Les lauréats de l’Appel à projets «Local & Together 2021» sont connus!

In 2020, the Brussels-Capital Region launched the second edition of Local&Together. This call for projects aims to set up collective projects led by traders’ associations and other local stakeholders in their commercial district. In the end, 31 projects were selected!

The Local & Together call for projects is part of the Brussels Government’s recovery plan to help Brussels businesses. Its objective is to maintain and strengthen a local commercial fabric through two categories of projects set up to respond to the needs or difficulties faced by the users of a district.

1. The “support for traders’ associations” category to boost collective dynamics in the largest number of commercial districts in the Brussels Region;
2. The “support for innovative projects” category to support innovative and pilot projects on a district scale.

Focus on the 31 projects supported this year

In the “Support for traders’ associations” category

The cargo bike

Located in the commercial district on rue Vanderkindere, the ASBL Quartier des Artisans wishes to provide, through this project, a fast, sustainable, efficient and shared service to customers and traders, by setting up a delivery system by cargo bike within the district.

Monsieur Mégot

Supported by the Association des Commerçants du Quartier de l’Hôtel de Ville de Saint-Gilles, in collaboration with traders, owners, the municipality of Saint-Gilles and Editions Dupuis, this project aims to set up urban ashtrays that will be accompanied by amusing and educational signage.

Discover St-Jac

Supported by the Quartier Saint-Jacques association, this project invites visitors of all ages to stroll through the streets of the district, with family or friends. The walk is accessible by smartphone.

The Art&Food event @The Bascule

The objective of this project led by Rivoli Brussels is to install several pop-up spaces in the Bascule district and its surroundings for two days, to offer activities that combine art and gastronomy. Local stakeholders, chefs and artisans will be present, inside contemporary art galleries.

La Petite Suisse Estivale 2021

This project aims to set up a cultural, sporting, informative and festive event that allows the inhabitants of Ixelles and Brussels to discover the Petite Suisse district through concerts, sports courses, soft mobility workshops and even stories for children.

Books and Foods

The Association des commerçants du Carrefour Jean Monnet wants to give the European district a less institutional image through this project, which aims to highlight the diversity of its venues celebrating various aspects of European culture, such as its literature, gastronomy, music and lifestyle,… while trying to bring together different stakeholders, who will create new links and new dynamics.

Design Brugmann

The ASBL Place Brugmann offers to create a dynamic for the district and its shopkeepers through this cultural project based around design, with a guest country in the spotlight. The many actions planned include a design trail in the public space, a scenography of the public space, the theme of the country of honour highlighted by the decorations in the public space and businesses.

The “Part-vit”

The Union des Commerçants d’Uccle Centre, with more than 100 members, is planning to organise a mini-festival called “Le Par-Vit”, aimed at making the shopping district visible again. The programme includes a gastronomic trail, a waitress and waiter race, shared tables, concerts, a raffle and a treasure hunt.

“Social” terrace

The ASBL Shopera has around 50 members (shopkeepers and owners) wishing to revitalise Brussels city centre. Through this project, it aims to create a bucolic setting with an outdoor terrace, vegetation, a space for storing bicycles and dimmed lighting where activities/events could be organised.

We are the landscape

The ASBL Quartier du Rideau, located in Ixelles, brings together shopkeepers, a theatre and an associative partner. Its project involves organising a district party to bring together neighbours and passers-by around several activities planned using local expertise, such as group singing, clapping, artistic performances and various workshops.

Revival of trade in Berchem

With this project, Berchem Shopping wants to increase the visibility of shops by creating friendly links and organising various festive events such as urban aperitifs that bring together traders and their potential customers.

Bamboo cups

This project, led by the Association des commerçants Pacific, consists of offering recycled and reusable bamboo cups and conducting an awareness campaign to reduce plastic waste.

Winter Windows 2021

For a beautiful end to 2021, the ASBL Quartier Dansaert organised a route on the theme of dreams, entitled “Winter Windows”; it follows the decorated windows of the local businesses and aims to make people laugh and dream.

Stralend Stockel Village

The association’s project aims to set up working groups and information sessions, so that people can think together about improving the district, especially in terms of waste management, the creation and maintenance of green areas, awareness of cleanliness, etc.

Play Green Together 2

These are games intended primarily for children and organised by various local stakeholders such as shopkeepers, members of sports clubs, those involved in the associative sector, residents, etc., offering activities such as table tennis, giant draughts, archery, climbing, etc.

Spring Festival

The Spring Festival, organised by the Association de Commerces du Quartier Bascule, is a distribution of nectar-producing plants by the members of the association to their customers and the residents of the Bascule district.

Light on Plux

The aim of this project, led by Adelux, is to provide each trader with a “Communication Pack”, which will include a photoshoot, a sponsored and targeted advertisement and help in setting up a communication strategy.

Christmas Market

Located in the Cavell district of Uccle, the ASBL Cavell Village, with more than 40 active members, puts on a Christmas market that aims to be a meeting point for users of the district and their local businesses.

Louise Village goes green

The ASBL Louise Village, located in the rue Jourdan, rue Jean Stas and Dejoncker districts, wants to make these districts green by adding floral compositions.

Commercial brochures

Berchem Shopping, which represents the shopkeepers and independent traders in the municipality of Berchem-Ste Agathe, wants to create a media, which centralises all the shops, self-employed traders, liberal professions, companies and artists and would be distributed in the mailboxes of the municipality.

Local Currency

The Monnaie Locale (local currency) project aims to create an alternative currency that promotes local consumption. This currency, Paduwa, is distributed through a contest organised during a district party.

George Henri Delivery

Through this project, the traders of the Georges Henri district want to organise a delivery platform to support local commerce and allow the less mobile to take advantage of the local offer.

Collaborate Sustainably

The association has a project to support businesses in the Maritime District of Molenbeek:

• to set up a district survey to determine the existing offer, the delivery possibilities, the potential diversification of businesses and the perception of sustainability of the merchants and users of the district
• to analyse the results of this survey, with the help of students
• to establish a charter around the results of the survey to support the transition of local businesses

Totem Parvis-Schweitzer

Via the project Totem Parvis-Schweitzer, Berchem Shopping, which represents the shopkeepers and independent traders of the Berchem-Ste Agathe municipality, wants to install a high signpost called “Totem” to inform people about the presence of the Parvis and the “Place des Sources”, including pictograms of the type of shops found there.

Local beer

The De Wand Center association, which brings together some 20 businesses, aims to create a district beer that would be designed by traders, customers and residents. It will be initially distributed on the shopping street before being sold in restaurants, cafés and grocery shops in Shopping De wand, then ultimately distributed throughout the Brussels-Capital Region.

Break Together

The association des Commerçants du Centre Commercial Basilix aims to strengthen the understanding of the Basilix Shopping Centre’s traders through the “Break Together” project, which proposes bringing them together in a friendly, pleasant place using recycled furniture.

Launch of the ACPL association

The ACPL is an association of more than 60 retailers and 15 professionals. The aim of their project is to unite traders and professionals and create a link with other partners in the district.

In the “Support for innovative projects” category

Waste management

The project of the ASBL STALEM aims to improve the management of waste in the Midi-Lemonnier district by:

• optimising sorting by traders through training;
• collaborating with residents, associations and businesses in the district to improve reuse; promoting waste recycling.

This project also proposes the pooling and recovery of waste.

Crockery in Commun-Be-Here

The Association of traders – Dieudonné Lefèvre represents the district of the Rue Dieudonné Lefèvre and, with its project, wants to create a shared crockery space for all the traders in and around Be-Here, allowing a drastic reduction in packaging.

For a sustainable takeaway service at our Centre’s restaurants

Through this project, the ACPL, a recent asbl of the Centre de la commune de Woluwé-Saint-Pierre, is proposing to the district’s restaurant owners the use of reusable, practical and unique tableware to decrease the amount of waste caused by takeaway services. To do this, the association will seek to acquire a set of crockery.

PAP-Gateway of Anderlecht Propre

The ASBL L’Avenir du Faubourg de la Porte d’Anderlecht is proposing a solution to the problem of cleanliness in the district based on two areas:

• the introduction of pooled waste management (pooled collection)
• The beautification of pavements and the foot of trees (awareness and small-scale development proposals).