About

A Dutch foundation for collaborative Earth stewardship

Stichting Cocreate Earth gives institutional form to work that connects ecological purpose, governed collaboration, and public-interest innovation.

Legal form

A Dutch non-profit foundation (stichting), structured for public-interest work, research, grant readiness, and institutional partnerships.

Ecosystem role

The foundation holds the public-interest side of a wider ecosystem that includes Cocreate Earth, CCE Labs, Cocreate Earth Network, I Am The Earth, and Startup.Earth.

Stewardship, not control

Its purpose is to provide legitimacy, continuity, and governance without turning distributed collaboration into a top-down organisation.

The institutional anchor

Cocreate Earth Foundation (Stichting Cocreate Earth) is a Dutch non-profit foundation. It exists to support collaborative Earth stewardship: the work of helping people, organisations, communities, and emerging technologies coordinate better around ecological and social challenges.

The foundation is especially aligned with SDG 17: partnerships for the goals. Its work focuses on the conditions that make partnership real: trust, governance, shared learning, transparent evidence, and the ability to coordinate across different people, cultures, organisations, and technologies.

A public-interest home

The foundation can hold activities that need a legal and institutional home: research, publications, funding preparation, partnerships, and programmes that should be governed for public benefit.

It is connected to a wider family of initiatives:

  • Cocreate Earth — the broader field of collaborative intelligence for sustainable development.

  • CCE Labs — a programme for developing, testing, and sharing methods for collaborative intelligence.

  • Cocreate Earth Network — a distributed coordination layer for partners, practitioners, communities, and hubs.

  • I Am The Earth — the deeper identity and public-engagement orientation behind ecological stewardship.

  • Startup.Earth — venture-building work for ecologically grounded initiatives.

Foundation versus programme sites

This is the foundation website. It should stay institutional, clear, and concise.

Dedicated programme websites can carry deeper operational detail. For example, CCE Labs will have its own site for its full programme architecture, while this website carries only the foundation-level summary.