Since 2009 Ideen hoch drei (Ideas³) has supported local adult education communities across Germany to co-create thriving learning contexts within the social/environmental justice sector. Over the last nine years they have worked to empower hundreds of adult learners to develop social businesses ideas from conception to sustainability and successfully created intercultural education settings in response to the more than 1.2 million displaced people arriving in Germany since 2015, empowering learners to work on a wide range of projects including diversity, community engagement and cohesion.