La Marmita - Community food systems & cooperative health
La Marmita, based in the La Florida neighborhood, seeks to implement a system for producing low-cost, healthy, and ecological meals using thermopol cooking technology. La Marmita is managed by the consumer cooperative Keras Buti.
Les Juntes - Cooperative Housing and Urban Regeneration
Les Juntes is a cooperative housing project under a “use-right” model (cesión de uso in Spanish, not perfectly translatable). Its aim is to recover housing currently held by investment funds in the northern area of L’Hospitalet de Llobregat, in order to guarantee the right to secure housing through collective and shared ownership structures that resist the commodification of a good that should ensure the housing sovereignty of local residents.
La Suculenta - Food sovereignty & social inclusion
La Suculenta is a community dining initiative at the Casal Cívic Comunitari de Bellvitge. It focuses on offering affordable meals prepared with ecological and locally sourced ingredients, while also providing hospitality training and employment opportunities to people who have suffered violations of their fundamental rights.
La Granja del Tilo - Agroecology & generational renewal
La Granja del Tilo is a worker cooperative running an organic egg farm in the Parc Agrari del Baix Llobregat. The initiative works to ensure generational renewal in farming by creating structures that support young farmers and recovering agricultural land in the Delta del Llobregat. Its goal is to resist urban development pressure and preserve the agroecological systems of the delta.
Projects invited by ReFi Barcelona
To be confirmed
- Fundació Emprius
- Arran de Terra
- Decolonizing Permaculture
Note: These projects are pending confirmation. The final cohort will include 10-12 projects total.
Selection Criteria
The project scope reflects a broad regeneration definition: from ecological restoration and community projects to regional civic innovation and educational initiatives. We prioritized projects involving ecological restoration and community empowerment that could be good testing cases and benefit from the use of the web3 tools for impact we are promoting. We explicitly avoided profit-driven businesses, maintaining community-centricity, cooperative approach and public-good orientations to ensure cohort coherence.
A Two-Way Bridge
For local partners, Regenerant Catalunya offers not only new resources and visibility, but also a hands-on opportunity to shape how these global tools work in practice.
For the global sponsors, it’s a two-way street as well: a chance to learn from Catalonia’s rich tradition of cooperativism and environmental activism, and to embed their technology in real communities striving for resilience.
This collaboration embodies the cosmo-local approach: knowledge and resources circulate globally, but action is grounded locally.
Learn More
- About the Program - What is Regenerant Catalunya
- Program Timeline - Complete timeline and milestones
- Resources - Tool documentation and guides