# THE:PLACE
# 2nd Round Projects
The project aims to strengthen the capacity of cross-cultural actors within immigrant communities and build social, institutional, and organizational foundations for a future immigrant solidarity cooperative in Istanbul by transferring knowledge from Italian experiences.
Images from project implementation stage
The project focuses on co-designing a strategic framework for a cooperative model that supports immigrant and refugee integration and development. It implements a capacity-building program for cross-cultural actors—such as creatives, community leaders, and civil society members—drawing on Fo.Co’s experience in Cosenza. Additionally, the project transforms an existing boxing club in Istanbul into an integrated community hub, including a community kitchen and shared spaces, to host activities and strengthen connections within immigrant communities.
▼ Project Outputs
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Urban.Koop – İstanbul
Urban.koop (Urban Studies Cooperative) is a non-profit cooperative; a collective network of independent urban practitioners. It provides a network where innovative urban policies, strategies, designs and practices are collectively created by sharing social resources. Primary methodology in Urban.koop’s work is building bridges between independent experts and different strata of civil society, academia and local governments. Urban.koop’s project approach is based on institutional participation where we aim to build collaborative institutional bridges between global resources and local policy makers by providing human resources for the local, collaborative work opportunities for the creative class and network for the civil community.
Formazione e Comunione Società Cooperativa Sociale Onlus – Fo.Co, Cosenza
The non-profit social cooperative “Formazione e Comunione” (Fo.Co.) aligns its statute with the principles outlined in the United Nations Charter and embraces the ethos of Civil Economy. Its mission is to promote universal brotherhood through the pursuit of social rights, subsidiarity, and solidarity. Fo.Co. focuses on providing educational services, Italian literacy programs, linguistic/cultural mediation, and social and legal assistance to foreign unaccompanied minors, asylum seekers and refugees. Additionally, it engages in social project planning, seeks regional, national, and European funding opportunities, develops project proposals, establishes partnership networks, and manages administrative tasks for project implementation and reporting. Moreover, Fo.Co. designs and delivers training interventions aimed at fostering community development and empowerment.
▼ Municipalities
This section shows the local authorities collaborated & involved in the project’s development process.
