Organization for the Interconnection of Nature and Societies
Connecting people, knowledge and nature for sustainable change.
OINS supports smaller, often rural and underserved communities, municipalities and organisations by connecting local knowledge, practical experience and wider networks around sustainability challenges.
Curiosity. Connection. Creation.
Why OINS exists
Knowledge and opportunity should not depend on where a community is located.
Smaller and often rural communities can face the same sustainability challenges as larger cities while having less access to expertise, networks and resources.
OINS was created to help close that gap — not by developing solutions for communities, but by working with them. We connect local and indigenous knowledge with scientific evidence, practical experience and wider networks so that solutions can be shaped around real local priorities and circumstances.
How we work
From connection to practical action.
Connect
Bring communities, municipalities, practitioners and organisations together across regions and contexts.
Support
Help partners analyse challenges, develop projects and translate ideas into practical action.
Share
Turn experience, evidence and project learning into knowledge that others can adapt and build upon.
Interconnected challenges need interconnected approaches.
Climate adaptation
Water governance
Biodiversity
Human–nature relations
Food security
Inequality
Across places and perspectives
Curiosity. Connection. Creation.
OINS digital platform
Turn shared experience into practical collaboration.
SustainConnections helps communities, NGOs, municipalities and practitioners describe real needs, find relevant experience, connect with peers and collaborate without losing the local context that makes a practice meaningful.
Get involved
Bring a challenge, a practice or a perspective.
OINS is building a network of communities, municipalities, NGOs, researchers, practitioners and supporters who want to learn from one another and develop practical sustainability solutions together.
Work with OINS
For communities, municipalities and organisations looking for project or advisory support.
Use SustainConnections
For organisations ready to share needs, practices and collaborative learning.
Partner with us
For researchers, experts, funders and organisations interested in collaboration.