Anna Lindh Foundation

Recomate AB - Action Research Centre for a Resilient Society

National Network

Sweden

Address

Thorild Wulffsgatan 1441319 GöteborgSweden

Country

Sweden

City

Göteborg

Street address 2

Thorild Wulffsgatan 14

Telephone

+46 70-628 62 00

E-Mail

sari@actionresearch.se

Year of Establishment

1988

Contact Person1

Sari Scheinberg

Job Title 1

Action researcher, innovator and activist

Organisation Type

Private Company

Fields of Activity

Democracy and community development

General Information

Recomate AB is a company dedicated to the creation of social innovation with a special focus on well-being, human rights, integration and sustainability- locally and internationally using action research as main driver. Recomate is based in Gothenburg, Sweden and has over 30 years of experience in driving change, development and innovation programs around the world. It recently launched the creation of an Action Research Centre for a Resilient Society as well as the Energy Lab and Program for Well-Being.

Mission and Objectives

We aim at enhancing awareness, relations, and creating conscious ways of working, learning and innovating to improve the resilience and cooperation of individuals, cross- generation relations, communities, organizations and eco/innovation systems.
We use action research methodology with a diversity-sensitive and participative approach.
Our work is interdisciplinary and builds on competence in gestalt and organizational psychology; well-being, human rights and integration; quality, change and technology management; teaching, leadership and policy for sustainability.

Main Projects / Activities

Recomate and its Action Research Centre for A Resilient Society have special competence in development of diversity-sensitive change and development tools, models, methods and instruments needed for assessing and developing: well-being at individual level, conscious ways of working, relationship building and social contracting, culture and platforms for collaboration.

Past and ongoing projects linked to Anna Lind Foundation’s mission are:
-       Inner to Outer integration program for long-term unemployed and long-term sick leave migrants in Sweden
-       EI WISH- Well-being, Human-Rights & Integration workshops and stakeholder collaboration in Sweden
-       EI WISH - Action research re: Aging as a migrant from a cross-cultural, generational, sectoral and religious perspective; collaboration with migrant, minority and religious associations from Afghanistan, Iraq, Eritrea, Iran, Somalia, Roma, Syria, Armenia, Woman Center in Sweden
-       'Roma Inclusion' program in Sweden, UK and Hungary
- Innovative Universities program in Central America, South America, Vietnam, India, Brazil, China, South Africa