Live together. Restore. Learn.
Connected to the challenges
of our time.
Syntrociety aims to help develop places where people take responsibility together, restore their surroundings and learn from practice. The work began at Sulitânia in southern Portugal. The cooperative is winding down its work at the previous site and looking for a new location.
Policy frameworks ask the same questions in different ways: how do we restore nature, keep regions liveable, make room for learning and build an economy that supports people and places?
This mapping places our aims alongside selected UN goals, European frameworks, and Portuguese and regional themes. These connections are our interpretation of possible contributions. Concrete results require a baseline, a measurement plan and evaluation.
Policy connections give the conversation direction. Practice must show what works. Alignment with policy does not grant permission or a right to funding. Those questions have their own conditions and procedures.
The value that flows from this for other layers of the ecosystem is set out at Contribution.
§ 02, The four scales
From global goals to regional ground
Four scales offer different perspectives on the same question. Each theme sets out the policy aim, our possible contribution and what could be investigated.
United Nations
Twelve SDGs
The UN goals provide a shared language for food, wellbeing, learning, nature and cooperation. We select twelve goals relevant to the intended practice of Labs. The FAO elements of agroecology help explore the connections between ecological and social questions.
European Union
Five frameworks
The Green Deal, Farm to Fork, the rural vision, New European Bauhaus and open, responsible research offer different points of connection. We describe how they relate to our aims and the questions their implementation raises.
Portugal · national
Eight priorities
Innovation, regional development, energy and a sustainable economy are relevant to Portuguese policy. The eight themes on this page are our way of organising possible contributions; they are not an official list of eight eligibility criteria.
Algarve · regional
Seven goals
The regional strategy and Algarve 2030 programme offer connections with economic diversification and sustainable development. Seven themes make the intended contribution of Labs and the questions for research more concrete.
§ 03, Published by the federation
Heal the
System.
- Format
- Editorial longread
- Sections
- 12
- Sources
- 30+
- Method
- Sulitânia × Claude (Anthropic)
- Status
- Living document
An analysis of the connections between social and ecological questions , inspired by living systems.
Heal the System explores historical patterns, feedback loops and possible principles for restoration. It offers an interpretive framework with sources and hypotheses. Sulitânia’s experience provides a starting point for further research; it does not prove the analysis as a whole.