In August 2024, representatives of GEN Europe were invited by RIPESS Europe, a global network of continental networks committed to promoting the Social Solidarity Economy, to participate in the YITEG project Learning Seminar in Athens in November 2024. Another valuable opportunity to network, connect, research and… play a board game! That’s what the YITEG project…

In 2024, The Ecovillage Los Portales turned 40! This important celebratory milestone resonates deep within the network, highlighting the resilience, liveliness and longevity of the ecovillages, bringing hope to every member and beyond. Read more about Los Portales’s journey and get inspired by the story written by one of its long-standing members – Kevin LLuch….

During our Staff and Council meeting in the Findhorn Ecovillage, we were delighted to witness many contributions offered by the community during the celebration of Findhorn’s 62nd birthday. We were particularly touched by a heartfelt sharing of Mary Inglis, a prolific writer who has been calling Findhorn her home for many decades now. Mary was…

Remember when we asked for your vote to win thousands of euros in funding? We’re absolutely delighted to announce that, thanks to you, we’ve won €5000 from the #WBSherzensprojekte campaign! We have been deeply touched by all of your support and your help in spreading the word – every click really counted, and we couldn’t…

In the midst of November & autumn storms GEN Europe staff and council met for their bi-annual Meeting – this time in Findhorn Community in Scotland! From November 11th to 16th, we gathered to review, discuss, tweak, and celebrate the past year’s work. As GEN Europe’s team operates mostly online, these in-person meetings are always…

Exciting news from GEN Europe! We’ve launched an enhanced member directory that seamlessly connects with our interactive map. This dynamic tool showcases our vibrant network of ecovillages with searchable profile cards, making it easier than ever to find and connect with members across Europe. Filter by name, network, or country – plus, now you can…

Do you want to volunteer in European Ecovillages? We’ve launched a dedicated page for European Solidarity Corps (ESC) opportunities within our network. If you’re aged 18-30, and resident in the EU (or selected other countries such as Turkey), good news! The European Solidarity Corps, funded by the European Union, offers fully funded volunteering and traineeship opportunities,…

We’re once more delighted to offer an exciting opportunity to support us in receiving thousands of euros of funding – at no cost to you.
We were nominated yet again by a cherished former board member and longtime friend of GEN to receive a donation of up to €10,000 from WBS Gruppe as part of their #WBSherzensprojekte – a project that highlights and funds charities whose missions resonate most with their team members.

Photo by Anabelle Moghadam Mark your calendars! The European Ecovillage Gathering is set to return in 2025, bringing together visionaries, change-makers, and community builders from across the continent and beyond. From August 12th to 17th, 2025, we’ll gather at the beautiful Manas Garden in Hungary, hosted by the Mindenegyüttmegy Egyesület community. In 2025, we embark…

Yet another European Ecovillage Gathering is behind us. The four days spent exploring and connecting in Ängsbacka, Sweden still resonate within the collective body we co-created. The Gathering proved to be a shining lighthouse of the Ecovillage movement once again – guiding us towards each other, steering us in the right direction, and embodying the…

This August, GEN Europe held its annual General Assembly in Ängsbacka, Sweden, coinciding with the European Ecovillage Gathering. 87 delegates from 48 vibrant ecovillages, transnational & national networks, and ecoprojects gathered to reconnect, exchange ideas, and collaborate on shaping the future of our movement.

The summer Iberian Ecovillage Network Gathering seems like a distant memory as I write these lines on a rainy autumn evening in Germany. Yet, it was held just a month ago, during some sweltering summer days in the Spanish community of Arterra Bizimodu, located in the northern region of Navarra. My mind drifts back to those busy, vibrant warm summer days.

You are kindly invited to join our GEN Book Club happening September 30th 2024, 6-8.30 pm CET online. For this second edition of our Book Club, we are reading At work in the Ruins: Finding Our Place in the Time of Climate Crises and Other Emergencies by Dougald Hine.

We’re delighted to announce the publication of our 2023 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, and what we’re doing to care for our members and expand our network. Find out more…

A recognised leader in the field of regenerative agriculture and the author of the widely acclaimed manual Regenerative Agriculture will join over 50 workshop leaders at the 27th edition of the annual festival of sustainable lifestyles.

Volunteer with GEN Europe, fully funded through the European Solidarity Corps! 🌍 Live, Learn, and Grow in a Spanish Ecovillage! 🌍 We’re pleased to announce that applications for our annual funded volunteering programme for youth (under-30) are open! Come and join us at the heart of the European ecovillage movement in our office in Arterra…

The Project Launch & Thrive has recently come to an end, and its two years of work have pushed GEN Europe’s IT infrastructure to new heights. Among many other achievements, we are celebrating the latest updates from the Ecovillage Map!

The GEN Book Club: Envisioning the post-collapse Society, is happening July 23rd 2024, 4-5.30 pm CEST online! GEN International and GEN Europe are weaving in their efforts to bring you an open space for reflection, discussion and contemplation, an imaginative journey on how we can create our future together. What is the future of the…

Surprise! The online home for all things ecovillage in Europe has a brand new feature. The summertime is here, and the Ecovillages are flourishing with meaningful events all across the Network. It’s the time of re-connecting, sharing and meeting new members. To support Ecovillage events and spread the news about them, we created a new…

As the project ReGEN4All came to its end, it was time to celebrate the achievements and share the abundance we co-created with our project partners. Have a glimpse into the project’s purpose, project results and created alliances! The purpose of the ReGEN4All project was to serve researchers, practitioners, and adult educators from ecovillages and academia…

While last year the arrival of spring was celebrated in Torri Superiore in Italy practising the beloved CLIPS, this year the spring training was held in Hungary! Community Learning Incubator Programme for Sustainability (CLIPS) was held between the 15th and 20th of April 2024. A study group of 24 enthusiastic participants from Hungary, Ukraine, Serbia,…

We are thrilled to unveil a dynamic new membership category aimed at embracing a wider spectrum of regenerative projects: The so-called Ecoprojects.

This innovative addition opens our doors to a variety of initiatives from urban co-housing communities to permaculture farms, learning centers, and eco-tourism destinations. Each project, while unique in its approach, shares a common commitment to our ecovillage principles, fostering ecological and social regeneration.

What can ecovillages offer to support youth in navigating through the global crisis?

This training invites recognition of the predicament we are facing as humanity, and helps to envision alternatives to the current socio-economic system through games, exercises, and stories. The training is aimed for youth-workers – people already working with other youth, or willing to start such work.

The seventh edition of the GEN Expo – Ecovillage Sustainable Technology Exposition will take place during the 2024 European Ecovillage Gathering in Ängsbacka, Sweden, 20-25 August!

The community house in Busha, Ukraine, was a project initiated as a response to the start of the war to serve as a refugee shelter in the short term and as an event space and community centre in the long term. The idea was born in the summer of 2022 at the European Ecovillage Gathering…

We are thrilled to announce that the strategic partnership ‘Launch and Thrive – Awakening the networks’ is successfully coming to an end! This partnership between GEN Europe, GEN Ukraine, BEN, RIVE, LØS and APTES bore many fruits and the time has come to celebrate the accomplishments and the launch of the final results. For that…

Dear community enthusiasts, fellow stewards of the Earth and guardians of community spirit! Are you yearning to be part of an international family built on love, trust, and solidarity?Does your community seek support to turn your regenerative vision into reality? GEN Europe warmly welcomes ecoprojects, ecovillages, networks, and individuals into our Europe-wide network and extends…

To spread knowledge about projects in the network and open our doors to potential new members, the GEN Europe Projects Working Group organizes this Online Welcoming & Networking Event on June 6th at 17:00 CEST. Do you… This open online event on E+ and ESC will give you an introduction to the different programs we…

We are thrilled to announce the call for space-holders for this year’s Ecovillage Gathering Children’s Programme! Our mission is to weave an inspiring and co-created experience for the youngest members of our community, and we need your unique talents and energy to make this happen.

Are you part of a new ecovillage or an upcoming ecovillage group? Be resourced by the European Ecovillage Gathering to bring your community-dream into reality!

Once again, the European Ecovillage Gathering, will support the rise of new and upcoming ecovillages through a Community Resourcing Circle! 

GEN Europe is seeking a part-time event coordinator to join our small and friendly team! We are looking for a candidate with a creative approach, willing to work with transparency, and who has excellent organisation skills, and enthusiasm for the European Ecovillage Gathering and the ecovillage movement. In this diverse role of immense significance for…

GEN Europe is currently looking for 2 coordinators who will lead our volunteer ‘Dream Team’, a 6-week short team ESC for the European Ecovillage Gathering in Sweden this Summer! About the Role In August 2024, Sweden will host the European Ecovillage Gathering organised by the GEN Europe at Ängsbacka. 25 volunteers from all over Europe…

GEN Europe is seeking a part-time communications manager to join our small and friendly team! In this varied role at the heart of the ecovillage movement, you’ll be tasked with raising GEN Europe’s public profile, spreading ecovillage news and opportunities, and building our membership in collaboration with the rest of the team. You’ll manage our…

We’re delighted to announce that the Open Call for workshops for the European Ecovillage Gathering is live! Every year, dozens of people offer workshops and activities of all kinds as part of the huge co-creation that makes our annual event so unique. This year’s Gathering will take place in Ängsbacka, Sweden, from 20-25 August and…

A new manifesto launched by civil society organizations including GEN Europe claims the right of EU citizens to have the choice to live sustainably, calling on policymakers to swiftly localise an ambitious European Green Deal. Manifesto launch event in Brussels, 7 November. Photo: Alejandro Puzzo ECOLISE, the European network of community-led initiatives on climate change and…

Volunteer with GEN Europe, fully funded through the European Solidarity Corps!We’re pleased to announce that applications for our annual funded volunteering programme for youth (under-30) are open! Come and join us at the heart of the European ecovillage movement in our office in Arterra Bizimodu ecovillage, Spain. If you’re curious to gain experience in areas…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Good news! We’re so excited to announce that early bird tickets for this year’s European Ecovillage Gathering are now on sale. There are discounts available for kids, groups, participants from Eastern Europe, and youth. Booking early helps us plan for an even better Gathering, so you’re invited to book before March 15th for the best…

We’re inviting you to take part in the making of our favourite event of the year – The European Ecovillage Gathering. Be part of our web of co-creators by submitting a workshop proposal, offering your facilitation skills, being part of the community care and medical support teams, acting as a translator, or one of our…

If you’re under 30 and resident in Europe, this is your chance to spend 8-10 months living and volunteering at the heart of the ecovillage movement – fully funded through the European Solidarity Corps programme! GEN Europe is seeking enthusiastic young people aged 18-30 who are interested in ecovillages and sustainable living, and who want…

If you’re looking for a solid basis to start your journey into ecovillages in 2023 – or if you already have a dream project in mind that needs support and inspiration to take flight – the Ecovillage Design Education Course might be for you. The EDE at Schloss Glarisegg, Switzerland has been running with great…

Our friends and colleagues in GEN Ukraine have been working tirelessly since the war began to provide refuge and humanitarian support in ecovillages, as well as helping refugees adapt and embed into community life through activities like food growing and building. You can find more information about their work here. GEN Ukraine is now launching…

National and regional ecovillage networks play a vital role in spreading thriving community culture – forging connections between existing projects and supporting new ones based on shared cultures and languages. We’re celebrating the finalising of the WESEEN project, that has supported the creation of two new networks – Western Europe (WE) which links the Netherlands,…

Use your enthusiasm for ecovillages and live in Arterra Bizimodu ecovillage, Spain, at the heart of the European Ecovillage Network! We’re seeking an motivated, proactive candidate who is excited about ecovillage living to join us in the GEN Europe office starting September 2022. ESC volunteering is fully funded by the European Union, so you’ll receive…

Since the outbreak of war, we have received messages of peace and solidarity with Ukraine from members of our network in Russia. However, until now they have felt unable to speak out openly due to the potential consequences, and the risk remains high. Nevertheless, they have shared with us this statement, also published on their…

On this page, learn about their initiatives to support refugees, read and listen to voices from Ukrainian ecovillages and give your support to ecovillage initiatives giving hope in the darkest of times.

We are in close contact with members of GEN Ukraine as they mobilise to support refugees by providing shelter in the country’s many ecovillages, permaculture projects and other eco-settlements. We will be publishing translated updates we receive from Maksym Zalevskyi, president of GEN Ukraine, who is spearheading the mobilisation. If you wish to support GEN…

We are now able to accept funds for supporting ecovillages in Ukraine. Ecovillages and other eco-settlements are right now hosting large numbers of refugees and need support to create safe, warm, hygienic spaces to house and feed people seeking shelter. With the initial aim of providing safe centres for at least 500 people, as well…

It is with great sadness that we witness, after years of armed conflict in the Donbas, the outbreak of open war in Ukraine. Weapons are never a means to settle conflict. Our hearts go out to our members in the country, and to all those striving for peace and community. We commit to offering all…

We are happy to announce that GEN Europe is looking for a temporary Projects Coordinator to join our small and friendly team to covering the 10-month maternity leave of one of our employees. We are seeking someone who has experience in project acquisition and project management, specifically in large scale projects funded through e.g. Horizon…

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…

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…