JÚBILO is a project in an embryonic state that proposes other ways of facing up to old age in today’s society. It seeks a sustainable model of self-care, where the elderly are not isolated from society but fully integrated and recognized; interconnected with younger generations and the world; active and autonomous. Especially during the pandemic we have seen that the current models of nursing homes or home care are not healthy or adequate ways of dealing with old age. We have also experienced how overpopulation of cities and abandonment of the rural environment is not sustainable. JÚBILO seeks to integrate these two problems into a joint solution, which will serve as a seed for rethinking the current ways of living and relating. JÚBILO seeks to be a model that can be reproduced in different communities, maintaining agreements with the universities closest to the place and with the city council of the area to be repopulated. It is a project that integrates repopulation, active-cultural tourism, education, culture, degrowth and, above all, self-care, which is essential to relate in a sustainable way among ourselves and with our environment.

Fixed population:

The active-cultural retirees are a cooperative of older people who are looking for alternative, active, autonomous and sustainable ways of coping with their old age, based on a network of self-care. Each person or couple has their own independent home, but beyond being isolated they generate, collectively, a network of self-care with self-managed common spaces. Young families who see other ways of raising their children in the rural environment can be added to this fixed population over time.

Itinerant population:

Young university students are passing through, doing internships, learning by doing and providing specialized services in the cultural, health and agricultural fields. These young passers-by are active-cultural tourists (a concept developed by espacioGuia), generating an alternative tourism movement and bringing freshness and connectivity to the fixed population.

Mutually inhabiting the territory:

Both groups of population actively inhabit the territory sharing knowledge and doing in an intergenerational way. The fixed population dignifies the place with its attentive living, welcoming the itinerant population, which through this active and sense living, is able to provide fresh solutions to the needs that arise.