Monetary Diversity Gathering II

This three-day professional gathering will bring together municipal and regional representatives, institutional actors, digital infrastructure providers, researchers and monetary innovators from across Europe to explore one central question: How can new monetary infrastructures strengthen territorial resilience and public innovation?

Thousands of complementary currency projects are active worldwide today. Yet most policymakers have never heard of them.

The systems that could make local economies more resilient, reduce inequality and give territories genuine monetary sovereignty exist; and they work. The problem is not innovation. It is connection, recognition, and scale.

That is why MDG II exists.

The monetary landscape is changing. Are you part of it?

For decades, monetary innovation has developed in parallel worlds: academic research that rarely reaches practitioners, community experiments that struggle to connect with institutions, and policy discussions that ignore what already works on the ground.

The result? A fragmented field & full of solutions, short on momentum.

Across Europe and beyond, municipalities, territories, NGOs and financial institutions are experimenting with new monetary tools. Local currencies that keep value circulating within communities. Municipal tokens that fund public services. Bioregional financing facilities that connect capital to ecosystems. Public digital payment infrastructure that reduces dependency on private intermediaries.

These are not fringe ideas. They are tested, documented, and ready to scale.

What is missing is a room where the people building them can finally meet the people who can take them further.