This project comparatively analyses the resilience and innovative capacities of civil society in Poland, Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Czechia, and Sweden. It begins from the genealogies of multiple crises – economic, housing, climate, food, pandemic, and gender – and focuses on communities’ collective responses. It examines how civic actions emerge and endure under conditions of exclusion, how activists sustain engagement and build multi-scalar solidarities, and how alliances and key relationships are shaped. As an analytical instrument, the concept of “hubs of engagement” is introduced. The methodological framework is qualitative and comparative, based on critical participatory action research.