§ Contribution from your perspective
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What do you want to contribute to?
Living together, restoration and learning need different people and skills. Choose the role that fits you and discover which questions we could investigate together.
§ Choose a perspective
From which role do you view this work?
Several roles may fit. The main page gives the wider account.
§ Before you choose
Cooperation with a shared purpose.
We seek people and organisations who want to contribute to social and ecological value. This may need knowledge, time, skilled work and resources.
We discuss openly what you bring and what you need. Clear expectations help sustain cooperation.
Choose a perspective to read further.
§ From a researcher’s perspective
Investigate together what works.
For researchers who want to investigate practical questions about shared living, nature restoration, decision-making or the local economy carefully.
What comes into view
Practice as the starting point
Work at Sulitânia began in 2023. The cooperative is winding down the previous site and seeking a new place. The experiences can raise research questions, but are not a complete or validated dataset.
can help connect sources, decisions and experiences. For research, we establish which information is available, its quality and its limitations.
What federation work offers research
Develop a question together
We want research that is meaningful to participants too. Discuss the question, method, commitment and feedback before the work begins.
Access to participants, sites and internal records requires separate agreements. No existing consortium position, recognition or visiting research placement is promised here.
Honest limits
Which agreements are needed?
Practical experience and scientific evidence are different things. Research needs an appropriate method and assessment of data quality.
Record consent, privacy, usage rights and participants’ expected contribution. Results must be fed back with care.
First step
Read about SYFERS at /research/syfers. Explain your research question through /contact?from=research and we can discuss what is possible.
Cooperation begins with understanding what each person wants to contribute and needs. We want to build social and ecological value, with clear agreements and room to learn.
Read the wider account at /contribution, the current stage at /status and the federation’s explanation at /about.