Our purpose is to identify projects that have positive impact on local communities. These can be new business models that aim to empowering the most vulnerable, or p r ojects that enforce the social cohesion between interfaith groups, alleviate the social injustice or environmental projects.

The selected projects will be part of the MetaSociety program that aims to showcase the best practices in the target cities.

MetaSociety projects will benefit from a larger exposure and an experience sharing thanks to their replication in our network.

Examples of MetaSociety projects that we intend to replicate include:

1.Project title 'The Walk of Faith'
Project birth place: Liverpool
Objective - Interfaith social cohesion
initiative created in Liverpool by Dr. Shannon Ledbetter with the support of the Interfaith Council
Project to be replicated in Istanbul.

2. Social investments projects
Poject birth place: Cape Town
Objective - Interfaith social cohesion
Initiative created by Uthango SIS
Project to be replicated in Gudalajara.

3. Project Title Growing Up in Cities programme.
Project birth place: Guadalajara
Objective -children aged 8 to 16, in collaboration with students in architecture, landscape architecture and urban planning, evaluated their neighbourhoods and propose physical transformations to improve outdoor spaces. The collaborative process made it possible to understand how children perceive and use their neighbourhoods, to increase children's environmental knowledge and skills, and to introduce students to participatory design.
Initiative supported by UNESCO
Project to be replicated in Liverpool.

4. On long term run, our ultimate goal is generate funds to replicate in our target cities the concept of Katina, the African medical Research and Development Foundation (Amref) development project, conducted in partnership with Barclays and The Guardian. The project aims to improve the lives of the 25,000 people in Katine sub-county in Uganda. (read more - Katine)

Among other MetaSociety projects is the participation in the fundraising on a £2.5m project to restore Britain's first mosque. The derelict grade II listed Georgian Brougham Terrace in Tuebrook is to be transformed into a heritage and education centre. The project is a tribute to Liverpool lawyer William Henry Quilliam, who converted to Islam after visiting Morocco in 1887 and changed his name to Abdullah Quilliam.