This eight-month long-term ESC project was designed for 6 enthusiastic young people age 18-30 who are interested in ecovillages and sustainable living, and who want to gain experience and participate in regenerative farming activities, renewable energies and building maintenance, as well as in community-building, self-development and work in intercultural teams. During the eight months you will get to know the life of a Spanish ecovillage and the European network of ecovillages. The ESC project will take place in 2024 and has a flexible starting date between 01/03/2024-1/04/2024. Each volunteer will…

Thank you so much for all of you who were present for our Winter Solstice Celebration and Extraordinary General Assembly! 🙂 Next to voting on the new membership policies and the changes in the statutes, we also shared our moments of gratitude for GEN, tuned into the Solstice and shared our dreams and visions for the year ahead.  ⭐ Here also the recording of the meeting, in case you missed it. ⭐ A quick recap of our voting results: With 79% of our full members present, we doubled even the…

This meeting provided a platform for participants to connect, share experiences, and collaboratively structure the network for a sustainable future.

The Danish Ecovillage Network, LOES, is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year and held two celebrations!

The project ECOPRISE in which GEN Europe is a partner has been approved, yeahhh! It's main objective is the development of a multi-disciplinary course on Ecopreneurship, i.e. future-oriented social entrepreneurship through ecovillage design, inspired by the 4 dimensions of sustainability, and recognised through micro-credentials and through a European certification. To learn more about the project you can read the abstract below: Current challenges at international level, such as climate change, environmental degradation, rising unemployment rates, have shown the urgent need to adopt more sustainable approaches in our lifestyles and productive systems.…

As many of you may  remember, Iryna Kazakova from GEN-Ukraine decided to leave the room during the last GA in Nature Community, when Olga from GEN-Russia - who was already online for a while (but just listening) - started to actively participate in the voting process. At that moment of the meeting there was no possibility to create the safe space it deserved, but we promised in the GA that we will come back to this. Unfortunately, this could not be realized during the GA itself, or during the other…