Projects

The Activersity curriculum is based on modules covering activism philosophy, history of activism, group decision-making, fund-raising, and more. Beyond lectures, students have access to articles, videos, and podcasts. Writing assignments encourage students to explore beyond the presented material.

Our Residence program entails fellowships which include room-and-board in the Schwaz10 building, are available for students who wish to develop practical skills by working on a real project under the aegis of the Activersity.

You did not choose your neighbors. The only reason they are your neighbors is that some agent of capitalism chose them because they were suitable for capitalism. Community was no priority in this process.

We host events like “Open Box Day,” Kitchen-for-All, Clothes Swaps, and the like. Host with us, learn from us, or copy our projects in your neighborhood.

For any living community, how chores are distributed/performed is a source of friction. How do we know that everyone is doing a fair share of the work? Who gets assigned which tasks? Who decides what is fair?

The “Task Auction” and the “Wahlbörse” were conceived as a single system to answer these questions while providing maximum flexibility and transparency.

In the first few weeks of the war in Ukraine, NGOs like the Red Cross caught by surprise and were not in place. All humanitarian work was being done by volunteers. We arrived at the start of the second week. We were occupied with taking medical supplies from Poland into Ukraine. Once these were delivered at a secret depot, we went to the Lviv’s main train station, which was flooded with refugees who had no means of crossing the border into the EU. We brought as many as we could to the border, which was often a night-long process. We distributed hot drinks to people unlucky enough to have to wait outside.

Once international NGOs had set up operations, we returned to the EU. This experience would later turn out to be the birth of the Activersity Project.