+5 years reactivating rural areas
+3.000 entrepreneurs, professionals, initiatives & locations in our network
+1,090 local and global professionals and entrepreneurs participating in our activities
60 collaborating rural shakers, rural coworking and coliving, projects and initiatives in regions in Catalonia, Peninsula, Germany, Switzerland, Bali and the world.
+60 facilitators and high-level experts from around the world
+20 rural reactivation activities and programs of entrepreneurship, professional training and remote rural work, rural coliving and coworking residences
What Pandorahub is
We are a gLocal network of +3.000 entrepreneurial people, initiatives & locations
Startups, nomads, mentors, rural coliving and coworking spaces who share a passion for nature, the rural life, impact entrepreneurship and remote work.
¿What we do and Why?
We are on a mission of reversing rural depopulation by attracting and consolidating impact-driven professionals and entrepreneurs in villages and rural areas leveraging local positive transformation
¿Who we do it?
Reactivating and repopulating villages and rural areas from a gLocal (global-local) perspective, ACCELERATING and CONNECTING local (rural) entrepreneurial and conscious communities with global (urban) impact-driven professionals and entrepreneurs through acceleration programs enabling the creation of impact businesses and employment, fostering the opportunities of remote work by rural coliving and coworking experiences for the unblocking of underused rural homes, as well as providing rural activation consultancy support and training to other rural development public and private agents and Rural Shakers.
Why now
Abandonment of rural areas and villages is a global phenomenon. In Spain alone, there are nearly one million empty rural houses in villages. At the same time cities become overcrowded, leaving us with an impoverished quality of life and work. Luckily, the rise of entrepreneurial villages and rural coworking spaces is becoming global as well. A number of interesting people, professionals and entrepreneurs are already leaving cities and moving to villages. They are relocating their businesses, funding there new projects based on the local economy, launching coworking spaces that gather other young professionals, mixing technology and tradition to revitalize their rural home villages. As Pandorahub we (re)connect people with the rural areas. We do so by supporting local governments and local communities to become entrepreneurial villages, running rural coliving and coworking residencies, business acceleration and incubation experiences and unlocking a network of empty rural houses.
We are envisioning a network of villages within where “gLocal” activists will be able to roam around, living in under-used and abandoned rural houses, enabling the mobility of people widely ranging different nationalities, cultures, generations, and life experiences.
Do you want to join this paradigm shift?
What does our community say about us
PANDORAHUB is done by and for startups, individuals and professionals, entrepreneurs and families willing to bring more rural life in our lifestyles. We are eager to apply our human-centred, lean and happiness philosophies and skills to revive rural areas. We are purpose-driven entrepreneurs, life and career shifters enabling ourselves to escape from the unsustainable pace and demands of city life to something slower and more meaningful.
IAN COLLINGWOOD, PROGRAM DIRECTOR at STARTUP BOOTCAMP BARCELONA & PANDORAHUB LEAN STARTUP MENTOR
I grew up in a small village in the UK and I really appreciate village life. I struggle with the idea of combining the modern way of digital life with something that is richer. I also struggle with the idea of businesses that only exist to make money. I want to try and fine some way of combining all of those things plus fun. I think we have to rebuild the airplane while we are flying.
françois justet, Co-founder at Slowmov
At the end I understood Diana when she said “you can take it as a prior investment of time and budget for saving time and money in the near future”. Now I can tell, it is not that I don’t regret participating at all, but that if I wouldn’t have signed up for PANDORAHUB FUN! Startup, I would have taken a wrong decision!
