The Association Brings Together the Actors of Third places in their diversity, in order to define the actions to be carried out and to carry out the needs of the movement on a national and international scale.
The 4 key missions of the association :
- Promote the societal transformation actions carried out by Third Places to build the ecological, economic and social transitions of today and tomorrow.
- Build and animate spaces for resources and exchanges that promote the development of Third Places and partnerships with other actors of change.
- Coordinate projects at national and European level, where new ways of doing things together are experimented.
- Pooling collective services for all third places and the networks that support them in the territories.
These missions take the form of:
- advocacy actions, in order to better finance and better ensure the existence of third places as essential tools for fair and sustainable transformation, throughout the territories.
- The production of guides and studies: such as on access to land, well-being at work in Third Places, food democracy with Nourishing Third Places.
- Leading working groups: on the legal and economic consolidation of Third Places, or on themes such as health, culture, food, distributed manufacturing, solidarity, the commons, etc.
- A collective civic service approval for more than 150 Third Places;
- The management of national projects: for example, to support social landlords in Third Place approaches, or to consolidate or develop actions for ageing well in Third Places, to better understand the Third Place approach in Europe and to create links between countries.
- Consolidating interactions with public institutions