“Intense world issues are flowing through us. To make peace happen in the world, we need to work on our own issues deep inside. To pacify our relationship to ourselves, to others, to our society. Thanks to acceptance of our emotions and shadows, we can let energy flow, so we can step into our power…
From the 4th to the 8th of October, a team of youth workers from Italy, Germany, Serbia, Slovenia, Netherlands and Spain met in the ecovillage Sieben Linden in Germany for the third Transnational Project Meeting of the Erasmus+ project Yes To Sustainability Partnership, coordinated by GEN Europe. Even though all the team was willing to…
Let’s Cooperate: A way for an Inclusive and Sustainable International Cooperation was an event financed by the Erasmus + Program of the European Union, and organized by Centro Orientamento Educativo with Yes to Sustainability. For a period of 10 days, this youth exchange took place in the beautiful eco-community of Orosia, located in Bollengo, province of…
The seventh youth exchange of the international project “Yes to sustainability” took place this time under the name “Youth on Earth: Yes we (c)are” in ZEGG. 30 young people from France, Slovenia, Spain and Germany met from 25 August to 3 September at the ZEGG Ecovillage in Bad Belzig.The aim of the project is to enable young…
Finally, after months of online meetings, a colourful bunch of young people and youth workers from ecovillages and sustainable projects in Italy, Germany, Serbia, Netherlands, Spain and Slovenia, all members of the Erasmus+ Strategic Partnership “Yes To Sustainability”, met between the 7th and the 15th of June at the beautiful retreat and seminar center Jandala,…
Yes To Sustainability is a project with a mission: to empower young people through giving them life-changing experience in ecovillages and sustainable communities. After several years of creating youth exchanges – short, fully funded experiences for youth in ecovillages – YtS has now been funded by Erasmus+ to strengthen its network and share best practices…
Youth Exchange at Haus Sonnenwald, a German eco-community in Black ForestDigital detox and nature connection for sustainable living In autumn 2020 eight Germans, eight Italians and eight Slovenians went to the Black Forest to experience each other, themselves and nature, without any digital media. They are guests of the Sonnenwald Community, which has existed since March…
Training Course in Torri Superiori Ecovillage, Italy From 13th to 20th of October 24 participants from Italy, Spain, Denmark, Germany, Portugal, Slovenia, France, Finland, Sweden, Greece and the Netherlands participated in an Erasmus+ Training entitled “Young Leaders for Sustainability” organized by Cooperativa Ture Nirvane in Torri Superiore, an ecovillage in the north-west of Italy. In the training…
Training Course in Small Footprint Ecovillage, Estonia “Sustainability Youth Exchanges”: a training course to share knowledge about youth exchanges, held in Estonia from 1st to 5th September 2020 Väike Jalajälg Ökokeskus (Small Footprint ecovillage) in Estonia is a dream come true. It started 6 years ago as an outcome of the Gaia programme in Estonia,…
SLOVENIAN version below Training Course in Zavod Veles Sustainability Initiative – Slovenia A colorful summer is way behind us. And it has taken some time to really internalize and evaluate the moments that have occurred to us in the year 2019. One of such event is the “Leader in Me” training within the EU Erasmus…