November Moon Cycle News from GEN Europe

Dear

Late autumn greetings from the GEN Europe staff and council team!🍂

In the picture below you can see them amidst the beautiful autumn leaves during their in-person meeting in Schloss Tempelhof at the beginning of November in which they energized the different areas of work, while sensing into the next steps and developments of the organization.

Please find below the latest updates and invitation from the network and GEN Europe!

News & Invitations from GEN Europe

GEN Europe says THANK YOU

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 your messages of support and your help in spreading the word - every click really counted, and we couldn’t have done it without each and every one of you.

From the bottom of our hearts: thank you!

Invitation to the Member's Hour
on new Membership Policies

The theme will be the new Membership Policies which all full members will vote on at the Extraordinary General Assembly on the 20th of December 2023.

In the today's member's hour on the 27 of November between 5-6pm, I will present a comprehensive overview of the changes and intentions behind the proposal and listen and respond to your comments, and possible last minor amendments.

Join Zoom Meeting:
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/84332758713

Meeting ID: 843 3275 8713

Read the background, documents and full invitation

Recordings of Ecovillage Essentials Webinar Series

Access our latest online event recordings! Did you miss our Ecovillage Essentials webinar series? We're offering you, our members, free access to all the recordings.
You can find them here:

Shared ownership with maximum personal freedom – the Mietshäuser Syndikat model

Ecovillage Essentials: Cooperative Oasis

Sociocracy in Community

The Pas-Sages Model

If you have expertise you'd like to share in future webinar series, please get in touch with Fran on fran@gen-europe.org.

Dates for the next General Assembly & Gathering in Ängsbacka

Volunteering with GEN Europe

Don’t miss this funded volunteering opportunity to live and work at the heart of the European ecovillage movement while living in Arterra Bizimodu ecovillage, Spain.

If you’re under 30, resident/citizen of the EU, interested in IT, communications/design, non-profit management and projects or events management and curious about ecovillages…this is for you!

Learn more and apply now

Community-led initiatives call for a stronger EU Green Deal driven by collective action

Members from around our network, as well as allied community-led initiatives, have contributed to a new manifesto launched this month at ECOLISE´s annual main policy event, “Making the European Green Deal Strong and Real: Harnessing the power of community-led initiatives and local governments". The manifesto claims the right of EU citizens to have the choice to live sustainably,

calling on policymakers to swiftly localise an ambitious European Green Deal through tapping into the power of grassroots initiatives like ecovillages, transition towns and many others.

Call for documents around inclusion & community agreements/aspiration

Through revising the current membership policies and recent discussions at the last staff & council in person meeting, we sensed into the need to have a closer look at the values, agreements and aspirations within our network and the ways how we keep ourselves accountable to support and actively create safe and inclusive spaces.

To support the work of a small working group which we will also open up to members in spring next year, we are now reaching out to YOU to share any documents from your communities and networks with us that might inspire and support our work and help them align with our network.

Any contributions are very much appreciated and please send them to me at carolin@gen-europe.org

Invitation to join the National Networks Meeting in Pourgues, 18-21 Jan

Purpose of the NN meeting?

- To meet, connect, hear and engage with the latest updates from the network and GEN EU
- To sense, co-create and ignite the writing of new projects
- For the GEN EU team to listen to the network to inform the membership scheme and its benefits provided
- To enjoy the GEN family and good company

Who is it for?

- Primarily for National Network representatives that are actively involved in their NN so that they can report about them and get involved in new projects
- People who have a desire to start a NN or/and get actively involved in their NN and the NN working group

If you haven't registered yet, please add your proposed agenda items/way of contributing, name & NN for better overview and planning to this sheet and fill out this form to officially register your food and accommodation with Pourgues.

Read the full infopack

GEN Europe Project Updates

Project Highlight:
Yes to Sustainability

We want to highlight the results of our past projects, to make sure that you, our members are aware of the amazing tools, outputs, videos and other materials that were created. This time we present to you the project Yes to Sustainability. This project recently finished and has the following outputs that you can look through, use and share. Firstly, you can find more information on the project overall, on the projects website. The Yes to sustainability partnership had its objective to bring together young people in ecovillages and sustainable projects in Europe and do this by organizing Youth Exchanges and Mobility for Youth Workers such as training courses and seminars. The project not only produced a brochure to help young people and youth workers to create their own sustainable Youth Exchanges, but there is also a team of mentors, who can support you from the initial idea, the implementation of your sustainable event to the final report.

Check out the project website

REGEN4All:
Discover the E-Community Platform and research library

The REGEN4All project is seeing exciting developments as it draws to a close: the E-Community platform currently offers a place for researchers and ecovillagers to connect, while offering a number of exciting possibilities for the future that we're exploring. Meanwhile, the project has also produced the first comprehensive library of ecovillage research, a fantastic resource for students, policymakers, ecovillagers and more.

To learn more about the platform and library, join the interactive online session on November 28th at 15:00 CET:

New project ECOPRISE

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.