The solidarity economy Smart Cooperative Austria has helped numerous artists, creatives and new self-employed through the first pandemic year, 2020. The returning lockdowns have brought the cultural scene to an almost complete standstill. Coming together of live audiences and experiencing …

Smart was founded in Austria in May 2015, to improve working conditions for people with frequently changing work situations, particularly artists, creatives and new self-employed. A cooperative, we are democratically organized and not-for-profit. Any gains are reinvested in the common …

We proudly welcome our 1.000th Smart user: filmmaker, editor and musician Cordula Thym Cordula Thym not only has two full-length documentary films in her repertoire – verliebt, verzopft, verwegen – Geschichten lesbischer (Un)sichtbarkeit im Wien der 50er und 60er Jahre …