€25,000 to help shape a city, not just live in it: Move to Planet BE
Let’s get one thing out of the way. If you’re looking for another “move to Italy, sip coffee, work by the sea” fantasy, this isn’t it.
Move to Planet BE is not a lifestyle package. It’s not a residency disguised as a holiday. And it’s definitely not about chasing the next Instagram-friendly destination.
It’s a paid professional assignment (€25,000 net) for people under 35 who are willing to do something far more interesting — and far more demanding: help shape the future of Southern European cities from the inside.
The project is part of a European programme (Interreg Italy–Greece) and is looking for 9 international talents to work on climate-positive urban regeneration in Brindisi, Matera and Aigialeia (Greece). Real work, real outputs, real collaboration with local institutions and communities.
This matters, especially if you’re a digital nomad or expat who’s been around long enough to feel the limits of frictionless mobility.
Because let’s be honest:
remote work gave many of us freedom — but it also created a generation of people passing through places without ever really contributing to them.
Move to Planet BE flips that script.
Brindisi, the main hub of the project, isn’t new to this conversation. Over the years, it has quietly built a reputation as a place willing to experiment with remote work, to the point of being recognised by Airbnb as one of the top 20 cities worldwide for remote work. But this initiative goes a step further: it asks a harder question.
What happens when talent attraction stops being about visibility and starts being about responsibility?
That’s where the Just B Foundation ETS comes in. Born from years of listening, co-design and on-the-ground experimentation (including the Sea Working experience), the Foundation’s mission is refreshingly clear:
turn interest into competent presence, short stays into meaningful contribution, and good intentions into long-term governance.
In practical terms, selected participants will co-design:
a shared Action Plan;
three climate-positive urban regeneration pilot projects, inspired by the principles of the New European Bauhaus — sustainability, inclusion and quality of life, without the buzzword overload.
This is not about “saving” Southern Europe.
It’s about recognising that places like Southern Italy and the Mediterranean are not peripheries — they are laboratories. Messy, complex, imperfect, but incredibly fertile for anyone interested in the future of work, cities and community.
If you’ve ever felt that nomad life needed a next step — something more rooted, more challenging, more honest — Move to Planet BE is worth your attention.
Not because it’s easy.
But because it takes you seriously.
📅 Deadline: 27 February 2026
🔗 www.movetoplanetbe.org