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…
“From I to the We: Yes to Sustainability!” 8th-16th of August, Svinijsko, Slovenia In August, six young Italians started off to the Zavod Veles eco-village in Slovenia. Together with other young people from the Netherlands, Slovenia and Spain they experienced 8 days of community life with the main objective of learning more about ecological sustainability….
From the 3rd to the 13th of May, six young Italians left for eco-village Hallingelille in Denmark, with the purpose of “tasting” some bites of community life. Since three years, RIVE’s International Team researches and creates inter-cultural and educational opportunities for young people and adults through the funding of the Erasmus + Program of the…
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…