Being a member of GEN Europe is first and foremost about connection: meeting and learning from other communities facing the same challenges, learning from their innovations and sharing in their success. Friendships are forged and projects and collaborations are developed across borders. But as an organisation we also want to give back to our network, …
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Volunteering for Sustainability
Ecovillagers and allies build capacity through an Erasmus+ training on the new European Solidarity Corps programme. Learning never stops in GEN Europe, with members of the network regularly and energetically designing and hosting trainings to upskill ecovillagers. This time around, “Volunteering for Sustainability” took place between the 16th and 20th of November 2019, at the …
REDES – Ecovillage Emergence in the Sahel
GEN Ambassador Alfonso Flaquer reports from a trip to the ecovillages of Senegal GEN Ambassador and Elder Alfonso Flaquer has long been connected with the ecovillage movement throughout Africa. With the Iberian Ecovillage Network, RIE, he participated in a recent visit to various projects and shares his impressions here. I have just returned from Senegal …
Communities aligned with their dreams
Tools for ecovillage creation at the CLIPS incubator training We need a future when we don’t have to imagine. We just open our eyes. Los Portales community close to Sevilla shows an example of a present worthy of being a common future. No, the modest houses and the arid land around Sevilla are no heaven …
