The housing struggle is also rural
Without affordable housing and land outside the market, there can be no agroecological transition
Building communal culture
What drives us
Our objectives
The Foundation is guided by two great principles: communalism and ruralism.
- We acquire and provide housing for community projects
- We steward productive land
- We promote shared tools useful for rural life
How we do it
Lines of action
Heritage management and stewardship
We receive donations and inheritances to acquire assets that we provide to community projects in rural areas. The projects that steward these properties follow Emprius values and have positive social and ecological impact in their territory.
Fostering and promoting communalist culture
We defend community and communal management as a fairer and more transformative approach to stewardship that allows us to move towards fairer degrowth. We support communities and conduct research and outreach on these communal principles.
Shared tools
We are building a catalogue of useful tools distributed across rural Catalan territory, for agriculture, ecological building and self-building, and making it available to collaborative projects.
Get involved
Be part of it
Emprius community
Many people are making Emprius possible; you can check out our community. Would you like to be part of it?
Would you like to participate in one of our working groups? Would you be up for doing outreach and bringing information about Emprius to your area? Are you an expert in an area of interest to Emprius and would like to be part of our advisory council? Do you have strong ties in your area and think you could help Emprius get a project off the ground as a territorial ambassador?
Members and donors
Do you want to strengthen the commons in Catalonia and have assets or economic resources you’d like to make available to the project? Would you like to become a member and help make Emprius possible with an annual contribution? Do you know people with resources who might be interested in being donors to a project like this?
Donations to Fundació Emprius are tax-deductible: 80% on the first €250 and 40% above that (45% from the third consecutive year).
Beneficiaries
The Foundation’s beneficiaries are the collectives that steward the assets, land and infrastructure and carry out the projects that give Emprius its meaning.
If you’re part of a collective that would like to present a stewardship project, send us your proposal!
Who this is for
The collectives behind Emprius
Mas Les Vinyes
Sant Martí d’Albars
Can Tonal
Sant Antoni de Vilamajor
Can Parera
Sant Pere de Vilamajor
La Tomassa
Campins
Cal Cases
Santa Maria d’Oló
Our blog
Articles and news
You can now watch “Fem cumó, un altre camí” online
After more than 30 screenings of the documentary across various territories, in community centres, assemblies, village festivals, fairs and film festivals…
28 November in Olot: the third Sentit Comunal congress
After the first edition in Vic and the second in Berga… we’re announcing the third edition of the Sentit Comunal congress!
Events this autumn
Screenings of the documentary “Fem cumó, un altre camí” are planned in Santa Margarida de Montbui (l’Anoia), Cànoves i Samalús (Vallès Oriental), Poble Nou…
[Presentations and report] “Communal assets today” conference at the UB
Presentations with slides from the talks available here:
FESSrural 2026: 31 July and 1 August in the Solsonès
The 7th Festival of the Social and Solidarity Economy in rural Catalonia will take place on the last day of July and the first of August at El Miracle (Riner), in the Solsonès.
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