Many regions of Europe urgently need the success of a sustainable economy to make the regions crisis-proof, to stabilise the local authority districts, to offer perspectives and to create jobs. Migration and decline must be stopped, marginalisation and poverty fought, inclusion and equal opportunities be guaranteed. The Food movement arising in many European municipalities offers an interesting perspective here.The SIGNAL project (Social innovations of sustainable land use oriented to the common good) concentrates in particular upon municipal and regional added value before this background, in particular in a regional recycling economy under the aspect of the food system. New potentials should thereby be opened, the attraction of the regions increased, its dependence on global commodity flows reduced and its resilience be increased. The focus is on sustainable approaches of regional economic management oriented to the common good. It is about exchange and interlinking of these new approaches of regional cooperation and social innovations. These new cooperation approaches pick out as a central theme on the one hand urban and rural cooperation stronger than up to now and on the other hand indicate the possibilities of a higher resistance of the regions for the purposes of resilience. Here, resilience is understood as a claim to future viability. The knowledge - extending across national boundaries - about approaches of regional production and marketing oriented to the common good that are presently emerging at many locations, often sustained by active citizenship, should be promoted with the SIGNAL project and be made beneficial for the different regions of the partner countries.The SIGNAL project builds on the educational activities of the five participating partner organisations as well as on to two constructive and successful joint partnerships (Grundtvig and Leonardo). As educational institutions and consultation facilities, all partners work together on the question of how an environmentally and socially sustainable development can be coupled with solution approaches for structurally weak regions. Three project meetings for the exchange of good practise are planned. The partner institutions will take part with people directly linked to the organisation. In addition, respectively at least five representatives of regional economy initiatives in the regions in which the meetings take place will be integrated. The gist of SIGNAL is the exchange of good practise on community-oriented, cooperative strategies of regional management and a better interlinking of the educational partners as well as the networks active in this subject area. The second result will be the development of an educational component and other materials. The training course module will complement a jointly compiled training course offer (Curriculum). This Curriculum has stay and return prospects for the rural area as its content. All partners and initiatives have specific knowledge, contacts and different perspectives on the subject from the viewpoint of their regions which are presented and discussed during the exchange visits. At individual level, the employees involved of the partner organisations and initiatives have the possibility to learn from the exchange of good practise. The participants not only get to know more about their own and other European regions. They also experience the general effect of an international exchange program which creates a better understanding for other cultures / people from other European countries. Transnationalisation will not be the goal, but a tool to achieve the common goal. A stronger we-feeling will originate, and the desire to build and improve the Community in the local and regional projects as well as greater self-confidence. The realisation of a common problem, approach and solution, also leads to a better understanding of European identity.The effects can be measured via the use of the products developed as well as the exchange with the partners about the effects of the project and its products. An effectiveness which acts in the width and obtains validity through information and stimulation is measurable through the networks of the partners. With the Curriculum as well as the supplemented presenters list, an instrument which can be used in the long term by other organisations of adult education, municipalities, regions etc. is available. All results are retrievable free of charge on the joint project website in German and on the websites of the partners in the respective languages. Moreover, the results should be offered for a broad audience via the Epale platform.