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 an international project that aims to bring together young people from different regions of Europe by organizing different Youth Exchanges in different european ecovillages funded by Erasmus+. Participants can participate in one or more Youth Exchange and are fully funded by the Erasmus+ Program. OUR VISION Our vision is to encourage…
From the 1st to the 9th of October, we had our thrid Youth Exchange of the year in Lakabe community, one of the oldest ecovillage in Europe. Lakabe was an abandoned village squatted 37 years ago in 1980. During 9 days young people from Italy, The Nethelands, Germany, Basque Country and Spain were doing different…
Here a beautiful video from Slovenian Youth Exchange in Zavod Veles! Thank you Manouk Eenig, Aday López , Lars van Dorsselaer and all those who created it! Thank you Petra Jazbec and all Zavod Veles Family and team! It looks so nice! Soon, some of us will meet in Sieben Linden ecovillage to design more…
PROGRAM? Mornings: Hands on practical activities on low impact ways of living such as: construction, landscape management, permaculture gardening, picking wild plants with community members. Some of these activities will be done with locals. Afternoons: Exploration time, workshops and intercultural activities between the group and community members and self-development exploration time in groups. WHERE? Lakabe…
By Lars van Dorsselaer Arrival and first day On Monday, after a warm welcome by a long term volunteer at the station of Sevnica, we drove towards the Ecofarm Zavod Veles in Svinjsko, Slovenia. Arrived there at 23h00, I got introduced to other participants and the owners hanging out by the campfire. Shortly after, I…
One day during the exchange we were doing a dreaming game and writing down our dreams in a collective process. Each person had to write one dream in a paper and after some minutes pass the paper to the next person. These are some of the dreams that came up: “We are a group of…
HOW DID YOU FIND OUT ABOUT THIS EXCHANGE? I found about it via facebook. WHAT DID YOU WANT TO LEARN IN THIS EXCHANGE? I wanted to find out how an ecovillage functions, see in practice what it is. WHAT SURPRISED YOU THE MOST IN HALLINGELILLE? The zebra that lives here. DID YOU FIND IT CHALLENGING…
STEFANO, 19, BERGAMO, ITALIA HOW IS YOUR INTERNAL WEATHER TODAY? Clear sky with a little breeze in the sunset. WHY DID YOU DECIDE TO COME TO THIS EXCHANGE? I wanted to explore alternatives in community living, ecological and economical possibilities. I also wanted to learn new things about myself, about others, have new experiences and…