Community Currency In Action

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The CCIA aim is to transfer diverse and regionally dispersed knowledge relating to the design. development and application of community currencies (CCs) in a variety of contexts through cooperation. co-working and effective communication. The goal of this transfer is to provide for the innovative development of a centralised. formalised and empirically driven set of tools that can be picked up and used by various governmental and non-governmental actors at a community level. and that provides a rigorously tested package of support structures. By doing so. the concept of community currencies will energise citizens and communities. making them more inclusive and prosperous. and local economies more resilient and environmentally sustainable. CCIA will make communities more attractive; improve business climate; strengthen the economic and social performance of cities. towns and rural areas. Our project objectives are: 1) Implement CC demonstrations. to strengthen communities and deliver positive social. environmental and economic outcomes in a range of localities across the NWE region in 3 years (WP1) 2) Deliver clear guidance on the role of the government and transformation of public services. and create a common set of recommendations for local implementation (WP2) 3) Create basic conditions for a sustainable infrastructure needed for implementation. taking into account differences in rural/urban. and in CC-methodologies (eg. loyalty. time-points) to enable reproducibility (WP3) 4) Promote CCs as credible vehicles for achieving social. economic and environmental outcomes. and clarify the chances. opportunities and benefits for other communities to enable CC uptake (WP4)

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