World's Workers Competition

Since the beginning of the crisis in Greece, a growing number of unemployed Athenians have decided to move to the countryside, hoping to change their lives for the better.

In October 2012, after 123 years, the cotton factory Honegger of Albino closed down, in the middle valley of Bergamo.

Besence is a remote Roma village in Hungary, where 98% of the population is unemployed. But energetic Mayor Ignác has decided to put his poor village on the map.