The Entretantos Foundation is a non-governmental, non-profit, statewide organisation dedicated to promoting knowledge, research, par- ticipation, mutual
learning, collective construction and networking. Although the preparations for this birth took almost a year, with a notable exercise of prior reflection, the Foundation was formally constituted on 15 May 2012 and has been registered in the Register of Foundations of the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Environment since 15 October 2012, in accordance with the provisions of Law 50/2002, of 26 December, on Foundations, and in the Regulations on Foundations of State Competence, approved by Royal Decree 1337/2005, of 11 November. Thus, in 2022 the Foundation will be 10 years old.
MISSION
entretantos aims to actively promote and foster the full incorporation of social participation, collaborative strategies and networking in socio-economic activities and public policies related to land, sustainability and environmental management:
- Bringing together organisations, groups and professionals working in the field of intervention and social innovation, education and participation, to explore together new strategies useful for the development of initiatives and projects.
- Researching and proposing ways of collaboration that facilitate and strengthen the cooperation of the different sectors involved in each of the areas of work in which we operate.
- Favouring channels of contact and cooperation between entities and people who work or have an interest in each of the areas of intervention of the foundation: agroecology, extensive livestock farming and pastoralism, common, participation, geo and biodiversity.
- Promoting training and capacity building in participation, education, innovation and social intervention.
- Working with the administrations, the social fabric and/or economic agents in the development of new initiatives for social participation and intervention, the consolidation of existing ones and the improvement of the resources made available for these processes.
VISION
The Entretantos Foundation aims to become a benchmark organisation in terms of participation, education and collective construction in the field of the relationship with the territory and the people who inhabit it:
- Playing an important role in the transition towards more sustainable food systems and promoting research, the development of city-region strategies and networking projects in this field.
- Actively contributing to the defence and support of extensive livestock farming and pastoralism, as indispensable tools for the maintenance of the rural environment, traditional knowledge and the landscape and the conservation of bio-diversity linked to systems of high natural value.
- Working to deepen and improve the role that the commons and commons play as key formulas for improving the management of the collective in all its areas.
- Improving the working strategies and methodologies necessary to achieve more effective citizen participation in public policies and in the collective construction of new projects and visions.
- Deepening the development of new initiatives and best practices in the field of biodiversity and land conservation and environmental management.
- Promoting new projects and approaches in the fields of social innovation, research-action, participation, education and communication applied to the areas of work and objectives of the foundation.
