We're thrilled to hear that Ecodorp Boekel, the newest full member of GEN Europe, was recently recognised as "The Most Sustainable Organisation in the Netherlands" - a truly well deserved title. According to Boekel, On July 1st 2021, the jury chose Boekel Ecovillage as the most sustainable organisation in the Netherlands, because this project combines an enormously wide range of aspects of sustainability: nature-inclusive, climate-adaptive, climate-positive, circular, biodiversity and social sustainability. The majority of the 36 social housing units in the strikingly circular project were built using natural materials and…

For community-seekers and communities new and old; for those curious about exploring regeneration of ourselves and our world; for dreamers and visionaries and hands-on creators and crafters... We're excited to present a brand new offering to support community creation and inner and outer transformation. While changing travel regulations and public health guidelines still make it difficult for us to gather, we continue to offer spaces for all those curious about ecovillages to connect across borders, and the Resilience & Regeneration Series is that, and so much more... We invite you…

By Steffi Goerisch and Dario Ferraro GEN Europe is a member of the Yes to Sustainability partnership, a project designed to share best practice on peer learning among youth in the area of sustainability. The team in Jandala Finally, after months of online meetings, a colourful bunch of young people and youth workers from ecovillages and sustainable projects in Italy, Germany, Serbia, Netherlands, Spain and Slovenia, all members of the Erasmus+ Strategic Partnership “Yes To Sustainability”, met between the 7th and the 15th of June at the beautiful retreat and…

Participants of the project ‘Networking for Sustainability and a Green Youth’ have by now completed and submitted their first international youth projects aimed at sustainable development within the framework of the new 2021-2027 Erasmus+ program. The training itself took place at the Ängsbacka Course and Festival Centre in southern Sweden from April 7 to 12 with the financial support of the European Union Erasmus+ program. The 5-day training was attended by 35 people from 10 EU countries: Bulgaria, Germany, Holland, Greece, Italy, Spain, Slovakia, France, Sweden and Estonia. Ängsbacka is…

Yes To Sustainability is a project with a mission: to empower young people through giving them life-changing experience in ecovillages and sustainable communities. After several years of creating youth exchanges - short, fully funded experiences for youth in ecovillages - YTS has now been funded by Erasmus+ to strengthen its network and share best practices so that even more young people can experience ecovillage living and be part of creating a sustainable Europe. The KA2 Strategic partnership project started with a kick off online meeting on Zoom from 23-26 February…

A word from the organising team of the European Ecovillage Gathering 2021 The 2019 Gathering, in simpler times Dear friends,  Despite the unfolding pandemic, we remained optimistic dreaming that once again we would meet, hug, celebrate and sense each other at our European Ecovillage Gathering this summer. We perceive our growing collective longing to reconnect as family in a physical space and have been doing our best to meet this need.  Nevertheless, with time slipping away the pressure to start necessary preparations for our Gathering in Nature Community was weighing…