European and International Actors, Practices & Research
For Sustainability
Identity-Genesis
APREIS is a nomadic and networked international laboratory based on a numerical platform. Created in September 2003 by the French non-profit NGO 
which provides a civil laboratory for local sustainability research and action
Nature. Object
– An intergenerational, interdisciplinary, interprofessional, intercultural civil scientific laboratory aiming at research – training – action – achievement to implement sustainable global development through an interactive and partnership-based approach
– A transversal source of information, proposals, initiatives, studies, projects and achievements to implement local sustainable development
Focus-Theme
– Imaginaries, cultures, organizational forms and modes of governance
– Industrial ecology, circular economy, eco links, renewable energies
– Ethical investments, sustainable enterprise, solidarity economy,
– Fair trade, sustainable tourism
– Global and local prevention of climate and environmental risks
– Intercultural dynamics, regional solidarities, decentralized international cooperation
– Community development, local democracy for responsibility, local complementary currency
Principles
– Spacial, generational, social, cultural, disciplinary and professional decompartmentalization
– Interactional creativities
– Global approaches and local contextualities
– Ethics for common good, citizenship, egality of rights, personnal responsibility and cooperation
– Human engineering, popular genius and social innovation
Actions
– Conceptual, technical and pratical research
– Cross circulation and multilingual transfer of knowledge and abilities
– Partnership-based design and implementation of sustainable local development projects
– Promotion of self-expression and involvement of young people and women in general
– Vertical rise of climbing the civil society proposals
– Public and private decision-making assistance
