Educational Structures
The objectives of the Educational Structures group are:
- To share information about various national permaculture education systems and qualifications frameworks;
- To establish a pan-European network of permaculture teachers and organisations;
- To mutually support the national organisations to form networks to set up or improve their educational systems and structures;
- To support in developing organisational structures and working practices for less well set-up countries.
On this page you will find:
- Presentations of national educational structures;
- Different pathways towards the diploma in applied permaculture design;
- Links towards global directories of projects, courses and people;
- The results of a questionnaire with the number of courses organised in Europe in 2012;
- SWOC (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Constraints) analysis of educational structures in Europe;
- [Coming Soon] A table with links towards European permaculture organisations, with information about diploma pathways, diploma holders, permaculture design courses, introduction courses and specialised courses;
- A document with interactions between elements of educational structures that you can use and play with to improve your organisation;
- The results of interviews made in May 2014 in Denmark that show the evolution of national permaculture organisations.
Existing Educational Structures in Europe
This is a collection of existing Educational Structures in different European countries. Do you want to add or change yours? Please get in touch with us!
- Netherlands – Educational Structures (embedded)
- Ireland – National Certification (embedded)
- Germany – Diploma Pathway (pdf)
- Italy – Diploma System (pdf)
- France – Diploma System (pdf)
- Portugal – Diploma System (embedded)
- Bulgaria – Educational Structures
- UK – Diploma System
- Finland – Educational Structures
- Sweden – Diploma System
- Spain – Educational Structures
- Nomad Permaculture (embedded)
- Europe – Permaculture Diploma Report (2008 – pdf)
Two global directories of projects, courses and people:
Questionnaire of Educational Structures
During the meeting in Slovenia, we gathered questionnaires on educational structures from: Denmark, England, France, Germany, Ireland, Netherlands, Portugal, Italy, Austria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Slovakia and the Canary Islands.
Overview of the Educational Structures Questionnaire (xls)
Also during the meeting we made a SWOC analysis (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Constraints – and Solutions) of different educational structures:
Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Constraints and Solutions (pdf)
This information can be used for:
- each country and organisation to analyse and understand their own situation
- between the participating countries, to learn from each others strengths and opportunities
- countries creating a permaculture organisation, to learn and understand different strategies and ways to adapt to the local situation
- students to see the strength of each country and choose the association that is more adapted to their needs
Here are some conclusions and highlights of the SWOC: SWOC Analysis Conclusions (PDF)
If you want to add or modify information about your organisation or country, don’t hesitate to contact us.
We have developed a method based on the Input-Output Analysis to analyse and improve educational structures! Full article and instructions here.
“Educational Structures” refers to:
… capturing existing and emerging support structures in Permaculture education and teachers’ training in the different European countries, such as:
- Introductory courses and workshops
- Basic permaculture courses
- Diploma pathways
- Advanced courses
- Integral & comprehensive courses
- Teachers’ register
- Tutor & senior tutor register
- Apprenticeships & internships