Building a
new generation
of intentional rural colivings

The Founder or Co-Founder is for people who want to open their own coliving — whether by renovating a rural house, partnering with Kalart as a co-founder, or leading their own project with Kalart's backing and know-how. It requires investment capacity or a project with financing already in place. The Resident Director is for people with an operational calling and community talent who want to lead a space -already open or about to open- as community manager or director, without needing their own investment. Kalart identifies and sets up the space; you manage and care for it. Both profiles are equally necessary to scale the model.

Yes. The Resident Director profile exists precisely for people with talent for community building and management but without starting capital. If you have the relational and organizational skills and the commitment to the project, Kalart prepares you to lead spaces driven by the network, by aligned investors, or by Kalart's own structure. Money is not the entry criterion. The criterion is the person.

No. Even if you apply as a Founder or Co-founder, you don't need to own a house or arrive with a house identified or a finished project. And if you apply as a Resident Director, even less so, since Kalart provides the house. Some people arrive with a property identified or a very concrete idea, and others arrive with the intuition that they want to change something but without knowing exactly what. Both starting points are valid. What you do need is clarity about why this path and why now. The project, if it doesn't exist yet, can be built during and after the program.

It's not a requirement, although experience obviously helps to give more assurance in the selection process. However, mindset and commitment matter more. We look for people with an entrepreneurial attitude, human sensitivity, organizational ability and a real desire to build new forms of shared living. Some profiles arrive with years of experience in facilitation, and others come from digital nomadism or social entrepreneurship without ever having managed a community space.

It depends on the profile. If you go for the Resident Director, yes: the role means living in the space you manage, at least during the start-up phase. If you're a Founder or Co-Founder investor, it's not essential that you live there, but you do need a genuine interest in the new ruralities, more human ways of life, community as infrastructure, and relational sustainability. You can't believe in a project you don't understand from the inside.

Very diverse profiles, but with something in common: they're at a moment of transition and want to build something different. We usually find digital nomads who have spent years going from coliving to coliving and are looking for a more stable purpose, social entrepreneurs with a community calling, facilitators and coaches who want to move from supporting to building, creative profiles who want to anchor their life in a meaningful project, cooperative members looking to scale models of coexistence, and people who simply feel that the current way of life doesn't represent them and want to design a different one.

The process has three moments. First we review your application form: who you are, what you're looking for and why you're applying to Kalart Seeds at this point in your life. If there's alignment, we invite you to an exploratory call with the Kalart team. From that conversation we make the decision. It's a personal process, not a mass one: one spot per month ensures that each selection is a real conversation, not an automated filter.

We value the coherence between what you're looking for and what the program offers, an entrepreneurial attitude, the ability to learn through learning-by-doing, a genuine interest in community as a way of life and not just as a business model, and the willingness to commit beyond the residency month. We're not looking for perfect profiles. We're looking for people who are honest about where they are and what they want to build.

One per month. Twelve a year at most. This limit is intentional: we want to scale the program without sacrificing the quality of the support. Each person who goes through Kalart Seeds is potentially the co-founder or director of one of the next spaces we're going to open.

We always reply, even if the answer is a no. If there's no fit right now, we explain why and, if it makes sense, we encourage you to apply again in a later call. Some of the best projects start with a first "not yet".

You become part of the Kalart Seeds pool of entrepreneurs. From there, depending on your profile and the project's timing, different paths can open up: leading one of the new rural colivings driven together with Kalart, co-founding your own project with Kalart's support, joining projects already underway, or continuing to develop your vision with the community's backing. The incubation program isn't the end. It's the beginning of a possible long-term collaboration.

There are no formal obligations when it ends. What may emerge are co-founding agreements or director contracts if there's a project underway and a real fit. But that's built with time and mutual trust, never as a condition for entering the program. No one signs anything before knowing whether it's going to work.

Yes. Identifying properties with coliving potential is part of Kalart's work. We look for large houses in rural settings —usually between 6 and 12 rooms— with the potential to be converted into mid-stay spaces. Given the paradox that nearly 20% of homes in rural municipalities are empty, Kalart firmly backs renovation over new construction and supports the use of non-speculative access formulas, such as rural masovería or use-transfer housing, to reactivate this underused heritage without contributing to the gentrification of villages. If you have a property identified or a relationship with an interested owner, that's a valuable starting point. If you have nothing, Kalart can also support that search as part of the co-founding process.

Kalart doesn't act as a direct financial intermediary, but it can support you in that process. During the program we work on the business models and financing structures most common in rural coliving projects: aligned private investment, housing cooperatives, urban masovería, public rural-regeneration grants and European funds. In addition, the Kalart Seeds network includes investor profiles interested in impact projects, whom you could connect with if there's a solid project. Access to that network is part of the program's value.

The rural colivings Kalart drives are mid-stay: between 1 and 3 years. They aren't hotels with coworking, nor ecovillages or intentional communities. They aren't meant for short, passing stays, and they're not lifelong rental contracts either. It's an intermediate model, stable and with a horizon, that lets you enjoy rural life in company and build real bonds without the investments and ties of co-housing or the complexities of intentional communities. In short, they're transitional spaces to finish understanding what kind of life interests you and which way of living you want to commit to.

Most current colivings work like hotels for remote workers: high turnover, fleeting bonds, an experience of consumption. Kalart is the only rural coliving in Spain offering hybrid stays —short (1-6 months) and long (1-2 years)— with a focus on intentional living, personal and professional development, and real territorial connection. At Kalart we don't design accommodation. We design human ecosystems. And the founders have been doing it for over 15 years.

Kalart's colivings are what in mountaineering is called a base camp: a safe, well-equipped place with community, from which to launch yourself to explore —a new territory— without having to commit to it before getting to know it.

That new territory can be rural life, the slow life, remote work in a natural setting, conscious entrepreneurship, or simply living intentionally with other people. The coliving gives you the time and context you need to explore your real compatibility with all of that, with a support network and without large upfront investments.

Kalart's data confirms it: 73% of the people who come for a month end up extending their stay. Not because anyone asks them to, but because what they find answers something they'd been looking for without knowing how to name it.

For people who believe that living in community adds value. People who want to develop professionally, whether working remotely or building a business. People who like to weave bonds with the territory. People who enjoy rural life and nature.

They can be digital nomads who have spent years hopping from coliving to coliving and feel it's time to stop and build something. They can be city dwellers who dream of moving to the countryside but don't know if it will really work for them and don't want to throw away their savings on a rural project that then falls through. They can be remote workers who share a flat in the city out of financial necessity but want to know what it's like to share a home by choice and with purpose. They can be social entrepreneurs who want to find their tribe before launching their own project. Or simply people who feel that the current pace of life doesn't represent them and want to experience a different one before committing to it.

What they have in common is that they don't want to make a blind bet. They want to try with the assurance that their living experience will be cared for — and that they can contribute to making it so.

Our model radically avoids "showcase neo-ruralism": we don't create isolated coworkings that operate with their backs to the neighbors. At Kalart Seeds we're committed to Deep Rural Immersion. We teach future Community Builders to integrate into the local fabric: learning -if they don't speak it- the local language, buying from local farmers, taking part in neighborhood associations and boosting the local rural economy, ensuring that the arrival of new residents adds value to the municipality and doesn't create barriers.

They are three related but distinct concepts. Cohousing is a housing model where each person or family has their own private unit -usually bought- but shares common spaces (kitchen, garden, living room) and makes decisions collectively. The regulation of coexistence tends to be self-managed, so it's more informal. It usually involves ownership or a long-term lease. Coliving is a more flexible model where common spaces are also shared, and among them coworking is the most important. It runs under a rental arrangement, contracts are shorter and there's usually external professional management of the space. Sometimes, as with Kalart, the managers can be the founders, and they can also live in the same space. Unlike cohousing, families and children usually don't stay there. It's aimed more at young people and digital nomads. The intentional community, sometimes also called an ecovillage, is the broadest concept: a group of people who choose to live together with an explicit shared purpose, which can take different physical and legal forms, and usually involves a consolidated project on a large rural plot and entails aspects such as ecofeminism, food sovereignty, energy self-sufficiency, etc. Kalart operates at the intersection of the three: it has the intentionality of a community, the operational structure of a coliving and the permanence of cohousing.

Intentional rural colivings where coexistence is the central design, not something left to chance. Community homes for local young people who can't access conventional housing. Hybrid spaces between life and work in natural settings. Rural-regeneration projects that combine remote residents with local fabric. And new human infrastructure for the era of distributed work, with special attention to work-life balance. What we don't look for: Airbnbs with coworking, hotels rebranded as colivings, or spaces that work well on Instagram but badly in real coexistence.

We don't walk alone. We understand that rural repopulation and community building require a network. That's why Kalart Seeds draws inspiration from and seeks synergies with the rich ecosystem of the Social and Solidarity Economy (SSE) in Catalonia and Spain. We want our projects to collaborate with repopulation platforms, and we learn from the leaders in cooperative housing and facilitation, as part of a broad territorial movement.

We believe the housing of the future will be more shared. The question is whether it will be shared out of necessity or by choice. Out of scarcity or out of purpose. Kalart bets on the latter: models where sharing isn't a plan B against the crisis, but a deliberate and richer way of inhabiting the world. We believe in housing as human infrastructure: not just a roof to sleep under, but an ecosystem to grow, connect and contribute in. And we believe those models need trained managers, active cultures of coexistence, and structures that sustain them beyond initial goodwill.

Kalart is in the Montseny Natural Park, Catalonia, a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve, 45 minutes from Barcelona. It's where the program's residency takes place. The new colivings driven by Kalart Seeds may be located in any rural territory in the country with the right conditions: good connectivity, an active local community and properties with potential. We're not limited to Catalonia, although it's the territory we know best.

The call is open on a permanent basis. You can apply for the month that best suits your availability. We recommend doing so at least 6-8 weeks in advance to allow time for the selection process and the practical preparation of the stay.

Yes. Kalart Seeds is open to international profiles. The residency is in person in the Montseny (50 minutes from Barcelona), so you'll need to be able to travel and stay for 4 weeks. We sort out the practical details of visas, transport and logistics with you once your selection is confirmed.

No, we're sorry. Kalart has its own dynamics and we can't "open the doors" to every request interested in visiting us. If it's really necessary for you, you can come to take part in one of the events we organize; direct experience of the space and the community will give you much more clarity about whether this is what you're looking for. Follow us on Instagram to find out about our events. And write to us and we'll see how to fit it in.

No. Accommodation is covered by the scholarship. The only costs you bear are travel to Kalart and your personal expenses, as well as food (meals) during the 4 weeks. We're transparent about this from the start.