HOME - ECOLISEWHO WE AREWHAT WE DONEWSCOMMUNITIES IN ACTIONEVENTSRESOURCES ECOLISE is seeking candidates for three positions: Social Media Officer, Administrative Office and Project Manager. All positions are internet-based and independent of location, but with possibilities to work from the ECOLISE Office in Brussels. The positions are all part time, either 40% or 60% Full Time Equivalent. Applications are

invited.

ABOUT ECOLISE

ECOLISE Strategy, agreed at the members’ 4th General Assembly, 11 April 2019 ECOLISE, the European network for community-led initiatives on climate change and sustainability, recognises the unprecedented ecological, social, economic and political threats to dignified life on planet earth. These threats have been provoked by centuries of ongoing extractive and exploitative institutional

MEMBERS - ECOLISE

ECOLISE has 42 member organisations registered as legal entities in 17 different EU Member States – Belgium, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia, Spain, and Sweden – and Switzerland and the UK. The activities of ECOLISE members extend to all EU member states, as well as

OUR TEAM - ECOLISE

Eamon O’Hara (Executive Director) Eamon initiated and co-founded ECOLISE. He has been managing EU projects and initiatives on local development and the environment since 1994, both in Ireland and in Brussels where he worked with AEIDL and the European LEADER Observatory. In 2007 he lead the external communications team for the EU LIFE programme, with INSPIRING STORIES FOR A COMMUNITY LED FUTURE Although there are many great examples of inspirational community led initiatives helping their local areas flourish, we are just not hearing about them. It is surprising how little is known about Transition initiatives, eco-villages, permaculture and other grassroots projects that are prototyping a different future. Communities that have been

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Press Releases. ECOLISE welcomes EC Communication on Climate Pact Initiative. Communities for Future, a Europe-wide local community climate action programme, launched in Brussels Press release_28.9.2020. Hundreds of Communities in 26 countries celebrate the European Day of Sustainable Communities, 21 September 2019, Press

Release.

ECOVILLAGES

An ecovillage is an intentional or traditional community using local participatory processes to holistically integrate ecological, economic, social, and cultural dimensions of sustainability in order to regenerate social and natural environments. Ecovillages are communities with vibrant social structures, vastly diverse, yet united in common ecological, economic, social and cultural values and REGENERATIVE PRACTITIONER EUROPE COURSE, LISBON The Regenerative Practitioner provides a deep dive into the fundamental shifts in how we work and how we think that underly a regenerative approach to development of all kinds. Participants work together deeply over a four-month period to engage with the course curriculum, Regenesis instructors, and one another. The series consists of ten online videoconference 'COMMUNITIES FOR FUTURE' LAUNCHES ACROSS EUROPE WITH A A new action programme to inspire, empower and enable local community-led responses to the climate and ecological emergency is being launched via a series of events from 21st September, culminating in the ‘Brussels’ launch on Tues 29th September.. Online workshops to launch Communities for Future are being hosted in Croatia, Germany, Ireland, the Netherlands, Portugal and the UK. A DATE FOR YOU DIARY: EUROPEAN DAY OF SUSTAINABLE European Day of Sustainable Communities 2021 The European Day of Sustainable Communities is one of ECOLISE’s flagship events. It is a celebration of local communities taking action for a healthier, fairer, regenerative Europe. The 5th edition of the day takes place on 18th September 2021. Interested in co-creating the day? Subscribe to

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HOME - ECOLISEWHO WE AREWHAT WE DONEWSCOMMUNITIES IN ACTIONEVENTSRESOURCES ECOLISE is seeking candidates for three positions: Social Media Officer, Administrative Office and Project Manager. All positions are internet-based and independent of location, but with possibilities to work from the ECOLISE Office in Brussels. The positions are all part time, either 40% or 60% Full Time Equivalent. Applications are

invited.

ABOUT ECOLISE

ECOLISE Strategy, agreed at the members’ 4th General Assembly, 11 April 2019 ECOLISE, the European network for community-led initiatives on climate change and sustainability, recognises the unprecedented ecological, social, economic and political threats to dignified life on planet earth. These threats have been provoked by centuries of ongoing extractive and exploitative institutional

MEMBERS - ECOLISE

ECOLISE has 42 member organisations registered as legal entities in 17 different EU Member States – Belgium, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia, Spain, and Sweden – and Switzerland and the UK. The activities of ECOLISE members extend to all EU member states, as well as

OUR TEAM - ECOLISE

Eamon O’Hara (Executive Director) Eamon initiated and co-founded ECOLISE. He has been managing EU projects and initiatives on local development and the environment since 1994, both in Ireland and in Brussels where he worked with AEIDL and the European LEADER Observatory. In 2007 he lead the external communications team for the EU LIFE programme, with INSPIRING STORIES FOR A COMMUNITY LED FUTURE Although there are many great examples of inspirational community led initiatives helping their local areas flourish, we are just not hearing about them. It is surprising how little is known about Transition initiatives, eco-villages, permaculture and other grassroots projects that are prototyping a different future. Communities that have been

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Press Releases. ECOLISE welcomes EC Communication on Climate Pact Initiative. Communities for Future, a Europe-wide local community climate action programme, launched in Brussels Press release_28.9.2020. Hundreds of Communities in 26 countries celebrate the European Day of Sustainable Communities, 21 September 2019, Press

Release.

ECOVILLAGES

An ecovillage is an intentional or traditional community using local participatory processes to holistically integrate ecological, economic, social, and cultural dimensions of sustainability in order to regenerate social and natural environments. Ecovillages are communities with vibrant social structures, vastly diverse, yet united in common ecological, economic, social and cultural values and REGENERATIVE PRACTITIONER EUROPE COURSE, LISBON The Regenerative Practitioner provides a deep dive into the fundamental shifts in how we work and how we think that underly a regenerative approach to development of all kinds. Participants work together deeply over a four-month period to engage with the course curriculum, Regenesis instructors, and one another. The series consists of ten online videoconference 'COMMUNITIES FOR FUTURE' LAUNCHES ACROSS EUROPE WITH A A new action programme to inspire, empower and enable local community-led responses to the climate and ecological emergency is being launched via a series of events from 21st September, culminating in the ‘Brussels’ launch on Tues 29th September.. Online workshops to launch Communities for Future are being hosted in Croatia, Germany, Ireland, the Netherlands, Portugal and the UK. A DATE FOR YOU DIARY: EUROPEAN DAY OF SUSTAINABLE European Day of Sustainable Communities 2021 The European Day of Sustainable Communities is one of ECOLISE’s flagship events. It is a celebration of local communities taking action for a healthier, fairer, regenerative Europe. The 5th edition of the day takes place on 18th September 2021. Interested in co-creating the day? Subscribe to

our newsletter and

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ECOLISE communications aims ECOLISE communications supports the work of the network by: raising the profile of existing community-led action on climate change and sustainability in Europe. facilitating the sharing of information and experience within the network; with those on the edge of the network; and with supportive organisations, activists, educators and researchers. providing

ECOVILLAGES

An ecovillage is an intentional or traditional community using local participatory processes to holistically integrate ecological, economic, social, and cultural dimensions of sustainability in order to regenerate social and natural environments. Ecovillages are communities with vibrant social structures, vastly diverse, yet united in common ecological, economic, social and cultural values and ECOLISE PARTNER'S PROJECTS ECOLISE is the lead partner of the Erasmus+ strategic partnership BLAST – BLended Adult Learning for the Social-ecological Transition (2019-2021). Its purpose is to enable educators, trainers and others in delivering transformative learning opportunities to citizens, communities and professionals that engage as change-makers and game-changers in the social-ecological transition. ECOLISE has

PERMACULTURE

Permaculture is an ecological design system for sustainable living which offers practical and effective solutions to help people address global issues like food security, poverty, and the impacts of climate change at a local level. Grass-roots diffusion of knowledge about permaculture has led to an estimated 3 million practitioners worldwide, supported by around 280 strategic

MAP OF INITIATIVES

Map of initiatives - Ecolise. Categories. Ecovillages (57) Other (107) Permaculture (232) Transition (639) REGENERATIVE PRACTITIONER EUROPE COURSE, LISBON The Regenerative Practitioner provides a deep dive into the fundamental shifts in how we work and how we think that underly a regenerative approach to development of all kinds. Participants work together deeply over a four-month period to engage with the course curriculum, Regenesis instructors, and one another. The series consists of ten online videoconference

INSPIRING PEOPLE

Nothing Personal: A chance to meet inspiring people from around ECOLISE Hi, please introduce yourself. My name is Camilla Nielsen-Englyst. I live in Denmark in one of the many ecovillages that we have here. It is called Hallingelille. I’m engaged also in a national association of EUROPEAN ECOVILLAGE CONFERENCE 2020 Save the date! The 2020 European Ecovillage Conference will be held on the 28th-31st July 2020 in Nature Community, Germany, with the GA for members on the 25th-26th July. See www.gen-europe.org BLAST - BLENDED ADULT LEARNING FOR THE SOCIAL-ECOLOGICAL The purpose of the BLAST partnership is to enable educators, trainers, facilitators, mentors, researchers etc. in delivering transformative learning opportunities to citizens, communities and professionals that engage as change-makers and game-changers in the social-ecological transition. The aim is to help them contribute more joyfully and continuously to just sustainability transitions while

S T A TUS - ECOLISE

RepoSTATUSrt 2019 1. Background and Methodology The Status Report on Community-led Action on Sustainability and Climate Change in Europe takes a step towards making visible the state of the art of knowledge and understanding about community-led action on sustainability and climate change across Europe. Methodologically, it pioneers inclusive and open source methods, by facilitating collaborative HOME - ECOLISEWHO WE AREWHAT WE DONEWSCOMMUNITIES IN ACTIONEVENTSRESOURCES ECOLISE is seeking candidates for three positions: Social Media Officer, Administrative Office and Project Manager. All positions are internet-based and independent of location, but with possibilities to work from the ECOLISE Office in Brussels. The positions are all part time, either 40% or 60% Full Time Equivalent. Applications are

invited.

ABOUT ECOLISE

ECOLISE Strategy, agreed at the members’ 4th General Assembly, 11 April 2019 ECOLISE, the European network for community-led initiatives on climate change and sustainability, recognises the unprecedented ecological, social, economic and political threats to dignified life on planet earth. These threats have been provoked by centuries of ongoing extractive and exploitative institutional

MEMBERS - ECOLISE

ECOLISE has 42 member organisations registered as legal entities in 17 different EU Member States – Belgium, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia, Spain, and Sweden – and Switzerland and the UK. The activities of ECOLISE members extend to all EU member states, as well as

OUR TEAM - ECOLISE

Eamon O’Hara (Executive Director) Eamon initiated and co-founded ECOLISE. He has been managing EU projects and initiatives on local development and the environment since 1994, both in Ireland and in Brussels where he worked with AEIDL and the European LEADER Observatory. In 2007 he lead the external communications team for the EU LIFE programme, with INSPIRING STORIES FOR A COMMUNITY LED FUTURE Although there are many great examples of inspirational community led initiatives helping their local areas flourish, we are just not hearing about them. It is surprising how little is known about Transition initiatives, eco-villages, permaculture and other grassroots projects that are prototyping a different future. Communities that have been

COMMUNICATIONS

ECOLISE communications aims ECOLISE communications supports the work of the network by: raising the profile of existing community-led action on climate change and sustainability in Europe. facilitating the sharing of information and experience within the network; with those on the edge of the network; and with supportive organisations, activists, educators and researchers. providing SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES PROGRAMME Sustainable Communities Programme Spreading the benefits of community-led approaches across regions Thousands of pioneering local initiatives across Europe and the world have developed, implemented and refined collective approaches responding to the pressing sustainability challenges: permaculture and ecovillage design, nature-based solutions, local exchange trading systems, social REGENERATIVE PRACTITIONER EUROPE COURSE, LISBON The Regenerative Practitioner provides a deep dive into the fundamental shifts in how we work and how we think that underly a regenerative approach to development of all kinds. Participants work together deeply over a four-month period to engage with the course curriculum, Regenesis instructors, and one another. The series consists of ten online videoconference 'COMMUNITIES FOR FUTURE' LAUNCHES ACROSS EUROPE WITH A A new action programme to inspire, empower and enable local community-led responses to the climate and ecological emergency is being launched via a series of events from 21st September, culminating in the ‘Brussels’ launch on Tues 29th September.. Online workshops to launch Communities for Future are being hosted in Croatia, Germany, Ireland, the Netherlands, Portugal and the UK.

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HOME - ECOLISEWHO WE AREWHAT WE DONEWSCOMMUNITIES IN ACTIONEVENTSRESOURCES ECOLISE is seeking candidates for three positions: Social Media Officer, Administrative Office and Project Manager. All positions are internet-based and independent of location, but with possibilities to work from the ECOLISE Office in Brussels. The positions are all part time, either 40% or 60% Full Time Equivalent. Applications are

invited.

ABOUT ECOLISE

ECOLISE Strategy, agreed at the members’ 4th General Assembly, 11 April 2019 ECOLISE, the European network for community-led initiatives on climate change and sustainability, recognises the unprecedented ecological, social, economic and political threats to dignified life on planet earth. These threats have been provoked by centuries of ongoing extractive and exploitative institutional

MEMBERS - ECOLISE

ECOLISE has 42 member organisations registered as legal entities in 17 different EU Member States – Belgium, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia, Spain, and Sweden – and Switzerland and the UK. The activities of ECOLISE members extend to all EU member states, as well as

OUR TEAM - ECOLISE

Eamon O’Hara (Executive Director) Eamon initiated and co-founded ECOLISE. He has been managing EU projects and initiatives on local development and the environment since 1994, both in Ireland and in Brussels where he worked with AEIDL and the European LEADER Observatory. In 2007 he lead the external communications team for the EU LIFE programme, with INSPIRING STORIES FOR A COMMUNITY LED FUTURE Although there are many great examples of inspirational community led initiatives helping their local areas flourish, we are just not hearing about them. It is surprising how little is known about Transition initiatives, eco-villages, permaculture and other grassroots projects that are prototyping a different future. Communities that have been

COMMUNICATIONS

ECOLISE communications aims ECOLISE communications supports the work of the network by: raising the profile of existing community-led action on climate change and sustainability in Europe. facilitating the sharing of information and experience within the network; with those on the edge of the network; and with supportive organisations, activists, educators and researchers. providing SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES PROGRAMME Sustainable Communities Programme Spreading the benefits of community-led approaches across regions Thousands of pioneering local initiatives across Europe and the world have developed, implemented and refined collective approaches responding to the pressing sustainability challenges: permaculture and ecovillage design, nature-based solutions, local exchange trading systems, social REGENERATIVE PRACTITIONER EUROPE COURSE, LISBON The Regenerative Practitioner provides a deep dive into the fundamental shifts in how we work and how we think that underly a regenerative approach to development of all kinds. Participants work together deeply over a four-month period to engage with the course curriculum, Regenesis instructors, and one another. The series consists of ten online videoconference 'COMMUNITIES FOR FUTURE' LAUNCHES ACROSS EUROPE WITH A A new action programme to inspire, empower and enable local community-led responses to the climate and ecological emergency is being launched via a series of events from 21st September, culminating in the ‘Brussels’ launch on Tues 29th September.. Online workshops to launch Communities for Future are being hosted in Croatia, Germany, Ireland, the Netherlands, Portugal and the UK.

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ECOLISE communications aims ECOLISE communications supports the work of the network by: raising the profile of existing community-led action on climate change and sustainability in Europe. facilitating the sharing of information and experience within the network; with those on the edge of the network; and with supportive organisations, activists, educators and researchers. providing

PUBLICATIONS

Press Releases. ECOLISE welcomes EC Communication on Climate Pact Initiative. Communities for Future, a Europe-wide local community climate action programme, launched in Brussels Press release_28.9.2020. Hundreds of Communities in 26 countries celebrate the European Day of Sustainable Communities, 21 September 2019, Press

Release.

COUNCIL - ECOLISE

He has served two terms on its Council and in 2015 was elected president of GEN-Europe. From 2014-2015 he served as GEN-Europe managing director and since 2015 has served on the GEN international board. Robert was involved in the foundation of ECOLISE

NEWS - ECOLISE

ECOLISE annual General Assembly, 16th-18th April 2021 ONLINE. The 2021 ECOLISE General Assembly (GA) will take place virtually from April 16th-18th 2021. ECOLISE’s annual General Assembly is the ideal gathering at which to meet other ECOLISE members and review the work of our network in the year gone by. We will explore how we best

ECOVILLAGES

An ecovillage is an intentional or traditional community using local participatory processes to holistically integrate ecological, economic, social, and cultural dimensions of sustainability in order to regenerate social and natural environments. Ecovillages are communities with vibrant social structures, vastly diverse, yet united in common ecological, economic, social and cultural values and SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES PROGRAMME Sustainable Communities Programme Spreading the benefits of community-led approaches across regions. Thousands of pioneering local initiatives across Europe and the world have developed, implemented and refined collective approaches responding to the pressing sustainability challenges: permaculture and ecovillage design, nature-based solutions, local exchange trading systems, social KNOWLEDGE & LEARNING Knowledge and Learning is one of the pillars of ECOLISE’s work. The Knowledge and Learning coordinator, Markus Molz, and team have focussed on creating a knowledge commons for community-led action on sustainability and climate change, of which the wiki is a key element. In 2019 the team is further developing the Sustainable Communities

Programme and

PERMACULTURE

Permaculture is an ecological design system for sustainable living which offers practical and effective solutions to help people address global issues like food security, poverty, and the impacts of climate change at a local level. Grass-roots diffusion of knowledge about permaculture has led to an estimated 3 million practitioners worldwide, supported by around 280 strategic

MAP OF INITIATIVES

Map of initiatives - Ecolise. Categories. Ecovillages (57) Other (107) Permaculture (232) Transition (639)

HOME - ECOLISE

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HOME - ECOLISEWHO WE AREWHAT WE DONEWSCOMMUNITIES IN ACTIONEVENTSRESOURCES ECOLISE is seeking candidates for three positions: Social Media Officer, Administrative Office and Project Manager. All positions are internet-based and independent of location, but with possibilities to work from the ECOLISE Office in Brussels. The positions are all part time, either 40% or 60% Full Time Equivalent. Applications are

invited.

ABOUT ECOLISE

ECOLISE Strategy, agreed at the members’ 4th General Assembly, 11 April 2019 ECOLISE, the European network for community-led initiatives on climate change and sustainability, recognises the unprecedented ecological, social, economic and political threats to dignified life on planet earth. These threats have been provoked by centuries of ongoing extractive and exploitative institutional

MEMBERS - ECOLISE

ECOLISE has 42 member organisations registered as legal entities in 17 different EU Member States – Belgium, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia, Spain, and Sweden – and Switzerland and the UK. The activities of ECOLISE members extend to all EU member states, as well as

OUR TEAM - ECOLISE

Eamon O’Hara (Executive Director) Eamon initiated and co-founded ECOLISE. He has been managing EU projects and initiatives on local development and the environment since 1994, both in Ireland and in Brussels where he worked with AEIDL and the European LEADER Observatory. In 2007 he lead the external communications team for the EU LIFE programme, with INSPIRING STORIES FOR A COMMUNITY LED FUTURE Although there are many great examples of inspirational community led initiatives helping their local areas flourish, we are just not hearing about them. It is surprising how little is known about Transition initiatives, eco-villages, permaculture and other grassroots projects that are prototyping a different future. Communities that have been

COMMUNICATIONS

ECOLISE communications aims ECOLISE communications supports the work of the network by: raising the profile of existing community-led action on climate change and sustainability in Europe. facilitating the sharing of information and experience within the network; with those on the edge of the network; and with supportive organisations, activists, educators and researchers. providing SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES PROGRAMME Sustainable Communities Programme Spreading the benefits of community-led approaches across regions Thousands of pioneering local initiatives across Europe and the world have developed, implemented and refined collective approaches responding to the pressing sustainability challenges: permaculture and ecovillage design, nature-based solutions, local exchange trading systems, social REGENERATIVE PRACTITIONER EUROPE COURSE, LISBON The Regenerative Practitioner provides a deep dive into the fundamental shifts in how we work and how we think that underly a regenerative approach to development of all kinds. Participants work together deeply over a four-month period to engage with the course curriculum, Regenesis instructors, and one another. The series consists of ten online videoconference 'COMMUNITIES FOR FUTURE' LAUNCHES ACROSS EUROPE WITH A A new action programme to inspire, empower and enable local community-led responses to the climate and ecological emergency is being launched via a series of events from 21st September, culminating in the ‘Brussels’ launch on Tues 29th September.. Online workshops to launch Communities for Future are being hosted in Croatia, Germany, Ireland, the Netherlands, Portugal and the UK.

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HOME - ECOLISEWHO WE AREWHAT WE DONEWSCOMMUNITIES IN ACTIONEVENTSRESOURCES ECOLISE is seeking candidates for three positions: Social Media Officer, Administrative Office and Project Manager. All positions are internet-based and independent of location, but with possibilities to work from the ECOLISE Office in Brussels. The positions are all part time, either 40% or 60% Full Time Equivalent. Applications are

invited.

ABOUT ECOLISE

ECOLISE Strategy, agreed at the members’ 4th General Assembly, 11 April 2019 ECOLISE, the European network for community-led initiatives on climate change and sustainability, recognises the unprecedented ecological, social, economic and political threats to dignified life on planet earth. These threats have been provoked by centuries of ongoing extractive and exploitative institutional

MEMBERS - ECOLISE

ECOLISE has 42 member organisations registered as legal entities in 17 different EU Member States – Belgium, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia, Spain, and Sweden – and Switzerland and the UK. The activities of ECOLISE members extend to all EU member states, as well as

OUR TEAM - ECOLISE

Eamon O’Hara (Executive Director) Eamon initiated and co-founded ECOLISE. He has been managing EU projects and initiatives on local development and the environment since 1994, both in Ireland and in Brussels where he worked with AEIDL and the European LEADER Observatory. In 2007 he lead the external communications team for the EU LIFE programme, with INSPIRING STORIES FOR A COMMUNITY LED FUTURE Although there are many great examples of inspirational community led initiatives helping their local areas flourish, we are just not hearing about them. It is surprising how little is known about Transition initiatives, eco-villages, permaculture and other grassroots projects that are prototyping a different future. Communities that have been

COMMUNICATIONS

ECOLISE communications aims ECOLISE communications supports the work of the network by: raising the profile of existing community-led action on climate change and sustainability in Europe. facilitating the sharing of information and experience within the network; with those on the edge of the network; and with supportive organisations, activists, educators and researchers. providing SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES PROGRAMME Sustainable Communities Programme Spreading the benefits of community-led approaches across regions Thousands of pioneering local initiatives across Europe and the world have developed, implemented and refined collective approaches responding to the pressing sustainability challenges: permaculture and ecovillage design, nature-based solutions, local exchange trading systems, social REGENERATIVE PRACTITIONER EUROPE COURSE, LISBON The Regenerative Practitioner provides a deep dive into the fundamental shifts in how we work and how we think that underly a regenerative approach to development of all kinds. Participants work together deeply over a four-month period to engage with the course curriculum, Regenesis instructors, and one another. The series consists of ten online videoconference 'COMMUNITIES FOR FUTURE' LAUNCHES ACROSS EUROPE WITH A A new action programme to inspire, empower and enable local community-led responses to the climate and ecological emergency is being launched via a series of events from 21st September, culminating in the ‘Brussels’ launch on Tues 29th September.. Online workshops to launch Communities for Future are being hosted in Croatia, Germany, Ireland, the Netherlands, Portugal and the UK.

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ECOLISE communications aims ECOLISE communications supports the work of the network by: raising the profile of existing community-led action on climate change and sustainability in Europe. facilitating the sharing of information and experience within the network; with those on the edge of the network; and with supportive organisations, activists, educators and researchers. providing

PUBLICATIONS

Press Releases. ECOLISE welcomes EC Communication on Climate Pact Initiative. Communities for Future, a Europe-wide local community climate action programme, launched in Brussels Press release_28.9.2020. Hundreds of Communities in 26 countries celebrate the European Day of Sustainable Communities, 21 September 2019, Press

Release.

COUNCIL - ECOLISE

He has served two terms on its Council and in 2015 was elected president of GEN-Europe. From 2014-2015 he served as GEN-Europe managing director and since 2015 has served on the GEN international board. Robert was involved in the foundation of ECOLISE

NEWS - ECOLISE

ECOLISE annual General Assembly, 16th-18th April 2021 ONLINE. The 2021 ECOLISE General Assembly (GA) will take place virtually from April 16th-18th 2021. ECOLISE’s annual General Assembly is the ideal gathering at which to meet other ECOLISE members and review the work of our network in the year gone by. We will explore how we best

ECOVILLAGES

An ecovillage is an intentional or traditional community using local participatory processes to holistically integrate ecological, economic, social, and cultural dimensions of sustainability in order to regenerate social and natural environments. Ecovillages are communities with vibrant social structures, vastly diverse, yet united in common ecological, economic, social and cultural values and SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES PROGRAMME Sustainable Communities Programme Spreading the benefits of community-led approaches across regions. Thousands of pioneering local initiatives across Europe and the world have developed, implemented and refined collective approaches responding to the pressing sustainability challenges: permaculture and ecovillage design, nature-based solutions, local exchange trading systems, social KNOWLEDGE & LEARNING Knowledge and Learning is one of the pillars of ECOLISE’s work. The Knowledge and Learning coordinator, Markus Molz, and team have focussed on creating a knowledge commons for community-led action on sustainability and climate change, of which the wiki is a key element. In 2019 the team is further developing the Sustainable Communities

Programme and

PERMACULTURE

Permaculture is an ecological design system for sustainable living which offers practical and effective solutions to help people address global issues like food security, poverty, and the impacts of climate change at a local level. Grass-roots diffusion of knowledge about permaculture has led to an estimated 3 million practitioners worldwide, supported by around 280 strategic

MAP OF INITIATIVES

Map of initiatives - Ecolise. Categories. Ecovillages (57) Other (107) Permaculture (232) Transition (639)

HOME - ECOLISE

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HOME - ECOLISEWHO WE AREWHAT WE DONEWSCOMMUNITIES IN ACTIONEVENTSRESOURCES ECOLISE is seeking candidates for three positions: Social Media Officer, Administrative Office and Project Manager. All positions are internet-based and independent of location, but with possibilities to work from the ECOLISE Office in Brussels. The positions are all part time, either 40% or 60% Full Time Equivalent. Applications are

invited.

ABOUT ECOLISE

ECOLISE Strategy, agreed at the members’ 4th General Assembly, 11 April 2019 ECOLISE, the European network for community-led initiatives on climate change and sustainability, recognises the unprecedented ecological, social, economic and political threats to dignified life on planet earth. These threats have been provoked by centuries of ongoing extractive and exploitative institutional

MEMBERS - ECOLISE

ECOLISE has 42 member organisations registered as legal entities in 17 different EU Member States – Belgium, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia, Spain, and Sweden – and Switzerland and the UK. The activities of ECOLISE members extend to all EU member states, as well as

OUR TEAM - ECOLISE

Eamon O’Hara (Executive Director) Eamon initiated and co-founded ECOLISE. He has been managing EU projects and initiatives on local development and the environment since 1994, both in Ireland and in Brussels where he worked with AEIDL and the European LEADER Observatory. In 2007 he lead the external communications team for the EU LIFE programme, with INSPIRING STORIES FOR A COMMUNITY LED FUTURE Although there are many great examples of inspirational community led initiatives helping their local areas flourish, we are just not hearing about them. It is surprising how little is known about Transition initiatives, eco-villages, permaculture and other grassroots projects that are prototyping a different future. Communities that have been

COUNCIL - ECOLISE

He has served two terms on its Council and in 2015 was elected president of GEN-Europe. From 2014-2015 he served as GEN-Europe managing director and since 2015 has served on the GEN international board. Robert was involved in the foundation of ECOLISE

COMMUNICATIONS

ECOLISE communications aims ECOLISE communications supports the work of the network by: raising the profile of existing community-led action on climate change and sustainability in Europe. facilitating the sharing of information and experience within the network; with those on the edge of the network; and with supportive organisations, activists, educators and researchers. providing SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES PROGRAMME Sustainable Communities Programme Spreading the benefits of community-led approaches across regions Thousands of pioneering local initiatives across Europe and the world have developed, implemented and refined collective approaches responding to the pressing sustainability challenges: permaculture and ecovillage design, nature-based solutions, local exchange trading systems, social 'COMMUNITIES FOR FUTURE' LAUNCHES ACROSS EUROPE WITH A A new action programme to inspire, empower and enable local community-led responses to the climate and ecological emergency is being launched via a series of events from 21st September, culminating in the ‘Brussels’ launch on Tues 29th September.. Online workshops to launch Communities for Future are being hosted in Croatia, Germany, Ireland, the Netherlands, Portugal and the UK. REGENERATIVE PRACTITIONER EUROPE COURSE, LISBON The Regenerative Practitioner provides a deep dive into the fundamental shifts in how we work and how we think that underly a regenerative approach to development of all kinds. Participants work together deeply over a four-month period to engage with the course curriculum, Regenesis instructors, and one another. The series consists of ten online videoconference HOME - ECOLISEWHO WE AREWHAT WE DONEWSCOMMUNITIES IN ACTIONEVENTSRESOURCES ECOLISE is seeking candidates for three positions: Social Media Officer, Administrative Office and Project Manager. All positions are internet-based and independent of location, but with possibilities to work from the ECOLISE Office in Brussels. The positions are all part time, either 40% or 60% Full Time Equivalent. Applications are

invited.

ABOUT ECOLISE

ECOLISE Strategy, agreed at the members’ 4th General Assembly, 11 April 2019 ECOLISE, the European network for community-led initiatives on climate change and sustainability, recognises the unprecedented ecological, social, economic and political threats to dignified life on planet earth. These threats have been provoked by centuries of ongoing extractive and exploitative institutional

MEMBERS - ECOLISE

ECOLISE has 42 member organisations registered as legal entities in 17 different EU Member States – Belgium, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia, Spain, and Sweden – and Switzerland and the UK. The activities of ECOLISE members extend to all EU member states, as well as

OUR TEAM - ECOLISE

Eamon O’Hara (Executive Director) Eamon initiated and co-founded ECOLISE. He has been managing EU projects and initiatives on local development and the environment since 1994, both in Ireland and in Brussels where he worked with AEIDL and the European LEADER Observatory. In 2007 he lead the external communications team for the EU LIFE programme, with INSPIRING STORIES FOR A COMMUNITY LED FUTURE Although there are many great examples of inspirational community led initiatives helping their local areas flourish, we are just not hearing about them. It is surprising how little is known about Transition initiatives, eco-villages, permaculture and other grassroots projects that are prototyping a different future. Communities that have been

COUNCIL - ECOLISE

He has served two terms on its Council and in 2015 was elected president of GEN-Europe. From 2014-2015 he served as GEN-Europe managing director and since 2015 has served on the GEN international board. Robert was involved in the foundation of ECOLISE

COMMUNICATIONS

ECOLISE communications aims ECOLISE communications supports the work of the network by: raising the profile of existing community-led action on climate change and sustainability in Europe. facilitating the sharing of information and experience within the network; with those on the edge of the network; and with supportive organisations, activists, educators and researchers. providing SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES PROGRAMME Sustainable Communities Programme Spreading the benefits of community-led approaches across regions Thousands of pioneering local initiatives across Europe and the world have developed, implemented and refined collective approaches responding to the pressing sustainability challenges: permaculture and ecovillage design, nature-based solutions, local exchange trading systems, social

RESEARCH - ECOLISE

Research is key to ECOLISE’s work. The Research coordinator, Tom Henfrey, and team are focussed on capturing the diversity and breadth of research about community-led action on sustainability and climate change as part of ECOLISE’s commitment to create a knowledge commons. They compiled the first Status Report of community-led initiatives in Europe, drawing on material gathered

COUNCIL - ECOLISE

He has served two terms on its Council and in 2015 was elected president of GEN-Europe. From 2014-2015 he served as GEN-Europe managing director and since 2015 has served on the GEN international board. Robert was involved in the foundation of ECOLISE

NEWS - ECOLISE

ECOLISE annual General Assembly, 16th-18th April 2021 ONLINE. The 2021 ECOLISE General Assembly (GA) will take place virtually from April 16th-18th 2021. ECOLISE’s annual General Assembly is the ideal gathering at which to meet other ECOLISE members and review the work of our network in the year gone by. We will explore how we best

JOIN US - ECOLISE

Join us - Ecolise. If you are interested in becoming a member of ECOLISE, please fill and submit the form below and we will send you application details. *All fields are required. First Name *. Last Name *. Enter your Email address *. Organisation / Initiative Name *. Website of organisation *. ECOLISE AS A PLATFORM ECOLISE is a social resource of European community-led initiatives on climate change and sustainability. It is managed as a commons by representatives of ECOLISE member organisations. “The commons is not a resource. It is a resource plus a defined community and the protocols, values and norms devised by the community to manage its resources.Many resources urgently need to be managed as KNOWLEDGE & LEARNING Knowledge and Learning is one of the pillars of ECOLISE’s work. The Knowledge and Learning coordinator, Markus Molz, and team have focussed on creating a knowledge commons for community-led action on sustainability and climate change, of which the wiki is a key element. In 2019 the team is further developing the Sustainable Communities

Programme and

ECOVILLAGES

An ecovillage is an intentional or traditional community using local participatory processes to holistically integrate ecological, economic, social, and cultural dimensions of sustainability in order to regenerate social and natural environments. Ecovillages are communities with vibrant social structures, vastly diverse, yet united in common ecological, economic, social and cultural values and REGENERATIVE PRACTITIONER EUROPE COURSE, LISBON The Regenerative Practitioner provides a deep dive into the fundamental shifts in how we work and how we think that underly a regenerative approach to development of all kinds. Participants work together deeply over a four-month period to engage with the course curriculum, Regenesis instructors, and one another. The series consists of ten online videoconference

S T A TUS - ECOLISE

RepoSTATUSrt 2019 1. Background and Methodology The Status Report on Community-led Action on Sustainability and Climate Change in Europe takes a step towards making visible the state of the art of knowledge and understanding about community-led action on sustainability and climate change across Europe. Methodologically, it pioneers inclusive and open source methods, by facilitating collaborative

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HOME - ECOLISEWHO WE AREWHAT WE DONEWSCOMMUNITIES IN ACTIONEVENTSRESOURCES ECOLISE is seeking candidates for three positions: Social Media Officer, Administrative Office and Project Manager. All positions are internet-based and independent of location, but with possibilities to work from the ECOLISE Office in Brussels. The positions are all part time, either 40% or 60% Full Time Equivalent. Applications are

invited.

ABOUT ECOLISE

ECOLISE Strategy, agreed at the members’ 4th General Assembly, 11 April 2019 ECOLISE, the European network for community-led initiatives on climate change and sustainability, recognises the unprecedented ecological, social, economic and political threats to dignified life on planet earth. These threats have been provoked by centuries of ongoing extractive and exploitative institutional

MEMBERS - ECOLISE

ECOLISE has 42 member organisations registered as legal entities in 17 different EU Member States – Belgium, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia, Spain, and Sweden – and Switzerland and the UK. The activities of ECOLISE members extend to all EU member states, as well as

OUR TEAM - ECOLISE

Eamon O’Hara (Executive Director) Eamon initiated and co-founded ECOLISE. He has been managing EU projects and initiatives on local development and the environment since 1994, both in Ireland and in Brussels where he worked with AEIDL and the European LEADER Observatory. In 2007 he lead the external communications team for the EU LIFE programme, with INSPIRING STORIES FOR A COMMUNITY LED FUTURE Although there are many great examples of inspirational community led initiatives helping their local areas flourish, we are just not hearing about them. It is surprising how little is known about Transition initiatives, eco-villages, permaculture and other grassroots projects that are prototyping a different future. Communities that have been

COUNCIL - ECOLISE

He has served two terms on its Council and in 2015 was elected president of GEN-Europe. From 2014-2015 he served as GEN-Europe managing director and since 2015 has served on the GEN international board. Robert was involved in the foundation of ECOLISE

COMMUNICATIONS

ECOLISE communications aims ECOLISE communications supports the work of the network by: raising the profile of existing community-led action on climate change and sustainability in Europe. facilitating the sharing of information and experience within the network; with those on the edge of the network; and with supportive organisations, activists, educators and researchers. providing SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES PROGRAMME Sustainable Communities Programme Spreading the benefits of community-led approaches across regions Thousands of pioneering local initiatives across Europe and the world have developed, implemented and refined collective approaches responding to the pressing sustainability challenges: permaculture and ecovillage design, nature-based solutions, local exchange trading systems, social 'COMMUNITIES FOR FUTURE' LAUNCHES ACROSS EUROPE WITH A A new action programme to inspire, empower and enable local community-led responses to the climate and ecological emergency is being launched via a series of events from 21st September, culminating in the ‘Brussels’ launch on Tues 29th September.. Online workshops to launch Communities for Future are being hosted in Croatia, Germany, Ireland, the Netherlands, Portugal and the UK. REGENERATIVE PRACTITIONER EUROPE COURSE, LISBON The Regenerative Practitioner provides a deep dive into the fundamental shifts in how we work and how we think that underly a regenerative approach to development of all kinds. Participants work together deeply over a four-month period to engage with the course curriculum, Regenesis instructors, and one another. The series consists of ten online videoconference HOME - ECOLISEWHO WE AREWHAT WE DONEWSCOMMUNITIES IN ACTIONEVENTSRESOURCES ECOLISE is seeking candidates for three positions: Social Media Officer, Administrative Office and Project Manager. All positions are internet-based and independent of location, but with possibilities to work from the ECOLISE Office in Brussels. The positions are all part time, either 40% or 60% Full Time Equivalent. Applications are

invited.

ABOUT ECOLISE

ECOLISE Strategy, agreed at the members’ 4th General Assembly, 11 April 2019 ECOLISE, the European network for community-led initiatives on climate change and sustainability, recognises the unprecedented ecological, social, economic and political threats to dignified life on planet earth. These threats have been provoked by centuries of ongoing extractive and exploitative institutional

MEMBERS - ECOLISE

ECOLISE has 42 member organisations registered as legal entities in 17 different EU Member States – Belgium, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia, Spain, and Sweden – and Switzerland and the UK. The activities of ECOLISE members extend to all EU member states, as well as

OUR TEAM - ECOLISE

Eamon O’Hara (Executive Director) Eamon initiated and co-founded ECOLISE. He has been managing EU projects and initiatives on local development and the environment since 1994, both in Ireland and in Brussels where he worked with AEIDL and the European LEADER Observatory. In 2007 he lead the external communications team for the EU LIFE programme, with INSPIRING STORIES FOR A COMMUNITY LED FUTURE Although there are many great examples of inspirational community led initiatives helping their local areas flourish, we are just not hearing about them. It is surprising how little is known about Transition initiatives, eco-villages, permaculture and other grassroots projects that are prototyping a different future. Communities that have been

COUNCIL - ECOLISE

He has served two terms on its Council and in 2015 was elected president of GEN-Europe. From 2014-2015 he served as GEN-Europe managing director and since 2015 has served on the GEN international board. Robert was involved in the foundation of ECOLISE

COMMUNICATIONS

ECOLISE communications aims ECOLISE communications supports the work of the network by: raising the profile of existing community-led action on climate change and sustainability in Europe. facilitating the sharing of information and experience within the network; with those on the edge of the network; and with supportive organisations, activists, educators and researchers. providing SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES PROGRAMME Sustainable Communities Programme Spreading the benefits of community-led approaches across regions Thousands of pioneering local initiatives across Europe and the world have developed, implemented and refined collective approaches responding to the pressing sustainability challenges: permaculture and ecovillage design, nature-based solutions, local exchange trading systems, social 'COMMUNITIES FOR FUTURE' LAUNCHES ACROSS EUROPE WITH A A new action programme to inspire, empower and enable local community-led responses to the climate and ecological emergency is being launched via a series of events from 21st September, culminating in the ‘Brussels’ launch on Tues 29th September.. Online workshops to launch Communities for Future are being hosted in Croatia, Germany, Ireland, the Netherlands, Portugal and the UK. REGENERATIVE PRACTITIONER EUROPE COURSE, LISBON The Regenerative Practitioner provides a deep dive into the fundamental shifts in how we work and how we think that underly a regenerative approach to development of all kinds. Participants work together deeply over a four-month period to engage with the course curriculum, Regenesis instructors, and one another. The series consists of ten online videoconference

RESEARCH - ECOLISE

Research is key to ECOLISE’s work. The Research coordinator, Tom Henfrey, and team are focussed on capturing the diversity and breadth of research about community-led action on sustainability and climate change as part of ECOLISE’s commitment to create a knowledge commons. They compiled the first Status Report of community-led initiatives in Europe, drawing on material gathered

COUNCIL - ECOLISE

He has served two terms on its Council and in 2015 was elected president of GEN-Europe. From 2014-2015 he served as GEN-Europe managing director and since 2015 has served on the GEN international board. Robert was involved in the foundation of ECOLISE

NEWS - ECOLISE

ECOLISE annual General Assembly, 16th-18th April 2021 ONLINE. The 2021 ECOLISE General Assembly (GA) will take place virtually from April 16th-18th 2021. ECOLISE’s annual General Assembly is the ideal gathering at which to meet other ECOLISE members and review the work of our network in the year gone by. We will explore how we best

JOIN US - ECOLISE

Join us - Ecolise. If you are interested in becoming a member of ECOLISE, please fill and submit the form below and we will send you application details. *All fields are required. First Name *. Last Name *. Enter your Email address *. Organisation / Initiative Name *. Website of organisation *. ECOLISE AS A PLATFORM ECOLISE is a social resource of European community-led initiatives on climate change and sustainability. It is managed as a commons by representatives of ECOLISE member organisations. “The commons is not a resource. It is a resource plus a defined community and the protocols, values and norms devised by the community to manage its resources.Many resources urgently need to be managed as KNOWLEDGE & LEARNING Knowledge and Learning is one of the pillars of ECOLISE’s work. The Knowledge and Learning coordinator, Markus Molz, and team have focussed on creating a knowledge commons for community-led action on sustainability and climate change, of which the wiki is a key element. In 2019 the team is further developing the Sustainable Communities

Programme and

ECOVILLAGES

An ecovillage is an intentional or traditional community using local participatory processes to holistically integrate ecological, economic, social, and cultural dimensions of sustainability in order to regenerate social and natural environments. Ecovillages are communities with vibrant social structures, vastly diverse, yet united in common ecological, economic, social and cultural values and REGENERATIVE PRACTITIONER EUROPE COURSE, LISBON The Regenerative Practitioner provides a deep dive into the fundamental shifts in how we work and how we think that underly a regenerative approach to development of all kinds. Participants work together deeply over a four-month period to engage with the course curriculum, Regenesis instructors, and one another. The series consists of ten online videoconference

S T A TUS - ECOLISE

RepoSTATUSrt 2019 1. Background and Methodology The Status Report on Community-led Action on Sustainability and Climate Change in Europe takes a step towards making visible the state of the art of knowledge and understanding about community-led action on sustainability and climate change across Europe. Methodologically, it pioneers inclusive and open source methods, by facilitating collaborative

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ECOLISE COUNCIL ISSUES STATEMENT REGARDING THE APPEALS BOARD REVIEW OF THE ‘REPORT ON ALLEGATIONS OF GROSS MISCONDUCT’

31st May 2021

The ECOLISE Council issued the following statement to members on 31st May 2021. ECOLISE Council decision regarding the Appeals Board review of the “Report on Allegations of Gross Misconduct” Part 1 – Appeals Board Systemic Analysis The Council wishes to acknowledge the multilayered conflict among ECOLISE contributors, not limited to

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31st May 2021

Transformation through local community climate action A diverse European network of grassroots movements and organisations today launched the 5th European Day of Sustainable Communities (EDSC). They made a special call to young people, who a recent survey shows are more concerned about climate change than the threat of infectious

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ECOLISE ELECTS NEW COUNCIL, AGREES PARTICIPATORY EVALUATION PROCESS

29th April 2021

Over 70 people from across the ECOLISE network gathered online in mid April 2021 for the organisation’s annual General Assembly. After an opening session which included a whistle stop tour of members’ activities, the meeting brought to light significant challenges and conflict within the organisation. The following documents were

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