Dear 

We passed the midpoint between the winter solstice and spring equinox. Carnival festivities have started and will last for 18 days. Colourfull, funny and sometimes scary carnival masks will chase the winter cold away and make space for the spring, which brings back warmth, light, and hope. We wish they could chase the cold from human hearts and bring the light to human souls.

New large scale strategic partnership - would your ecovillage like to contribute?
GEN Europe is developing a new project that will build upon the knowledge accumulated in the previous CLIPS projects (clips.gen-europe.org), this time with the goal of supporting individuals to connect among themselves and with existing communities, while continuing the development of tools to support groups that are wanting to start communities and other forms of tightly-knit collaborative projects.To develop this project, we chose the new format of a Cooperation Partnership for European NGOs within the Erasmus+ programme, which means that all members of GEN Europe (including Switzerland and UK) will be automatically considered partners. That's why we would like to ask you to fill in this questionnaire, that will help us design the project in a way that responds more closely to the needs of our members.

Capacity building programme
Could your community benefit from having members trained in one or more of these topics: Community Incubator (CLIPS), Graphic facilitation, Bridgedale, Project creation training? Read descriptions of these programmes and express your interest before the 10th of February.