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The LEADER Congress, organized by ELARD, took place over 2 days in Poitiers, France. LEADER is a development program which has for 30 years been employing a method of engaging local actors in writing policies and strategies for rural development. Engagement happens primarily through around 2800 Local Action Groups (LAGs) which bridge public, private, and…
New Projects update: ECOPRISE
The Project Launch & Thrive has recently come to an end, and its two years of work have pushed GEN Europe’s IT infrastructure to new heights. Among many other achievements, we are celebrating the latest updates from the Ecovillage Map!
Our sixth Journey: Tips on founding a community
Cloughjordan Ecovillage, Ireland “I will create my own community” or “My friends and I want to find land and build our own community.” These thoughts often cross the minds of people exploring community living—especially when existing communities they’ve visited don’t fully align with their vision or expectations. Starting your own community is an exciting and…
YES to Sustainability
Written by Dario Ferraro This year the Yes to Sustainability network has run several new youth exchanges and training courses, organised by young people who are part of the network. The subjects of these projects range from exploration of the dimensions of sustainability as outlined by GEN and the Gaia Education, and Permaculture, to Digital…

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From April 2022 until April 2024 GEN Europe has been involved in the Horizon 2020 project Energy Citizenship and Energy Communities for a Clean-Energy Transition (EC2). Now that the project is coming to an end, we want to present its results and with it the project outputs that the consortium has been working on for…
Our first Journey: What’s next after the Gathering?
Dear new individual members of GEN Europe, it was fantastic to see and get to know so many of you during the Gathering in Sweden. Idealistic as we are, we really hope and believe that many of you have caught the spark and are eager to change the world by choosing a different way of…