In Bulgaria this month, the team of volunteers who are participating in the first-of-its-kind, FREE, year-round PDC have completed a detailed site analysis of this year's location of the European Permaculture Convergence.
During the kick-off gathering in Escherode, Germany, the partners met for the first time. The days were spent with intense discussions about how to come to the results that the Partnership wants to achieve.
Pablo has published 4 new posts (both in English and Spanish) about micro-sessions held in Spain, including videos for each! Check them out below, and please help with translating them to the other languages.
Community Resilience: Exploring how communities can thrive in these challenging times.
A summary of a micro teach with Davie Philip - by Andrew Zionts
What is livelihood?
We can look at it as work that we do which makes us come alive examples of creating livelihood in community, primarily from CloughJordan in Ireland, www.thevillage.ie:
Enseñando un juego llamado “Linea de recursos”. Un resumen de la micro-lección de Mirka, por Andrew Zionts La planificación de la lección es: Objetivos
A summary of a micro teach with Primož by Andrew Zionts.
Ecology is a science which explores interactions among organisms and their interactions with the environment.
Drawing an illustration on the ground of a number of elements such as sun, rain, plants, soil, bee, spider, fox, rabbit, fungi, flower, to represent the following features of an ecosystem.
Movement of Energy Illustrate with arrows flowing starting from the sun, and connecting all the flows
The next EPT meeting will be in Denmark, at the intentional community Friland, on 26th of May to 1st of June 2014. We look forward to welcoming you all here! The focus of the meeting will be around finalising the Teachers' Handbook and the other primary activities, outreach beyond the permateachers' group, as well as looking ahead to the time after the partnership ends. Already plans are being discussed and opportunities are being checked out. So come and take part in this important work!
The venue for the 6th meeting in the partnership is located in Denmark at the intentional community Friland. To view a very short presentation of the site and some keywords about our focus, Download EPT Denmark Friland presentation (PDF)
During the 5th EPT meeting in Spain from 24th till 28th September in Mas Franch we have identified with a World café technique which are the questions and answers leading the partnership to its future activities after the end of the Leonardo Da Vinci’s funding in July 2014. Here is the result from the Cultivate learning primary activity session. The first question asked within the group itself was "How do we continue further" and there were 5 suggestions raised: