Welcome to the Bioregional Weaving Labs (BWL) Collective
It’s our mission to mobilise 1 million changemakers to restore, protect and regenerate 1 million ha of Europe’s land and sea by 2030.
A growing bioregional collective
The Bioregional Weaving Labs (BWL) Collective is a growing collective of system-changing social enterprises, changemakers, places, NGOs, universities, funders, and impact investors, initiated by a ‘Backbone Team’ of Ashoka, Commonland and supported by partners like OpEPA and The Weaving Lab.
From bioregion to systems change
A Bioregional Weaving Lab (BWL) is an orchestrated, geographically grounded, multi-stakeholder partnership process with key local change leaders and system players, to enable transformative change towards regeneration on a bioregional scale.
Connecting people, projects & places
Together with trusted, local partners, we form Weaving Teams, whose primary focus is to connect people, projects and places around a joint vision and mission in their bioregions.
To date, 18 Weaving Teams are convening key Change Leaders and system players in 11 countries: Austria, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Spain, and Switzerland.
Our Theory of Transformation
“Systems change requires multiple dimensions of change, worked on by multiple actors that come together in an aligned, synchronized way to create critical mass and tipping points. A Theory of Transformation is made up of multiple Theories of Change, being implemented by multiple organizations and actors at different levels.”
— Michael Quinn Patton
To realize our mission, together with our partners we created a Theory of Transformation consisting of 6 strategic pathways — as interconnected challenges require entangled approaches.
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