As ecovillagers, we value in-person connection: the ability to sense the mood of a room when facilitating, to truly see one another – and of course, to hug your friends! So when Covid-19 forced the cancellation of our General Assembly, we were nervous: would our GA be just one more of the exhausting online meetings …
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Launching the first Online Ecovillage Gathering
It was with a very heavy heart that we had to take the decision earlier this year to cancel the European Ecovillage Gathering. We were looking forward to meeting, learning, celebrating and connecting in Nature Community, but global events had other plans for us – and now our focus is on caring for our communities …
Sustainability and Resilience Festival in Denmark
By Dicte Frost The Danish network of ecovillages, LØS, in collaboration with GEN Ukraine, is co-creating Sustainability and Resilience Festival, a new event to be held in the southern countryside of Denmark from September 11th to October 11th. The festival is funded by the Danish ministry of foreign affairs, CISU, as part of a wider …
Ecovillage Incubator Training this October
The CLIPS community learning incubator is one of GEN Europe’s flagship projects, based on a wealth of ecovillage wisdom: a solution oriented programme to guide community-led projects in their initial steps as well as and for existing initiatives that struggle with problems or simply need revitalisation. We’re pleased to say that another round of Erasmus+ …
Create and Connect – a new learning journey
For many years, we’ve received the same question again and again: “I want to start an ecovillage. What should I do”? And now, in these uncertain times when many people are searching for new pathways and alternatives ways of living in harmony with their values, we felt like we couldn’t wait any longer to provide …
Solidarity Statement
GEN Europe is committed to our values of Social and Environmental Justice, Inclusion and Participation, Community and Cooperation, Diversity, and Sustainability. Based on these ecovillage values, and as founding members of ECOLISE, we hereby wholeheartedly support and share the following solidarity statement from ECOLISE (originally published here). ECOLISE states unequivocally that Black Lives Matter ECOLISE …
