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title: "How Labs are supported | Syntrociety"
lang: "en"
canonical: "https://syntrociety.org/en/support"
datePublished: "2026-04-27"
dateModified: "2026-04-27"
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# How Labs are supported | Syntrociety

The federation gives every Lab two SYFERS tools. They register what your Lab does. That registration is also what funders increasingly require. The two are the same work.

## § 01, The principle — Registration as byproduct, not extra task.

Most cooperatives that apply for funding discover the same thing: the application asks for evidence of practice (what you actually do), evidence of governance (how you decide), and evidence of openness (who can see your work). Generating that evidence is usually a separate task on top of the work itself. Two streams of effort, only one of which actually moves the project forward.

The SYFERS tools collapse the two streams into one. The handbook your Lab maintains, the decisions your Council records, the proposals your members consent to, the documents your work generates, all of it flows into the public SYFERS repository. What you do is the registration. What is registered is the evidence funders ask for.

## § 02, The two tools — Two surfaces. One repository.

*Open source, maintained by the federation, free to all member Labs.*

## § 03, The mapping — What the tools cover, line by line.

*Each row is a dimension funders typically ask about. The adjacent cells show which tool function delivers it.*

## § 07, When you are ready — Begin with a conversation.

If your cooperative is considering federation, write to us. Tell us what you have built. We will explain what the tools would mean for your specific context and which funds align with the work you are already doing.