PROJECT - TGS Concert & Culture

Social Trade Organisation (STRO) develops innovations to strengthen micro credit and local economies. STRO tests its innovations in pilot projects with complementary currencies and circuits of exchange between producers and consumers. These projects improve the access to credit and markets, stimulate entrepreneurship and enhance the outcome of environmental projects (e.g. biofuels).

The focus of STRO’s methods is to encourage the circulation of locally available purchasing power with the aim to create a healthy and dynamic local environment as the basis for further socio-economic development. A protective environment is created at the local and regional level in which new entrepreneurs and economic activities have the opportunity to develop, unhindered by world market competition and artificial money scarcity. The most successful of these entrepreneurs will become exporters. Those who do not have this potential can focus their skills and talents on the local and regional market and, some of them may use this environment to grow towards the outreach of the world market.

STRO promotes a sequence of complementary currency systems that fits to the different levels of social and economic organisation. Each of these have clear limits wherein the benefits outweigh the disadvantages.