Solidarity accomodation

Solidarity accomodation means that someone offer others a place to sleep for free. Of course, this happens spontaneously between friends and relatives. But we will also try to link people that don't know each other, in order to facilitate for the partipants of the forum.

We need your couch!

European Social Forum is an meeting place for movements wanting to make another Europe possible. Around 20 000 persons will participate, and many of those will travel to Malmö from abroad. That's why we are now looking for people living in Malmö, who would like to host participants during four nights, from the 17^th to the 21^st of September 2008.

A central idea is that personal encounters is crucial in our aim to change the world. Solidarity accomodation is a way of forming such personal contacts. This kind of accomodation has previously been arranged during the forums in Athens and Paris. Of course it should also be possible in Malmö! Our goal is to find at least 1000 places in solidarity accomodation.

This is how it works:
- People who can offer accomodation fill in a form. The same applies to persons who is looking for accomodation. Then we will match the suggestions and connect hosts with their guests.

- In the form you can indicate how many places you can offer, and of what kind (eg. a bed, sofa, hammock, inflatable beds...)

- We dont offer any payment for the places, but host will pay a cheeper entrance fee when visiting the forum (only 10 euros, compared to the regular fee of 40 euros).

- You get the chance to meet new people, and contribute to the forum

Convinced? Subscribe here!
(And if you want to help out more, please mail us at accomodation@esf2008.org!)

Do you need somewhere to stay?

When matching the solidarity accomodation we will give priority to interpreters, volunteers and participants supported by the solidarity fund. Once these needs are covered, we will start open a form for requests for solidarity accomodation for other participants.