The Youth Exchange “From Gray to Green” was organized in Slovenia (with support from European Union funding, Petra and her permacultural farm Veles, National Agency Movit who was always there answering our questions, Sustainable venue Metta which hosted us and of course YTS network which at the beginning connected us through the partnership and gave…
From the 4th to 11th of August 2022, eighteen of us from more than ten European countries gathered at the permaculture farm Veles in Svinjsko, Slovenia. Thanks to the Erasmus+ program, Yes To Sustainability network, Kmetija Veles as the hosting venue and our sending organizations, the project Leader in me 3.0 fulfilled its aim to…
ERASMUS+ Youth Exchange at Haus Sonnenwald, a German eco-community in Black Forest What is it like to not only be offline for 10 days, but also to completely do without digital media? What does that actually include? And how does it feel to experience this with strangers in a community? In the countryside – without…
From 7 to 11 May 2022, our team of youth workers from Italy, Germany, Serbia, Slovenia and Spain gathered at the Veles ecofarm in Slovenia for the fourth Transnational Project Meeting of the Erasmus+ Yes To Sustainability Partnership project, coordinated by GEN Europe. After almost a year of online meetings and the last TPM3 in…
Once again, under the Yes to sustainability network, young people by heart, youth workers, from 10 countries gain an opportunity to discover and co-create leaders in themselves during training on Zavod Veles in Slovenia. Topics we explored together were sustainability in practice and as an inspiring learning space, public speaking, toxic leadership and qualities of…
“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,…