Four days, 800 participants form 41 countries, over 50 workshops, and one beautiful temporary community created by every single person who attended biggest Ecovillage Gathering yet. We danced, sang, learned, played, built, and experienced the power of conscious community, nourished by the beautiful surroundings of our host, Nature Community in Germany. We are delighted to share the official afterfilm of the 2023 European Ecovillage Gathering to re-live these beautiful experiences with you! Sit back and enjoy the memories, or discover the energy of the Gathering for the first time. (Remember…

It took almost four years: from the first preparations in 2019, to nervously waiting for news of lockdowns in 2020 and again in 2021, it at times felt like the moment would never arrive. But as the sun set over the green hills and forests surrounding Nature Community and we looked out at the hundreds of individuals from across the world settling down in front of the main stage for the opening ceremony - we knew it would be worth the wait. Gathered around the main stage. Photo: Luk Jonckheere…

We're delighted to announce the publication of our 2022 annual report: a snapshot of GEN Europe's activities across the last calendar year. Inside the report you can read about network solidarity with GEN Ukraine, how youth engagement is thriving, what we're doing to care for our members and expand our network, and, of course, where we still want to improve. In 2022, our network: supported 360 young people to get closer to ecovillages thanks to Yes To Sustainability and NextGEN trained over 100 participants in CLIPS community-building methodologies involved over…

Ecodorp Boekel has been selected from among thousands of applications as a winner of the 2023 EUTECH Sustainable Development Goal awards, in the category of SDG 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities. Boekel, located in the Netherlands, is a highly ambitious ecovillage project with the SDGs at its heart. The project and its core group have been consistently recognised and awarded at local, national and international levels in the years since its launch and we are proud to have them as a member! Read the full story below, and watch founder…

The writer and lecturer will join over 50 workshop leaders at 26th edition of annual festival of sustainable lifestyles Christian Felber. Photo: Allard Willemse We are thrilled to announce the participation of renowned economist Christian Felber as a keynote speaker and workshop presenter at this year’s European Ecovillage Gathering. Felber is an award-winning author and the initiator of the Economy for the Common Good, a sustainable and holistic economic model and practice that aims to reorient economic activities towards the common good. Felber's workshop, "Economy for the Common Good –…

The ReGEN4All project team in Lisbon ReGEN4All Launches in Portugal The Erasmus+ funded REGEN4ALL project was launched in Lisbon last month, where project partners met for the first time to kick off this year-long project based on ecovillage research. The purpose of the ReGEN4All project is to serve researchers, practitioners, and adult educators from ecovillages and academia as well as policy makers on all levels in order to make the knowledge gained within and through ecovillages more accessible both for research and policy decisions on sustainable lifestyles and living environments. …