Category: Partnership

As much of the content of the partnership can be used directly at home when the partners organise and especially the teachers give courses, one major point of evaluation will be the feedback of the students at these courses. The satisfaction of students during and at the courses will be an indicator for the success… Continue reading Evaluation

Editors Cathrine Dolleris (Denmark) Mari Korhonen (Finland) Elena Parmiggiani (Italy) Ivaylo Popov (Bulgaria) Mihaela Tzarchinska (Bulgaria) Mariya Obretenova (Bulgaria) Sandra Campe (Germany) Administrators Leo Bakx (Netherlands) Domen Zupan (Slovenia) Rakesh Rootsman Rak (UK) Martin Giannini (Ireland) Tanja Korvenmaa (Finland) Sandy James (UK) Pablo Gonzales (Spain) Noelia Jiménez (Spain) Banner image contributors Leo Bakx (Netherlands) Tanja… Continue reading Editing Team

(here only the international meetings are displayed): Meeting: August 1st – 7th, 2012, Germany (Escherode) Topics: Preparatory-meeting: Getting to know each other more closely, defining work and social structure of meetings, outline of next mobility meeting in October Meeting: October 21st – 25th, 2012; Slovenia (Trenta) Presentation and discussion of educational structures, systems and processes… Continue reading Work Programme

In the participating organisations Most partners in the Partnership have at least yearly meetings in place, in which they will report on the results and experiences of the Partnership. Organizations situated in countries with a larger network of Permaculture teachers and practitioners have quarterly or even more frequent meetings of teachers and students / learners.… Continue reading Dissemination and the use of results

All partner organisations either organise or aspire to organise trainings and courses in Permaculture. All issues that are being exchanged during the Partnership meetings can be used directly at the home institution at events and during day-to-day work in between the meetings. This is true for both main issues of the Partnership: organisational structures as… Continue reading Integration into ongoing activities

Planning Partners have informed relevant staff through their usual communication channels about the Partnership and its goals. The contributions and options for active involvement of each partner organisation has been a common process in which all relevant staff was involved. In those countries that already have an extensive network of active Permaculture teachers, not all… Continue reading Participants’ Involvement

The German Permakultur Akademie will undertake the role of the overall coordinator for this Partnership. The other partners distributed the coordination of tasks to achieve the specific objectives and results of the Partnership. Much of the work will be done face-to-face during the 6 meetings which are planned over the course of the two years.… Continue reading Cooperation and Communication

In the application we decided which country would take lead of which part of the project (see “Distribution of Tasks according to application” below). At the first meeting, we decided on a working structure for the Partnership which allows us to both allocate clear roles and move between these easily at the same time. This… Continue reading Distribution of Tasks

A pan-european network of teachers to cooperate on the delivery of permaculture to adult learners is established Foundation laid for improvement of professionalism & practice of existing permaculture teachers and for confidence & personal sustainability of new permaculture teachers in countries where permaculture is emerging Brochure about the various educational structures in Europe available online… Continue reading Results and Outcomes

The objectives of this Partnership are the following: To support teachers in practising teaching methods and in enhancing their teaching quality; thus to improve the professionalism of permaculture education across Europe. To exchange about different curricula and course formats. To learn from other organisations’ experience and to mutually support young organisations to form strong national… Continue reading Project Objectives and Strategy

In a recent communication to the European Parliament, entitled “Options for an EU vision and target for biodiversity beyond 2010”, the European Commission noted that “The promise of permaculture as an effective protector and restorer of biodiversity should be explored and enhanced”. As advocates of permaculture, naturally we agree, and believe that education should form… Continue reading Rationale

The following text gives an overview of the project application.   Permaculture is a method of designing sustainable systems that has been used worldwide for the last 35 years. It brings knowledge from various fields (horticulture, agriculture, architecture, economics etc) together under a set of ethics and principles to enable people to create sustainable homes,… Continue reading Project Summary

Attend EPT Meetings LIVE or watch recorded sessions* One of the projects of the partnership is to establish a system for virtual conferencing for permaculture teachers in Europe. We use Internet technology to save time, energy and resources on traveling to spend instead on better design and projects in the field. By ‘going virtual’ we… Continue reading Virtual Conference