Sortelha is part of the "Network of Villages for the Future" project, whose application was submitted to the DGRégio's Support to New European Bauhaus (NEB) local Initiatives call and was approved in July 2022. This application considers small rural settlements in the EUROACE territory, a cross-border Euroregion that includes the NUTS 2 regions Alentejo, Centro and Extremadura (Portugal-Spain). The Network of Villages for the Future initiative emphasises communities in terms of transforming the places where they live. From the very first phase (outlining the type of intervention and location), in which they were consulted, and as the project progresses, the Sortelha community is called upon to give its opinion, a clear bottom-up development approach centred on the people, also giving them responsibility for what the future of their village will be.