Annual Report 2020 - Global Ecovillage Network

The Global Ecovillage Network is a growing and
evolving international network of regenerative
communities and initiatives. 2020, our 25th year of
existence, saw us go through several changes, in how
we are organised, meet new challenges, and refine
and recommit to our purpose of spreading ecovillage
living through supporting communities and individuals
design and implement their own pathways to a
regenerative future.
This year’s Annual Report presents the activities,
impact, vision and mission of GEN and the
organisations that make up the key parts of our
network - the GEN regions and GEN International. The
content of is organised in different sections to ease
your reading.
We first provide an overview of GEN and our
core frameworks, key performance indicators,
and highlights of the year. We then share the
accomplishments from GEN’s five Regions and
NextGEN, our youth arm, celebrating the wealth of
action and cultural diversity of the journey towards
low impact, regenerative lifestyles around the planet.
We hope you will enjoy the journey through 2020
with us!
Letter from President
Letter from Directors
About GEN
GEN’s Call to Action
Engagement
GEN’s Impact & Key Performance Indicators in 2020
2020 Restructuring Process
What we did in 2020
GEN Projects & Collaborations in 2020
GEN Ambassadors
GEN Financial Foundations
GEN Team
Strategic Objectives for 2021
Celebrating GEN’s 25 Years
GEN Regions
GEN Africa
CASA Latina
Europe
GENNA
GENOA
Next GEN

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INTRODUCTION TABLE OF CONTENTS

Letter from President of the Board of Trustees
Dear General Assembly,
Thisletterisdedicatedtoyou,intheconfigurationoftheCircleofGuardiansoftheNetwork.Youare
themostimportantmeetingspaceoftheNetworkandyouaretheorganwiththegreatestpowerof
theorganisationthattodayhasthehonourofbeingtheglobalrepresentativeofourvoices.
At the time of writing this letter, we are preparing to elect a new Board of Trustees for GEN
International and, once again, this organisation will be in your hands and you will decide the team
that will be responsible for taking care of its viability and accompanying the brilliant global team.
Such responsibility of the GA, was at the same level of importance as the choice we
made together to respond to the challenges and changes with a participatory process for
restructuring, which has yielded results that continue to emerge as we walk the implementation
of a participatory governance and mixed strategies for financial sustainability. Many details of
the current status and future possibilities of the organisation will be shared by the wonderful
team of Interim Trustees in their official report. You will see more details of what has been
achieved during 2020 in here.
However, what remains to be seen will be the potential of the interactions that the Circle
of Guardians of the Network can foster, with the help of the Global Team, to achieve those
collaborations that help us to continue promoting lifestyles in common-unity. Because even
2020 has been a year of challenging circumstances and structural transformations, for GEN, for
our nations and for the planet, who among us has had the good fortune to be grateful for having
decided on a lifestyle that promotes exactly that…life? How much more can we contribute to the
world from the exercise of being: being communities, being ecovillages, being sustainable and
regenerative settlements?
So let’s see what we did together in 2020. Let’s celebrate the love, conviction and dedication of
the leaders, funders and supporters who have left and those who will remain for an announced
time. Let’s celebrate the previous Board of Trustees and the current dedicated Interim Board.
Let’s celebrate the Global Team and their courageous spirit. Let’s celebrate the outgoing
General Assembly and the entire global network family that made possible the voices of
those living examples of community and regeneration
that the Global Team can amplify today.
Let’s celebrate the emerging vision of GEN as a living organism,
Jennifer Trujillo Obando

Letter from Directors
Dear Readers,
In 2020, the world rapidly changed with the impact that Covid-19 had and still has on our daily
lives and communities. GEN too, went through big changes, stepping into a process of network-
wide inquiry, re-visioning and transformation of who we are, our ways of working, and our
impact in the world.
With Kosha Joubert leaving the role of Executive Director of GEN International after years of
deep dedication, passion and vision for the network, the impact of COVID-19, the increasing
urgency of global challenges, and questions about GEN’s structure and strategy, we decided to
go on a quest - tuning into our vision and purpose together as a network, seeking new ground,
direction and inspiration for GEN’s future impact, structures, strategy and relationship with
partner organisations.
As part of the changes, a leadership circle took on the role of steering GEN International
together, hand in hand with the Board of Trustees. We also renewed our commitment to
• Embrace a network-based approach in how GEN operates
• Grow self-sustaining financial activities throughout the network to resource the transition
and support a shift to regenerative economies
• Deepen our exploration of shared governance, collaborative culture, and how we can
embody our values in our everyday working and organising.
We remain dedicated to the ecovillage model of holistic and community-led sustainable
development, focusing our energy to support new and existing ecovillages to thrive and serve as
diverse models of regeneration, build and scale skills and capacity for regenerative, community-
based living through education and collaboration, and grow the size, solidarity and voice of our
network and the larger movement for a transition to a regenerative, just, and peaceful world.
Now is the time to experiment and implement. We invite
you to join us on this mission in the coming year!
Warmly,
Anna Kovasna, Esther Hirsch & Gabriel Siqueira

Ecovillages embrace the concept of
‘luxurious simplicity’, celebrating and
recreating low impact lifestyles that expand
a sense of care, responsibility and well being.
Thousand of ecovillages around the planet
are already demonstrating how we can
transition to a fully sustainable future.
The community-based capacity for
implementation of the Sustainable
Development Goals and Climate Change
Agreement can be unleashed to establish
regional and national programs to support
ecovillage development.
An Ecovillage is an intentional or traditional
community that is consciously designed
through locally owned, participatory
processes to regenerate their social and
natural environments.
G L O B A L
E C O V I L L A G E
N E T W O R K
Catalysing communities for a regenerative world
VISION
The Global Ecovillage Network envisions
a world of empowered citizens and
communities, designing and implementing
their own pathways to a regenerative
future, and building bridges of hope and
international solidarity.
MISSION
To innovate, catalyze, educate and
advocate in global partnership with
ecovillages and all those dedicated to the
shift to a regenerative world.
photo credit: MariaLuiza
photo credit: Issa Diallo
photo credit: Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage

UN
National
Governments
Corporations
Academic
Research
REGIONS
ECOVILLAGES
GEN KNOWLEDGE
CREATION AND GROWTH
UN
National
Governments
Corporations
Academic
Research
AN ECOVILLAGE IS AN INTENTIONAL OR
TRADITIONAL COMMUNITY THAT IS CONSCIOUSLY
DESIGNED THROUGH LOCALLY OWNED,
PARTICIPATORY PROCESSES TO REGENERATE THEIR
SOCIAL AND NATURAL ENVIRONMENTS.
GEN works through five broad regional organisations
and our youth movement.

HOW WE WORK TOGETHER
During 2020, the Global Ecovillage Network deepened
our exploration of shared governance and collaborative
leadership. During the second half of the year, we shifted
from having an Executive Director to a Directors’ Circle, with
the leads of our five areas stewarding the overall strategy and
financial well-being of the organisation together, and sharing
the responsibilities previously held by one person. With clearer
domains and responsibilities for different teams and a new
participatory approach to budgeting, our aim is to build an
even more collaborative culture in our team and network. The
organisation is still in transition, and we have new pathways
and structures ahead in 2021.
GEN ORGANIGRAM

GEN’s CALL TO ACTION
Live in healthy relationship to
the world. Develop regenerative
technologies and sustainable
agriculture.
Put back more than you
take out. Sequester carbon and
regenerate ecosystems.
Build an economy that serves
life and enriches the whole. Have
the courage to share and be generous.
Trust in the capacity of each
individual to change. Empower
yourself and others.
Create local solutions for global
challenges. Know where your
water comes from.
Make friends around the world.
Reach out in solidarity.
Be the change you want to see
in the world. Find your way to a high
quality, low impact lifestyle.
Build community in ever widening
circles. Bring your authentic self into
a collaborative search for healing.
Integrate the marginalised.
Allow the richness of diversity
to unfold.
See the sacred in everything.
Celebrate cultural traditions that
regenerate life.
Provide hope and guidance to
future generations.
Empower youth to contribute
actively to sustainable development.

E CO C I T I Z E N S
E CO PR OJ E C TS
E CO S C H O O L S
E CO CO M M U N I T I E S
E CO VI L L AG E S
E CO C I T I E S
E CO N E I G H B O U R H O O D S
E CO R E G I O N S
ECOVILLAGES
Rural or urban communities
that are consciouslydesigning its
through locally owned, participatory processes,
aiming to address the Ecovillage Principles.
Ecovillages have a population ranging from at least 20 to several thousand inhabitants. GEN recognizes
ecovillages as such, if they have been in existence for at least 2 years, and are already implementing
solutions in at least one of the Areas of Regeneration with an intention to spread implementation to all
four areas (social, culture, ecology and economy) as well as whole systems design.
ENGAGEMENT

ECO:
ComesfromtheGreekOikos-relatingtofamily,
home,place,andplanet.
ECO CITIZENS:
Individuals aiming to lead ecovillage lifestyles
which address the ecovillage principles in all
four areas of regeneration (social, culture,
ecology, economy)
ECO PROJECTS:
Initiatives of various sizes that inspire and
foster implementation of ecovillage principles,
such as eco farms, permaculture projects,
learning centres, ecosystem restoration camps
and ecotourism sites.
ECO / GREEN SCHOOLS:
Schools creating environment conducive to
learning about and experiencing ecovillage
principles in some or all areas of regeneration.
ECO COMMUNITIES:
‘Small ecovillages’, with a population of less that
20 adults (starting from extended families),
consciously designed to address ecovillage
principles in some or all areas of regeneration.
ECO NEIGHBOURHOODS:
Urban settlements that are consciously designed
through locally owned, participatory processes and
aiming to address ecovillage principles in some or
all four areas of regeneration to regenerate their
social and natural environments
ECO REGIONS
Areas, especially partsof a country or the world
having definable characteristics but not always
fixed boundaries. A GEN region is referred to the 5
primary geographic areas that make up the Global
Ecovillage Network (GEN) - Europe, Africa, North
America, Latin America and Asia Oceania.
ENGAGEMENT

ENGAGEMENT
Including Gaia Education, The Club of Rome, Let’s
Do It! World, Earth Rights Institute and Ecosystem
Restoration Camps
KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS
30 42
Emerging
Networks
267
Ambassadors
Established
Networks
572
Sustainable
Solutions
500
Volunteer
Hours
56
Partnership Organizations
7100
Communities GEN
reaches out to
116
Total
Countries
GEN’S IMPACT KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS
GEN catalyses regenerative lifestyles and communities
to support the implementation of the Climate
Agreement and the SDGs.
GEN has spread inspiration and knowledge about the
ecovillage concept for the past 25 years. All ecovillages
are started from local leadership and, if at all, GEN
comes in to support and honour local participatory
design processes.
GEN distills tools, builds capacity, and celebrates the
results of the incredible work tens of thousands of
people are doing in their communities on the ground.
“Accept that you are here to serve life and beauty
on earth. You cannot possibly see the entirety of
where you’re headed.” - Charles Eisenstein.

Social Media Growth - followers
across 5 platforms (Facebook, Insta-
gram, Twitter, YouTube, LinkedIn)
• 2018: 146,422
• 2019: 219,983
• 2020: 344,761
• 2018: 12,000
• 2019: 17,968
• 2020: 26,266
• 2018: 25,475
• 2019: 36,884
• 2020: 63,170
Online Engagement and Reach
Social Media Growth
Website Visitors:
Newsletter Subscribers
20,992
People reached through
Online Summit
1492
Participants in GEN
online education
Online Engagement and Reach

STRATEGIC OBJECTIVES FOR 2020
SHOWCASE, CONNECT AND UNIFY
ECOVILLAGE NETWORKS WORLDWIDE
GEN showcases the regenerative work done in
communities around the planet to prepare for and
respond to the climate emergency. GEN connects
these efforts by creating spaces for exchange and
sharing of best nature-based solutions. GEN unifies
through collaboration throughout our networks
and distillation of tools and methods.
1.1. Showcase: GEN showcases the regenerative
work done in communities around the planet.
• Number of Communities and Ecovillages GEN
reaches out to:
• Target for 2020: 7,000 communities
• Actual in 2020: 7,100 communities
• Access to GEN’s online Ecovillage projects:
• Target for 2020: 220,000 views
• Actual in 2020: 271,269 views
• Number of Solutions in the Solution Library:
• Target for 2020: 600 solutions curated
• Actual in 2020: 572 solutions curated
• NumberofapplicationsfortheHildurJacksonAward
• Target for 2020: 45 projects
• Actual in 2020: 70 projects
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1.2. Connect: Cross-pollinate & expand
our networks.
• Ecovillage Networks:
• Target for 2020: 42 networks
• Actual in 2020: 30 emerging and 42
consolidated
• Ecovillage Twinning Programme
• Target for 2020: 10 projects
• Actual in 2020: 16 projects
ADVANCE INDIVIDUAL AND COMMUNITY
PARTICIPATION IN ECOVILLAGE LIFESTYLES
2.1. Summit, Conferences, Gatherings,
Ambassadors, Volunteers.
• Organise and facilitate Online Summit, to
advocate, disseminate & educate broader
public about effective climate actions in
communities.
• Target for 2020: 20,000 participants
• Actual in 2020: 20,922 participants
• Empower GEN Ambassadors worldwide to
be an active voice for GEN and ecovillage
lifestyles.
• Target for 2020: 280 Ambassadors active
• Actual in 2020: 267 Ambassadors active

STRATEGIC OBJECTIVES FOR 2020
2.2. Education, Research & Consultancy
• Develop and launch the GEN Online School as
a network-wide platform for ecovillage-based
online education
• Target for 2020: Launched by the end
of the year
• Actual in 2020: Launched in May
• Number of Online Courses Launched:
• Target for 2020: 15 Courses
• Actual in 2020: 13 Courses
• Number of participants in online trainings
• Target for 2020: 1,000 participants
• Actual in 2020: 1,492 participants
2.2. Education, Research & Consultancy
• Number of Education Manuals developed
• Target for 2020: 5 Manuals
• Actual in 2020: 3 Manuals
• Number of Ecovillage Design Cards 2.0
translations
• Target for 2020: 10 languages
• Actual in 2020: 10 languages
2.3. Communications & IT
• Number of individuals reached through
GEN’s social media across Facebook, Twitter,
Instagram, LinkedIn and YouTube
• Target for 2020: 50,000 followers
• Actual in 2020: 63,170 followers
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• Number of website unique visitors
• Target for 2020: 290,000 unique visitors
• Actual in 2020: 344,761 unique visitors
• Number of newsletter subscribers
• Target for 2020: 20,000 subscribers
• Actual in 2020: 26,266 subscribers
• Number of downloads of GEN Annual Report
• Target for 2020: 3,200 downloads
• Actual in 2020: 4,086 downloads
SCALE ECOVILLAGE SOLUTIONS VERTICALLY
AND HORIZONTALLY THROUGH FIVE
ECOVILLAGE PROGRAMMES
GEN scales out ecovillage solutions through its
five ecovillage programmes: Ecovillage Incubation,
Ecovillage Development, Eco Schools for Eco
Communities, EmerGENcies and Urban Eco
Communities, in order to support governments and
regional authorities in the implementation.
Because of COVID, travel and courses could not
happen as planned, preventing the implementation
of onsite programmes.

2020 RESTRUCTURING PROCESS
In April 2020 GEN appointed a Restructuring
Team to engage with everyone in GEN
and with our stakeholders, and to bring
back recommendations for GEN’s future
development, leadership, structures, financial
strategy and relationship with our sister
organisation Gaia Education.
The group designed a process through
which the whole network could explore
and synthesise the purpose, strategy, self-
sustaining financial models, structure and
culture of GEN. The aims were to:
• Increase impact and action for community-
led change, resilience and regeneration
• Foster a culture of creativity, innovation,
mutual care, and empowerment.
• Build more capacity for self-organisation,
co-creation and co-ownership of GEN
The outcomes included a new governance
structure for the network and GEN
International, new shared leadership models, a
renewal of commitment to our network-wide
purpose and vision for the future, clarity on the
roles and responsibilities of network members,
a focus on self-sustaining financial activities to
sustainably and ethically resource activities at all
levels, new ways of onboarding new members,
and systems to keep nurturing a culture of trust,
collaboration and celebration in our work and
our actions in the world.
As we close the year of 2020, we enter a period
of prototyping and active reflection and learning
as we start to implement these changes - always
with our wider impact and role in the world in
sight, and with our shared purpose at heart - to
facilitate the transition towards regenerative
cultures by innovating, showcasing, educating
and advocating for people and communities
everywhere to design and implement holistic
pathways to a regenerative future, and to
connect, support and amplify the voice of
ecovillages around the world.

OPERATIONS/FINANCES:
Healthy operations and financial management sits
at the core of GEN International and is responsible
for ensuring all legal requirements, human
resource processes and organisational systems.
The focus of this area was threefold in 2020:
• Improvement of existing and implementation
of new organisational systems to support the
team and organisation in overall coordination,
team communication and task management.
• Development of the GEN Volunteer
Programme to build a community of volunteers
for our international organisation - engagement
of 25 in all Focus Areas of GEN. In addition to
that, GEN was running an European Solidarity
Corps (ESC) programme with 5 participants
from Germany, Portugal & Italy.
• The Fundraising Area carried out an
assessment of GEN’s Fundraising activities
including an analyses of the income streams,
update of the database of foundations and
trusts to identify possible funding opportunities
and exploration of new fundraising tools.
This assessment is building the base of GEN’s
fundraising strategy 2021-2024.
Online Store:
We reviewed our current partnerships and
collaborations with organisations as well
as individuals in our network, adding new
books and learning materials for regenerative
community building. We also made more of
our products available for digital download,
improving the accessibility and affordability of
our educational materials.
GEN also launched the new edition of the
Ecovillage Design Cards in several versions,
now including links with the UN Sustainable
Development Goals and the Ecovillage Impact
Assessment. These are available in the GEN
Online Store in 10 different languages, for digital
download or as hard copies.
WHAT WE DID IN 2020

EDUCATION, CONSULTANCY
& RESEARCH
GEN Education entered 2020 with several
face-to-face courses in Regenerative
Community Design and How to Start an
Ecovillage on offer globally.
After successfully piloting our new ecovillage
Game of Regeneration for youth with 35
participants, the pandemic hit, we had to cancel
courses on 4 continents, and quickly pivoted to
offer online trainings instead.
In terms of learning materials, we completed
the new edition of the Ecovillage Design Cards,
including versions linking directly to the United
Nations Sustainable Development Goals and
the new Ecovillage Impact Assessment. We also
created online modes of working with the cards
to support reflection, learning and community
development.
SPOTLIGHT: Launch of Fully Featured Online
Learning Platform
In March 2020 we launched the GEN Academy,
with the goals of sharing knowledge, inspiration,
and expertise within our network with a wider
audience, provide a platform for ecovillage
educators, and a space to learn directly from and
with the diverse and living examples of community-
led regeneration that make up GEN.
Hosted by GEN International, this online platform
aims to gather and showcase cutting edge
ecovillage-based education, virtual and face-
to-face, within the GEN Networks in one place.
Through core GEN offers and partnerships with
facilitators and experts from our network, we strive
to increase:
• Visibility - for ecovillages, related projects,
GEN Regions & GEN
• Reach & Accessibility - less travel & expenses,
more flexibility
• Diversity & Representation - more voices,
faces & languages
• Income generation for trainers, ecovillages
and GEN nodes.
With 2020 not allowing for in-person events, the
platform hosted 15 online learning opportunities,
including short webinars and a 6-month learning
journey, hosted facilitators from all GEN Regions,
and welcomed almost 1,500 participants from all
regions. We also started conversations with GEN
Regions for use of the platform.
WHAT WE DID IN 2020

EDUCATION, CONSULTANCY
& RESEARCH
Broadening the scope of our activities, we also
engaged actively with urban ecovillages and
schools applying an ecovillage approach, resulting
in an Urban Ecovillages manual, online course and
published book chapter.
GEN includes creative educators bringing
ecovillage principles and methodologies to formal
and informal learning environments. The tools
and insights can be applied by formal educators in
traditional classrooms, informal youth facilitators
in diverse learning environments, as well as
community-based initiatives.
Highlighting the learnings from ReSCOPE and
GEN’s Greening Schools Programme, we hosted 2
online sessions, welcoming over 200 participants
and produced a comprehensive Manual which
showcased the approaches and applications.
We began to facilitate the emergence of a
Community of Practice for ecovillage education
focused on schools, youth and children. This
network of 15 partners will continue to explore
the interconnections between schools and
communities, and how ecovillage principles can be
applied in the most diverse contexts.
Consultancy saw an increase in interest, with new
entry level calls proving popular. Focus was mainly
on supporting new ecovillage initiatives, and on
larger-scale Ecovillage Development Programmes,
where the team together with GEN Africa created
several project partnerships and proposals.
Throughout the year, the team also worked on
creating closer collaboration and joint strategy
with Gaia Education, our sister organisation.
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The aim was to increase the sharing of data and
experiences, to identify gaps in knowledge and
opportunities for collaboration, and to map and
systematize research on ecovillages and related
topics. We facilitated interaction and constructive
dialogue where researchers presented their work,
followed by a group discussion with approximately
50 people each.
WHAT WE DID IN 2020

NETWORKING & OUTREACH
Ambassadors
* 2 global webinars, 5 regional ambassadors
webinars
* self-organised Community of Practice
* progress of automating the ambassador
enrolment process;
Friends of GEN - launched a new campaign called
Building the New Normal which showcases how
ecovillage have been building sustainable and
connected ways of living that can be our Normal,
far from normalizing the current tragedy under a
supposed “new” normal.
Hildur Jackson Award -Received record of 70
applications from 37 countries across all 5 regions.
Celebrated the finalist TI Ecovillage from India, and
top runners up, Instituto Çarakura, Brazil and Eco
Clean, Ghana.
Twinning Project - 9 twins matched carrying out
practical projects on the ground, 6 case studies
collected from previous twins in the network,
Twinning Manual created
River of Life - 4 women. 2 funded by individual
donations from Europe and 2 by European
Foundation.
Regions - We held and facilitated 3 successful
GAs, and launched the shift toward the Network
Steward Circle at the end of the year. All Regions
held meaningful online gatherings/conferences
this year, and we improved the Regional Liaison
collaborative process.
Projects Database - This showcases self-identified
community projects around the world, through a
profile featuring their history, goals, and current
status (including if they are open to new members
or volunteers).
It helps to enable interested people to connect
with the projects, and showcase the network as
a unified movement. In 2020, we cleaned up the
back-end, improving the ecovillage form and the
map to include the networks and the ecovillages
connected to them; Liaised with Regions to align
with their databases.
WHAT WE DID IN 2020

COMMUNICATIONS
Communications acts as the connective thread of
GEN to the outside world to promote GEN’s values
and ideals to ecovillage friends and allies around
the world. Content created from the heart of the
ecovillage movement, strong imagery, compelling
narratives and solid data that brings evidence of
our impact. Ultimately, it is cultivating and curating
best practices, and sharing highlights to connect
communities for a more sustainable world.
Strategic integration of communication channels
- adopted a more integrated approach to our
website and social media. We also focused more
on storytelling. This resulted in impressive growth
across our conversion funnel, starting with our
social media channels - 78% growth in comparison
with 2019-, that led to a 57% growth of website
qualified accesses this year, finally generating a
46% increase in newsletter subscribers in 2020.
Monthly Newsletter - experimented with a new
format, with structured sections and an editorial
intro. Each month we highlight a GEN Region,
an Ambassador, an Ecovillage, ours and partners
upcoming events and job openings.
Communities on Edge video series - showcasing
inspiring, practical experiences and successes
from ecovillages, communities, and eco-projects
from all over the world. This is the first stepo into
exploring more our youtube channel and videos.
Design - developed manuals,Ecovillage Design
Cards, and decentralized demand by adopting a
shared collaborative tool for design online, Canva.
Supported and promoted events - for GEN
and partners including the Collective Trauma
Summit, Fantastic Fungi documentary,
Ecosystem Restoration Camps, Permaculture
Magazine, Ecovillage Podcast.
WHAT WE DID IN 2020

INFORMATION AND TECHNOLOGY
GEN IT provide digital systems and platforms to
the GEN Regions, ecovillages and people of the
network. It serves to create and manage clear
information about GEN and strives to nurture
relationships and engage eco-citizens throughout
our global network.
In 2020, we consolidated a solid IT team. This not
onlyled toamorereliableandfasterwebsiteandIT
environment, but allowed GEN to improve support
to our digital platforms such as Monday.com, Slack
and Google Business Tools.
We developed and launched our Online Learning
Platform, allowing the GEN Education team
and our Regions, Ecovillages and Partners to
offer trainings and workshops in an integrated
interactive environment.
We also shared GEN’s Wordpress Theme with our
networks, supporting the development of their
websites. Beyond GEN International main website
and our Learn Platform, GEN Europe, NextGEN.
GENOA, GEN Australia, RIE and Aterra Bizimodu
ecovillage already adopted our WP theme. As of
december 2020, GEN Africa and CASA Latina were
on planning stage as well.
WHAT WE DID IN 2020

OUR WORK AROUND THE WORLD
GEN International Project Collaborators in 2020
ESC
LEADER
School
Ecovillage Transition in Action Research
GAMER
BLAST
Twinning
Hildur Jackson Award Finalist
Green Economy
COLLABORATIONS IN 2020

ONLINE SUMMIT 2020
Our second Online Summit ‘Communities
for Future - Our Response to the Climate
Emergency’ welcomed 21.000 participants
in February 2020.
A consortium of 30 leading edge thinkers,
activists, and grassroots leaders shared
insights for the transformation of
systems towards a community-led and
regenerative future.
Over 171 hubs organised events in
communities, ecovillages, education centers,
farms, institutions and private homes, in 51
countries. The video series ‘Climate Fact and
Climate Action Challenge’ presented various
climate facts and inspired the participants to
take concrete actions that make an positive
change and impact in the world.
FUNDED PROJECTS 2020
‘Thank you for an incredible summit. I watched all the
videos. The depth of conversation around climate change
was unlike anything I’ve experienced elsewhere.’

VOLUNTEERS
In 2020 GEN International hosted 5 long-term
European Solidarity Corps (ESC) participants at
the office in Findhorn, Scotland. The Erasmus+
programme, funded by the European Commission,
enables GEN to support young people who share
our vision of a world of empowered citizens and
communities to develop skills and experience
in projects, work in an international team, and
gain communication and cooperation tools -
empowering them as lifelong leaders. Based in
the Findhorn Foundation & Community, they also
witness and experience the life of sustainability,
and social cooperation that ecovillages model.
ESC
GEN also launched an expanded programme for
the many people interested in volunteering in our
online and remote work. From market strategists
to designers, translators to researchers, we receive
invaluable support in our mission. This program is
designed to grow and strengthen that community of
volunteer, and supports GEN in fulfilling our purpose
to build more capacity for the whole network. It
also gives individuals the opportunity to gain more
insights and involvement within GEN and the
architecture of GEN as an organisation.

BLAST
Launched in autumn 2019, BLAST is an
ECOLISE-led partnership to build capacity for
Blended Adult Learning for the Social-ecological
Transition. Here, the GEN Education Team works
with others to strengthen cross-movement
capacity to offer blended transformative
learning, to create better pathways between
education in different movements, and to
strengthen the European Community of Practice
for transformative education.
During 2020, the project team was busy
developing a Community of Practice guide, a set
of tools and methods for blended transformative
learning, and a framework for competencies
needed. Because of COVID, no trainings,
meetings or events could be held, but online
collaboration was lively, and also included an in-
depth look at Equity, Diversity and Inclusion in
all our work and offers.
GAMER
Running since May 2018, Eco GAMER is a GEN
Education-led youth project working with
GEN Europe, Damanhur Education, SEKEM
Development Foundation and the University of
Lisbon. The aim is to increase capacity to meeasure
the impact of ecovillages, and gamify the process
of ecovillage and social enterprise design in a form
that is fun and dynamic.
Early in 2020 the partnership hosted a pilot
training for facilitators of the new the game of
ReGENeration - a live action game exploring
ecovillages, personal development, and the
journey of project design through hands on
activities, theatre, storytelling and more - all
folded into an immersive myth and character
development. The game now exists as a set of
resources for facilitators to play the live game, as
well as instructions and tools for a shorter table-
top version.

ECOVILLAGE TRANSITION
IN ACTION
This GEN Education partnership with GEN
Germany, ECOLISE and Hurdal/Kilden
focusses on scaling ecovillages through better
collaboration between community led initiatives
(CLIs) and local governments. We started the
year with a a Peer 2 Peer Training in Ecovillage
Transition Methodologies. Collaboration then
moved online, with several Online Project
Meetings to consolidate learnings and strategise
next steps.
As a contribution to the launch of the ECOLISE
flagship programme, Communities for Future and
the European Day for Sustainable Communities
2020 the webinar: “Strengthening collaboration
between community-led initiatives and
local authorities for regional sustainability”
invited guests to highlight innovations in local
and regional cooperation between CLIs and
municipalities. Attended by more than 70 people
from diverse stakeholder groups, it fed into
the official launch of Communities for Future,
attended by several Members of the European
Parliament
The team also contributed to the Online
European Ecovillage Gathering: What If?
Ecovillage Solutions for Extraordinary Times,
with a workshop on “Scaling-Up Regeneration:
Ingredients for Successful Community-
Municipality Collaborations” reflecting together
on the ingredients that enable successful
community-municipality collaborations.
LEADER
Based in Moray, North East Scotland, the Moray
Ecovillage Development Project was the Moray
LEADER-Funded transnational learning exchange,
and community development project between
3 Showcase Scottish communities and two
international ecovillages Kilden (Hurdal, Norway)
& Schloss Tonndorf (Germany). GEN (grant
holder) was joined by local partners, tsiMORAY, in
delivering the project.
Running from March 2019 - December 2020, the
overall project aim was to incubate ecovillage
development in at least 3 Moray communities
towards meeting Moray LEADER Local
Development Strategy (LDS) objectives around:
1. Social entrepreneurship, 2. Local food supply
chains, 3. Local tourism, 4. Energy efficiency and
renewable energy.
Despite COVID-19, the project was a success
and created multiple, long-term benefits for the
communities that were trained and mentored.

GREEN ECONOMY
In partnership with ReScope, the project
provided training and guidance to support
the set up of 8 social enterprise groups in
communities in Zambia. Activities and capacity
building focused on village banking, production
of value-added crops such as essential oils,
rocket stoves, and natural building. Responding
to the COVID19 pandemic, training and
ongoing support continued online, including
3 webinars highlighting project partners to a
wider audience.
RIVER OF LIFE
The program “The River of Life” is an ongoing
global program in GEN with the motto “Women
supporting women”: Women enable other women
to work directly in their communities, strengthen
their social fabric and thereby the ecosystem as
well as the local economy. River of Life provides
financial support to exceptionally strong women
in Africa, Asia and Latin America over a certain
period of time, to help shift their communities in a
regenerative direction.
These women use the funds as a livelihood for
their community work: they start community
gardens, develop ecovillage programs, get
involved in greening schools and start community-
based peace and nature conservation initiatives.
They work at the local level, but also at the
regional and national levels, to network work and
link communities, projects and solutions. In 2020,
GEN supported 4 women through individual
donations and grant funding.

HILDUR JACKSON AWARD
The Hildur Jackson Award is a special accolade
in GEN, that recognises initiatives in the network
that bring the most impactful inspiration about
ecovillages and ecovillage projects to a broad
audience. In 2020, GEN welcomed a record
number of 70 applicants from 29 countries, adding
many new projects to our global map. From the 15
shortlisted initiatives, we celebrated incredible
geographic and thematic diversity. The award was
presented to Trans Indus (TI) Ecovillage in India
for their inspiring and dedicated restoration work
of the land they are custodians of. By working to
restore the Earth, they also healed and restored
human relationships.
TWINNING
Ecovillage Twinning has been happening in
GEN for many years, with mutual benefits and
long lasting friendships. The 2020 Twinning
Project is the first time that there has been
systematization of this process, with learnings
harvested from previous twins and the
creation of opportunities to connect those
ecovillages, eco-communities, eco-projects
and ecovillage networks from across various
regions to build twinning relationships.
Communities that have been part of this
process have been deeply inspired and
motivated by their twin, especially in these
times of great uncertainty.
The GEN Twinning Team harvested and
documented five previous twinning examples
from the network, received 43 applications
from across the 5 regions of GEN and 25
countries, connected 13 partners/twins and
had 9 specific project proposals submitted.
The 9 projects happened on the ground
in the communities, with communications
and collaboration between the partners
happening virtually due to the COVID-19
travel restrictions. A challenge at first
that turned into excellent examples of
exchange through online methods, that were
sustainable, had low ecological footprints and
were geographically diverse.

GEN Ambassadors help spread the hope,
inspiration and concrete solutions developed in
ecovillages around the world, and invite others to
become involved in the Global Ecovillage Network.
As Ambassadors communicate GEN’s work in local
languages and connect it with diverse cultural
contexts and grassroots movements, they are an
integral part of connecting GEN with the ecovillage
movement and network all over the world.
WHAT A GEN AMBASSADOR IS AND DOES
A GEN Ambassador is an individual who knows
the Global Ecovillage Network well and is able
to represent GEN on local, national and/or
international levels, regardless of whether or not
she or he lives in an ecovillage community. A GEN
Ambassador stays updated about GEN by reading
GEN Newsletters and websites and attending
GEN events. Learn more about the programme
and apply here: ecovillage.org/ambassadors
The focus for the Ambassadors programme this
year was to create closer connections and ways of
working together throughout the pandemic. GEN
held 2 global Ambassadors webinars. This was a
GEN AMBASSADORS
place for Ambassadors to meet their fellows
from around the world, to share about their
communities and ways of connecting, coming
together and supporting each other when
times are tough and we can’t meet in person.
GEN also worked with the Regional Liaisons in
also holding 5 regional Ambassador Meetings
(one for each region). This was to encourage
Ambassadors to create closer ties to their
regional ‘offices’, and fellow local Ambassadors
and to catalyze any support initiatives or
projects in their nations and regions. Each
regional will now hold their own, regular,
Ambassador meetings in the years to come.
Two other projects that were initiated this year,
is the new ambassador application process
which was given an IT re-haul and is due to
come online in the beginning of 2021. As well
as the new The Art of Speaking and Presenting
course aimed at Ambassadors, available on
the new learn.ecovillage platform, also coming
online the beginning of 2021. We are excited for
all the many future offerings for and from our
GEN Ambassadors!

GEN FINANCIAL FOUNDATIONS
Summaryofcurrentincomestreamsandchangeovertime
2017
Other Donations
Gaia Trust
Earned Income
Projects
0.5%
49.5%
4.0%
46.1%
2018
Other Donations
Gaia Trust
Earned Income
Projects
0.8%
37.3%
11.4%
50.4%
2019
Other Donations
Gaia Trust
Earned Income
Projects
1.1%
39.2%
9.1%
50.6%
2020
Other Donations
Gaia Trust
Earned Income
Projects
1.6%
47.7%
12.1%
38.6%
In concert with the restructuring of the Network and GEN
International, the organisation underwent a reorientation of
vision and strategy. Its purpose was to explore ways that GEN
could build self-sustaining models. We expect this process to
streamline our financial reporting to clearly align with our targets.
Atthedateofprintingthisreport,ourAuditedFinancialStatements
forthe2020fiscalyearendwerenotyetcomplete.Theywillbefiled
bytheSeptember30thdeadlinewiththeScottishCharityRegulator
andavailabletothepublicatthatpoint.
The 2020 overall revenue stream declined in comparison
to 2019 and 2018 due to a drop in funded project revenue,
while the 2020 earned income recorded a slight increase as
compared to 2019. Our three pillars of funding remain:
1. Funded Projects
2. Social Entrepreneurship
Consultancy and Education
Online Summit
Merchandise
3. Donations and grants
Private Foundations
Friends of GEN

INCOME
Funded Projects
GEN has experienced a drop of income in funded projects
since 2019. More than ever we are grateful to our
donors’ support that allows us to amplify the impact of
our work to fulfill our targets. Further development of
strong relationships with partners encourages synergies
and alignments that add weight to our collective vision
of greater sustainability. We have had the privilege of
working with the Scottish Government, the German
Foreign Ministry, the British Council and the European
Commission, amongst others.
Funded Projects account for 38.4% of total revenue in
2020 in contrast to 22% in 2015.
Social Entrepreneurship
Results for second Online Summit again exceeded
expectations. The market for this still seems to be strong
and GEN will continue to host an Online Summit on an
annual basis.
The Education & Consultancy focus area faced a quick
and significant adaption from face-to-face learning tools
to online education. The launch of the Online Learning
Platform in early 2020 supported this shift. In 2020 there
was £52,713 earned in Education & Consultancy.
Our Online Market inventory consists of material that
GEN uses in our Education programmes. Its results
are therefore linked to the Education & Consultancy
revenue. 2020 shows the shift to online education has a
positive impact on this area.
In total, Earned Revenue has increased from 1.41%
of total revenue in 2015 to account for 12% of total
revenue in 2020.

EXPENDITURE
Donations
Friends of GEN, our monthly donors program,
started in 2017 and has grown 195% from 2017 to
2020. Friends of GEN energize us with enthusiasm
and support and show us how many small gifts can
make a huge difference. In 2020 we earned £8,053
thanks to the generous donations of our 81 Friends
of GEN. We are looking to expand this program in
2021 with a strong social media presence and donor
relations.
GEN continues to be enormously grateful for
the support of Gaia Trust in Denmark. While
the percentage of total funding from Gaia Trust
decreased from 48% in 2015 to 47% in 2020, they
remain a critical part of GEN’s income streams and
have allowed us to thrive in ways that we could not
have done otherwise. 30% of this funding passes
through GEN to support the work of GEN Regions
and NextGEN.-
GEN’s spending is aligned with our Targets, and it is
then allocated into working groups or Focus Areas.
Outreach and Networking
Spending in this area slightly decreased compared
with prior years and ensures strong regional
cooperation and synergies. In 2020, Advocacy and
Networking mainly contributed to these strategic
goals: (1) cultivate relationships of cooperation and
mutual support throughout GEN, (2) to showcase,
connect and unify ecovillage networks worldwide, (3)
nurture strategic partnerships & alliances to spread
ecovillage approaches & support implementation of
Climate Agreement & SDGs

EXPENDITURE
Focus Areas to ensure funded projects are well
aligned to our targets. In 2020, we increased our
fundraising efforts and carried out an assessment
of GEN’s Fundraising activities. All Focus Areas and
Fundraising contributed to achieve our strategic goal
for 2020 to increase the economic capacity of GEN
through individual donations and funded projects.
Program and Administration staff
ThisfocusareacombinesstaffthatworkonbothProjects
andgeneraladministration,servingassupportofall
activitiesoftheorganization.Thedetailsofthisbreakdown
ofisreportedinourTrusteereportfiledwithOSCR.
Funded Project spending
The significant increase compared to 2019 in 2020
spending was due to timing differences. Several
projects were only funded at the end of 2019 and GEN
delayed spending until 2020.

OUR CIRCLES
GEN’s General Assembly and Board of Trustees
are made up of representatives appointed
through each of the 5 GEN Regions. Together,
the GEN Board and GA oversee GEN’s strategic
direction and finances - and their conversations,
at the heart of the GEN network and
organisation, are characterised by their global
and intercultural nature.
GEN’s dedicated Staff team, under the
leadership of a Director’s Circle, works hand
in hand with regional staff to implement GEN’s
objectives and targets. The GEN Elders and GEN
Advisory Board share their wisdom and advice at
crucial points.
GENOA
Andrew Olivier
Australia
GENNA
Keala Young
US
GENOA
Hiroko Katayama
Japan
NextGEN
Laura Kästele
Germany
GENNA
Cynthia Tina
GEN Vice President, US
GEN Europe
Camilla Nielsen
Denmark
GEN Europe
Robert Hall
Sweden
CASA Latina
Renata Freitas
Brazil
CASA Latina
Marcela Lozano
Colombia
GEN Africa
RachelChininga-Francis
South Africa
GEN Africa
Niveen Adel
Egypt
GEN
Jennifer Trujillo Obando
President, Colombia.
GEN
Laurie Michaels
U.K. Representative
The Board is composed of 2 Charity Trustees
representing each of the Regional Networks of GEN
and NextGEN, plus a President and a representative
from the UK.
GEN BOARD

Albert Bates, USA
Alfonso Flaquer, Spain
Alberto Coyote, Mexico
Beatriz Arjuna, Colombia
Boniface Gomez, Bangladesh
Daniel Greenberg, USA
Declan Kennedy, Germany
Giovanni Ciarlo, USA
Helena N. Hodge, Australia
Jane Rasbash, Scotland
John Croft, Australia
John Talbot, Australia
Joss Brookes, India
Linda Joseph, USA
Liora Adler, Mexico
Lucilla Borio, Italy
Marian Zeitlin, Senegal
MARTI, India
Max Lindegger, Australia
Ousmane Pame, Senegal
Rob Wheeler, USA
Robert Gilman, USA
Roger Doudna, Scotland
COUNCIL OF ELDERS
Cynthia Tina
Keala Young
Linda Joseph
Nebesna Fortin
Brandy Gallagher
Adam McKenty
Jamaica Stevens
Audree Morin
Calvin Motte
Acmed De Los Santos
Alberto Ruz
Beatriz Arjona
Leticia Rigatti
Margarita O. Zethelius
Yuluka BoaVida
Pamela Martinez
Henny Freitas
Odin Ruz
Rachel Chininga-Francis
Niveen Adel
Mugove Walter Nyika
Linda Kabaira
Ousmane Aly Pame
Sonita Mbah
Paul Yeboah
Aaron Ranayeke
Samuel Kaboka
Hiroko Katayama
Udesh Fernando
Thalea Tane
Hai Chao
Sharmila Seyyid
Dhanushka Jayanetti
Zareen Myles
Seyoung Park
Andrew Olivier
Robert Hall
Camilla Nielsen-Englyst
Genny Carraro
Laura Kästele
Alfonso Carreras
Macaco Tamerice
Charlie Lenglez
Brigitta Spälti
Francesca Whitlock
Sonita Mbah
Seyoung Park
Audree Morin
Laura Kästele
“Everything is inter-related.
We have to use the system
as we have it, but transform
the system as we want it.”
-Satish Kumar
GENERAL ASSEMBLY
Ross Jackson, Sabine Lichtenfels, Visolela Namises, Macaco Tamerice, Robin Alfred
ADVISORY BOARD

THE 2020 GEN INTERNATIONAL TEAM
Anna Kovasna
Education &
Consultancy Director
Trudy Juriansz
Networking &
Outreach Director
Gabriel Siqueira
Communications &
IT Director
Esther Hirsch
Operations Director
Benjamin Bernabela
Executive Assistant
Taisa Mattos
Education &
Consultancy Coordinator
Tessa Brock
Ambassador
Coordinator & LEADER
Project Coordinator
Camila Olarte
Design Coordinator
Abbie Caldas
Communications &
Education Assistant
Charles Katere
Projects Accountant
Mark Anderson
Senior Web
Developer
Caroline Armstrong
Bookkeeper
Rodrigo Braga
Web Developer
Petre Dobrescu
Web Developer
Jake Jay-Lewin
IT Support
Carolin Waldmann
Office Coordinator &
Education Assistant
Rob Wheeler
UN Liaison
Lara Muhsik
European Solidarity
Corps Interns
PREVIOUS GEN TEAM MEMBERS
Kosha Joubert
[until June]
Executive Director
Kathleen O’Day
[until September]
Finance Director
Carolin Waldmann, Lucia Roque, and Katrin
Hasselwander - European Solidarity Corps Interns
Paulo Bessa
[until November]
Admin Manager
Jingwen Yao
[until November]
Web Designer
Ania Konarska
Fundraiser & LEADER
Project Manager
Stefano Nebiolo
European Solidarity
Corps Interns

GEN SHARED PURPOSE GEN’S KEY AREAS OF ACTIVITY
Create new and support existing (traditional, intentional,
urban, rural) ecovillages to thrive, be self-sustaining, and
serve as experimental learning centres and diverse models
of land- and community- based social, ecological,
economic and cultural regeneration
Build skills and capacity for regenerative, community-
based living through providing learning opportunities
for a diversity of audiences, and bringing ecovillage-
based training and principles into schools, universities,
organisations and local communities.
Weave connections, foster relationships,
collaboration, and solidarity in the ecovillage
network, showcase the regenerative work
done in communities, and join efforts with
others in this larger movement for a
transition to a regenerative, just, and
peaceful world.
Ecovillage Development & Incubation -
training, mentoring, consultancy,
resources, fundraising support
Ecovillage Education:
online and face to face training and summits,
course platforms, CoP, links with universities and schools
Capacity Building for financial sustainability:
training and support related to self-sustaining models
and fundraising for GEN networks and ecovillages.
Network Engagement:
communities of practice, working groups, shared services,
membership, voluntary action, community support
Outreach:
expand external communications, share stories,
mainstream concepts, translate into more languages,
develop key partnerships
Advocacy: link with governing bodies at the local,
national, regional, and international level
1) ECOVILLAGE LIVING:
2) EDUCATION & CAPACITY BUILDING:
3) MOVEMENT BUILDING:

GEN INTERNATIONAL 2021 PRIORITIES
Business development and
self-sustaining business
models, decreasing
dependency on Gaia Trust
Increased and improved
cooperation within team
and network
Developing stronger public
identity, brand, communications,
and marketing
strategy
Online Learning Platform business & content
development
Developing a Social Enterprise approach to our IT
platforms and infrastructure
Launch of GEN Consultancy in cooperative form
Implementing new internal structures for collaboration
and goverance
Implementation of Network Care Coordinator role and
support for NSC and GEN Communities of Practice
Ongoing active co-development of partnerships and
collaborations within all activities, business models, and
fundraising activities
Growing the diversity and reach of GEN’s voice and face
Developing a clear and focused branding and
communications strategy to support the development
of self-sustaining business models, fundraising,
reach and impact
Leveraging Online Summit and COP26 to maximise our
visibility, reach, accessibility and impact

CELEBRATING 25 YEARS OF GEN
1995 2012
2012 2016 2020
2005 2013 2019
GEN’s Inception
GEN Europe,
ENA and GENOA
launched
CASA launched
GEN Africa
launched
GEN Education
& Consultancy
launched 25 years of GEN
NextGEN created
Gaia Education
launched
GEN registered as a
Scottish charity
7 Agreements
with governments
signed
G L O B A L
E C O V I L L A G E
N E T W O R K
Hildur and Ross Jackson bought Fjordvang, the former
“World University”, a farm in Denmark, to establish an
“ecovillage.” As a first step, Gaia Trust commissioned
a survey to identify the best global examples of
ecovillages and convened twenty people from some
of the best communities and a few broad thinkers to
discuss how best to use the funds. The consensus was
to support the people who were actually living the new
paradigm— ecovillagers.
It’s important to note that many GEN members were
founded before the term “ecovillage” was established.
Solheimer (Iceland) has roots going back to 1930. In
the 1960s, Findhorn (Scotland), The Farm (Tennessee,
USA), Sarvodaya (Sri Lanka), the NAAM movement
(Burkino Faso), and Auroville (India) emerged.
1991 1993
1995
Gaia Trust brought together a number of
established and embryonic Danish ecovillages as
the Danish Ecovillage Network — the first national
network - and called the second global strategy
meeting.
A conference at Findhorn: “Ecovillages and
Sustainable Communities for the 21 Century”
was attended by over 400 people from forty
countries, with the proceedings published by the
Findhorn Press.
Immediatelyfollowing,20peoplefromdifferent
ecovillagesmetandformallyestablishedtheGlobal
EcovillageNetwork,consistingofthreeregional

networks,withcentersatecovillagesTheFarm(USA),
Lebensgarten(Germany)andCrystalWaters(Australia),
and an international coordinating office at Gaia
Trust, Denmark.
Gaia Trust committed to covering the expenses of the
network for 3-5 years to focus on forming networks
to link existing projects. A second longer-term goal
was set to create global services, like an education
network, that would cut across regions, as soon as
budgets and manpower permitted.
GEN participated in the United Nations Habitat
II conference in Istanbul. A straw bale wall was
installed to display photos from ecovillages
around the world. Hildur distributed 5000
copies of The Earth is Our Habitat and the team
hosted more than 40 workshops on all issues of
ecovillages and global politics.
A period of building networks under the leadership
of the three regional secretaries, namely Declan
Kennedy, Albert Bates, and Max Lindegger,
who constituted the initial GEN board, with
coordination by Hamish Stewart, the International
Secretary, based at Fjordvang.
1996
1997-1999
This resulted in the establishment and growth of
three autonomous networks covering the globe: The
Ecovillage Network of the Americas (ENA), GEN-
Europe, which also covered Africa for the time being,
and GEN Asia/Oceania (GENOA). The GEN board met
in many parts of the world during this time.
GaiaTrustwarnedthatitsfinancialsupporttoGEN
wouldgraduallydecreaseandGENwouldhavetofind
newfunding.ItwasalwaysGaiaTrust’spolicytouseits
capitaloverarelativelyshortperiodwhileitsfounders
werestillactive,andalsotoensurethatGENdoesnot
becomedependent.
Hildur was inspired to create a comprehensive
educational programme integrating ecovillage
principles and practices and taught at ecovillages
based on the “Living and Learning” concept as a new
paradigm in education: you can live the new lifestyle,
while you are learning how to establish and design it.
TogetherwithKarenSvensson,Hildurpublishedthebook
“EcovillageLiving:RestoringtheEarthandHerPeople.”
As forewarned, Gaia Trust cut back on its funding and
GEN became a volunteer organization.
2001
2002
2004

The beginnings of GEN international as an
independent organisation, based in Findhorn
Ecovillage, Scotland
The start of the EmerGENcies Programme, where
GEN acts to support communities facing natural
or human-made disasters. The initiative has
grown since then and involves ecovillagers from
all around the planet.
The decision to introduce Sociocracy in our decision
making processes
Llamado de la Montaña, in Colombia, the first
Iberoamerican gathering where an independent
South American network CASA came into life,
evolving out of ENA as a new and active region.
Gaia Education was formally launched at the GEN+10
Conference, working closely with GEN yet as a
separate entity. The first “product” was a four week
course called Ecovillage Design Education (EDE),
which continues to be taught all over the world.
Emergence of NextGEN
Kosha Joubert, one of the 30 educators involved
in the Gaia Education curriculum, was elected
as president of GEN Europe. She successfully
introduced the EDE to her ecovillage, Sieben
Linden in Germany, securing funding for many
participants from Africa to attend, and to start
forming GEN Africa.
2010:
Emergence of GEN Africa as an independent region,
with financial help from the German foreign ministry,
established in SEKEM, Egypt.
Emergence of NextGEN as an independent region
with a role and a voice in our Councils.
2010
2011
2005
2008
2012

The decision to support the arising of GEN
International as an independent organisation. GEN
emerges as a Scottish Charity and network with 5
regions and NextGEN.
The GEN Europe Office moved from Germany to
Arterra in Spain, invigorating the Iberian network and
bringing a new wave of collaborations.
GEN continues to be part of the COP Process of the
UN and signs MOUs with national governments for
the development of Ecovillage Programmes.
GEN begins to study the opportunities of merging
with GAIA Education. First GEN Online Summit
Kosha Joubert resigns as GEN CEO, after 12 years
of involvement, moving onto the Pocket Project and
remaining a supporter of the network and movement.
The new GEN structure emerges.
2016-2018
2019
2020
2021
2013
2014

Play with our Ecovillage Design
Cards (now in 10 languages)
- with your family, friends,
neighbourhood, colleagues; in
various configurations
Write an article about your
experience learning about an
ecovillage or how you can apply
ecovillage principles in your life.
Publish it on GEN’s news section
or in your local media.
Invite your local school to bring
ecovillage principles into their
learning, inspired by our
Greening Schools Programme
Read about, or if you’re an
academic participate in,
GEN Research
Present the network to a friend
Connect GEN to
another relevant organisation
Implement an
ecovillage solution in your own life
Connect with your neighbours
Invest in your power to grow your
own food
Explore how to build with natural
materials
Support Women in the River of
Life Programme
Participate in a GEN Consultancy#
call to receive input and feedback on
your project idea from experienced
ecovillagers
Complete the Ecovillage Impact
Assessment Tool (not only for ecovi-
llages, but for communities, families,
organisations etc.)
Nominate a project or apply for
Hildur Jackson Award
Become a GEN Ambassador
Explore our Resources and
Solutions Library
Read the book
Ecovillage: 1001 Ways to
Heal the Planet
Take a course - online
or at an ecovillage
Participate in the
Online Summit
Volunteer for
GEN International
Visit an ecovillage
Join an event -
including gatherings, COP
Become a Friend of GEN
Connect with a GEN Region
Participate in
a regional or national gathering
CELEBRATING 25 YEARS
25 WAYS
TO ENGAGE WITH GEN
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GEN Africa prioritises organisational development and
implementation of the Pan-African Ecovillage Development
PRogramme (PAESP) in all member countries. With over 23
member countries, our unique role is facilitating ecovillages as
living models across the continent.
We envision the re-emergence of a sustainable and abundant
Africa growing out of an alliance of self-empowered and resilient
communities. As a solution-based alliance, GEN Africa makes
visible examples of best practices, empowers existing ecovillages,
supports emergence of new ecovillages, and develops educational
tools to inspire societal transition to resilience.
GEN AFRICA
GEN
REGIONS
GEN
AFRICA

“Meeting you has given my visions a more concrete and realistic frame. It feels good to know that what we are doing makes sense in a bigger picture.
I am confident to see GEN Africa grow, and the local initiatives that we are in touch with can grow
through the multiplying force of the network.”
- Martina De Rosi, attendee GEN Africa workshop in Italy.
As a solution based alliance, GEN-Africa makes visible examples of best
practices, empower existing ecovillages, support emergence of new ecovillages
and develop educational tools to inspire societal transition to resilience.
2020 HIGHLIGHTS
Regional Coordinator (Kwame Ansah Baffour) and Executive Secretary (Sonita Mbah)
published two African ecovillage articles in the Equilibri Journal in Milan, Italy.
Due process was followed to award four (4) GEN Africa members projects with GBP 2,000.00.
• Eco Clean Ghana (Winner) was awarded with GBP 800.00
• Ghana Permaculture Institute (1st Runner Up) was awarded with GBP 500.00
• ReScope Zambia (2nd Runner Up) was awarded with GBP 350.00
• Centre Des Hommes Togo (2nd Runner Up) was awarded with GBP 350.00
GEN Africa is officially registered on the Goods Market Platform in Asia and members are being
connected to the platform to market their products.
Due process was followed to select ten (10) Core team members with diverse expertise and experience
to lead the implementation of the Pan African Ecovillage Development Programme.

PROJECTS
GATHERINGS
Pan African Ecovillage Development Programme
Strengthening GEN Africa Members through GEN Africa Awards Project
• Building the capacity of rural farmers in livelihood development,
through permaculture system in moringa cultivation in Ghana
• Livelihood development and empowerment through waste recycling
into resources in Ghana
• Training GEN Zambia Core Group and Five Villages in
• Soil Fertility in Zambia
• Building learning and living center for human development
1 Online GEN Africa Members Vision Call Meeting
First GEN Africa Ambassador’s Meeting was held
1 day Online Leadership Archetype Training
“Whether you’re a farmer, builder or engineer, the
opportunities are equal: Just add a little innovation”.
Strive Masiyiwa, Executive Chairman & Founder of the Econet Group

CONTACT INFO
ecovillage.org/region/GEN-Africa
info.genafrica@ecovillage.org
Facebook.com/GENAfricanetwork
Instagram.com/GENAfrica
Photo Credits: Ghana Permaculture Institute
NATIONAL NETWORKS
EMERGING NETWORKS
DR Congo,
Ghana,
Kenya,
Mauritania,
NextGEN Africa,
Rwanda,
Sahel (REDES),
Senegal,
South Africa
Cameroon,
Nigeria,
Tanzania,
Togo,
Zambia,
Zimbabwe

We are a multicultural and inclusive community,
living in fullness, peace and harmony with Mother
Earth and with all the beings that we inhabit in this
common house.
We promote the creation and articulation of
initiatives, projects, networks and sustainable
settlements to live and promote regenerative
lifestyles and resilient societies
GEN
REGIONS
CASA
LATINA
CASA LATINA

We support and develop inspiring initiatives, events and projects in the ecological,
social, cultural and spiritual fields.
We provide information, tools and training to accelerate the transition to
regenerative lifestyles.
We facilitate and participate in cultural and social processes of political incidence
and action to recognize and defend the Rights of Mother Earth.
2020 HIGHLIGHTS
The annual meeting of the CASA Latina network was held in its Colombia chapter, with
the participation of national and international delegates offering spaces for learning and
practice of sustainable and regenerative life .
This year the presence of members of CASA Latina was also achieved at the GEN Online
Summit and they actively participated in the restructuring process of the Global Ecovillage
Network, which was also carried out in a participatory and virtual manner.
CASA Latina also collaborated in the co-creation of the Ecovillage and Resilient
Communities Course in alliance with other organizations whose mission includes
alternative education

PROJECTS
GATHERINGS
Alliances for the Rights of Mother Earth . Education, alliances.
Education Operational Circle - Online trainings.
Mapping
Internal process project -Realization of 36 Yoga Classes online
• Carrying out 50 -virtual- circles of empathy
• Realization of 2 virtual Forum sessions to train the
operational team
On line Vision Councils in México, Colombia, Chile, Perú
“When we’re going to take care of a place, we’re going
to recognise this place as alive; holding it sacred,
learning about it, communicating with it over time.”
Charles Eisenstein.

CASA Latina implemented 30+ partnerships,
including: Art of Hosting Network, Transition
Network, Permaculture Latin
Network, Gaia U Latina, Ecopoblaciones,
Viracocha Foundation, OmniUnity Foundation,
Aldea Domo Ecovillage and El Jardin Ecoschool.
CONTACT INFO
www.redcasalatina.org
contacto@redcasalatina.org
IG @redcasalatina
FB @redCASAlatina
TW @casaecovillage
Youtube CASALatina /Asentamientos Sustentables
PARTNERSHIPS NATIONAL NETWORKS
Existing CASA national networks:
Photo credit to: Huehuecoyotl, MariaLuiza, 3er Foro DMT, André
Camilo Martinez, Daniela Herrera, Proyecto Gaia, Andrés Liévano

As the European Ecovillage Network, we envision a
conscious, resilient and sustainable Europe where
ecovillage and community values and lifestyles are
widely adopted.
We seek to achieve this vision by building bridges between
communities, inspiring and training to enable the creation
of new ones, and influencing policymakers and the public
through the promotion of ecovillage solutions as part of the
transition towards a more resilient society. .
GEN EUROPE
GEN
REGIONS
GEN
EUROPE

Despite the challenges of 2020, we were able to adapt and embrace change
thanks to our experience with online collaboration. We stayed connected through
member support calls, a successful online GA, and our first ever online gathering,
while continuing to create brand new learning and inspirational content, develop
new tools for members, and much more.
2020 HIGHLIGHTS
We embraced online learning through the Connect and Create course - a highly
successful experiment that took 70 people on an interactive learning journey to
help them take practical steps towards realising their ecovillage dreams.
We premiered a stunning new documentary, Communities of Hope, with online
screening events attended by hundreds. Now seen by over 25,000 people, it
provides an evocative entry point into the world of ecovillages.
We launched a web consultancy service for members to help them improve their
online presence
“The best online gathering I have ever been to”
“Although this was all virtual, I connected way more than I
thought I would from an online event.”
What If attendee feedback

PROJECTS
GATHERINGS
Our projects team worked hard to secure new projects that help achieve
our mission, spread ecovillage learnings and support our members.
WESEEN will build capacity in national networks, while the Yes to
Sustainability Partnership will support the incorporation of young
people in ecovillage lifestyles. We were also successful in securing a joint
Horizon2020 project on community-led energy transition.
We also continue to welcome ESC volunteers to the office with Erasmus+
funding, providing much-needed office support as well as a chance for
young people to get involved in the ecovillage world.
Having been forced to cancel our in-person summer event, we celebrated
our first ever Online European Ecovillage Gathering: a resounding
success, with two days of quality panels and workshops under the
theme What If? Ecovillage Solutions for Extraordinary Times. Over 300
people registered, and thanks to a lively Discord server we were able to
stimulate real connection, exchange and debate throughout. While we
look forward to meeting again in person, we were thrilled to discover
and stretch the possibilities of online interactivity and its implications for
opening up the world of ecovillages to an even wider audience.

NEW MEMBERS
CONTACT INFO
www.gen-europe.org
secretariat@gen-europe.org
facebook.com/geneurope
instagram.com/gen_europe
twitter.com/geneurope
REGIONAL NETWORKS
NATIONAL NETWORKS
GEN
ISRAEL
We welcomed three new aspiring member
ecovillages in the Czech Republic, Italy and the
UK, and welcomed Boekel in the Netherlands
as a full member.
Baltic Ecovillage Network,
Iberian Peninsula, WISE.
Austria, Bulgaria, Denmark, Estonia,
Finland, France, Germany, Hungary,
Poland, Italy, Israel, Netherlands,
Norway, Russia, Sweden, Switzerland,
Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom, &
Ireland.

GENNA Alliance, a multi-organisation collaborative,
focuses on advancing regenerative community
within Turtle Island - synergizing beyond our existing
organisations and networks to include the broader
regenerative movement.
We envision a world of interdependent, cooperative,
resilient communities stewarding the conditions of
regeneration, justice, peace, and abundance, to actualize
the flourishing of all life and generations to come.
GENNA NORTH AMERICA
GEN
REGIONS
GENNA
NORTH
AMERICA

In North America, there are thousands of community projects, numerous organizations,
and dozens of regional networks all focused on creating a more regenerative future.
GENNA is bringing them together in a “Participatory Commons” Alliance within the
larger regenerative communities movement.
2020 HIGHLIGHTS
GENNA organized and hosted a Regenerative Education Working Group Summit
November 13-15, 2020, bringing 28 leaders, learners, communities, networks and
organizations together to expand or form Working Groups in key topics for ways
to collaborate and synergize efforts in North America and internationally. Working
Groups, expanded or started at the Regen Ed Summit are:
• International Cooperation for Accreditation of Future Skills (ICAFS)/Open Badges
• Direct Funding Strategies
• Ecosystem Mapping
• Regenerative approaches to Higher Education
• Interoperability
• Online/Onland/Transformative Learning
• RegenEducation Ecosystem Framework
• Economic Sustainability for the Ecosystem

PROJECTS
GATHERINGS
O.U.R. Ecovillage, in British Colombia, Canada adapted to CoVid restrictions
and held its intensive immersion regenerative education series in an Online/
Onland format in Spring 2020.
GENNA continues to support data sharing research and development for
regenerative communities networking.
1st webinar with GENNA Ambassadors to activate collaborative networking
with ecovillages and aligned organizations in North America bioregions.
Networking Alliances - through participation in multiple summits and
gatherings we build relationships and shared knowledge across networks;
including Global Regeneration CoLab, Permaculture CoLab, SEEDS,
Ecoversities Alliance and many others.
2nd Annual North American Day of Sustainable Communities - though
in-person gatherings by CoVid, we had an increase in aligned and
synchronized events across movements worldwide.
NextGENNA’s 6th Annual Ecovillage Pathways, offered this year online in
English and French, June 13-26, 2020. Workshops highlighted topics on
healing in the 4 dimensions of sustainability: social, cultural, economical
and ecological and led to an ongoing webinar series in French, about
ecovillages and community living.
“Diversity Equity Inclusion …these are ongoing commitments and
values of our region, expanding support and connection with Black,
Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC) communities.”
Keala Young

NATIONAL NETWORKS
CONTACT INFO
www.gen-europe.org
secretariat@gen-europe.org
facebook.com/geneurope
instagram.com/gen_europe
twitter.com/geneurope
GEN-US became the Publisher of
Communities magazine, the journal of, by,
with and for communities and cooperative
culture for almost 50 yrs!
GENNA and NextGENNA are now
partnering to produce a quarterly
newsletter for our networks.
Ecovillages Canada launched its new
website, and offered a wide array of
webinar workshops in 2020.
GENNA representatives supported and
participated in partner intiatives, such as
Permaculture Institute of North America’s
Leadership Conference
ECOVILLAGES
CANADA

GENOA, the Global Ecovillage Network of Oceania & Asia, is
a network of people, ecovillages, organisations, networks, and
local government bodies in Oceania and Asia. GENOA promotes
ecovillage lifestyles and spaces where people live and work
together in a sustainable way, with dignity and integrity, in
harmony with each other and with nature.
GENOA aims to co-create a region of regenerative and restorative
culture through connecting, sharing, promoting, and supporting
existing and aspiring ecovillage communities, projects, and
individuals; and the organisations, networks, and local government
bodies that support them.
GENOA OCEANIA AND ASIA
GEN
REGIONS
GENNA
NORTH
AMERICA

In GENOA, we are finding more eco-projects like permaculture farms, green
schools and restoration sites following ecovillage principles and ecovillage design
being applied by national governments and organisations to support ecovillage
development and transition in hundreds of villages. The network and movement is
growing rapidly, in response to social, cultural, economic and ecological crises we
are facing today.
2020 HIGHLIGHTS FOR GENOA
Publication of seven newsletter issues in 2020 showcasing stories of ecovillages,
networks and eco-projects from the network.
Together with GEN International, GENOA activated the Regional GEN Ambassadors
network
GENOA was registered as an Incorporated Association in Australia
The GENOA Office continues to be fully staffed with an Office Manager, Networking
Coordinator and Communications Coordinator, with a functioning council who are
representatives from the network.
Reached out to over 500 participants through projects and events, with the social media
reach up to 224,280 people
The GENOA website currently being built together with NextGENOA
We send our deepest appreciation to the devoted members who stepped down in 2020
and warm welcome to the new faces joining our circle.

PROJECTS
GATHERINGS/EVENTS
ReGEN-Nations is an online co-learning journey and prototyping lab using whole
systems thinking to design solutions for social, cultural, economic, and ecological
resilience and regeneration. The project ran from September 2020 to March
2021 with 16 teams from 11 countries around Asia and Oceania. ReGEN hosted
10 workshops and webinars with key thought leaders, activists, trainers and
practitioners from the region for 200 people.
From 26-28 November 2020, GENOA hosted the online ecovillage gathering
Restore & Re-story - Coming Home to Ourselves, Our Communities and Mother
Earth embodying the power of community with body, mind and spirit sessions. It
received over 300 registrations and reached 179,499 people on social media.
The online ecovillage gathering Restore & Re-story with the contributions of
facilitators, educators, artists and activists around and beyond the regions.
There were eleven sessions stretched on the span of two and half days.
Ambassadors: GENOA hosted one webinar in July 2020 and two meetings
with ambassadors in September and November 2020.
GENOA Strategy and Visioning meeting was hosted from Feb 12-14, 2020
with the participation of active contributors, staff and council.
“Music, poetry, meditation, laughs and open sharing are
such beautiful ways to connect people who speaks different
languages but hold the same vision for the planet.”
Kay from the House of I (China) about Restore & Re-story

Restore & Re-story was truly a fruit of
partnership and community power. GENOA
has worked closely with organizations like
Ecoversities Alliance, Permayouth, GEN,
NextGENOA, GEN Australia, Possible Futures
and Resources Regeneration Labs; together
with many eco-communities, eco-villages,
eco-projects and individuals in the region to
manifest this harmonising event.
GENOA also worked with 20 thought-leaders,
activists, educators and practitioners around
the region in ReGEN-Nations.
Australia, Japan, NextGEN Korea
Bhutan, Cambodia, China, Hong Kong, India,
Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Aotearoa/New
Zealand, Philippines, Singapore, Sri Lanka,
Taiwan, Thailand, Vanuatu, Vietnam
ecovillage.org/region/GENOA
genoa@ecovillage.org
https://www.facebook.com/GENOceaniaAsia
NEW PARTNERSHIPS &
NATIONAL NETWORKS
EMERGING NETWORKS
CONTACT INFO
REGISTERED NETWORKS

NextGEN is the youth branch of the Global Ecovillage Network,
connection young people through ecovillages, regenerative education,
events, eco-projects, and nature-based living. We are united by
our youthful spirits, love for the earth, passion for community, and
understanding that we need viable, holistic solutions like ecovillages
to respond to the current global crisis.
We empower, educate, connect, and inspire young adults to take
action, foster community, join ecovillages and build a regenerative
world. We focus our work on the strategic areas of inspiration,
learning, action, connection, and empowerment.
NextGEN
ECOVILLAGE YOUTH NETWORK
GEN
REGIONS
GENNA
NORTH
AMERICA

HIGHLIGHTS FROM NEXTGEN IN 2020
CASA JÓVENES
Successfully implemented a communications/art and design team as well as
a fundraising team.
We have increased our presence on social media and our number of followers
on Facebook.
Represented CASA Jóvenes in the annual CASA Latina event “Llamado de la
Montaña/Call of the Mountain” in January, holding workshops and increasing
our number of members.
Re-structured NextGENOA core team with three new roles: focaliser,
treasurer, advocator
Advance in having a clear and rounded plan at the beginning of the year.
Co-hosted and had a representative from NextGENOA spoke in the Youth panel
of Restore & Re-story Gathering: Positive Youth [Pr]activism
Hosted a sharing on Archetype at Work with NextGENOA members and having
members joining the Archetype at Work workshops for NextGEN
Shared a series of inspirational quotes from GEN Online Summit 2020 on
NextGENOA Facebook Page
NEXTGENOA

NEXTGEN EUROPE
Social Media: Monthly ‘Youth in Ecovillage Experience’ post - Inspiring
storytelling from youth in our network (Facebook).
Sharing Circle: Large whatsapp group, with monthly facilitated video calls, with
the purpose of inviting youths to connect with the network, nextgen and community life -
entry point for newcomers and peer-to-peer project support.
Youth Exchanges and Trainings: We held one training for the creation of Youth
Exchanges and Youth Leaders, and one youth exchange
We supported the creation of the Dutch youth group (NextGEN Holland,
11 active members)
Showcase of NextGEN activities during the GEN Europe online gathering.
Online Ecovillage Pathways with over eight speakers and 20+ participants
Co-hosted with Whole Systems Network
French Community Discussion Group: 212 different participants
to the 9 sessions.
Three New Interns
Meetings with NextGENNA twice a month
Great content on our monthly newsletters
Released 8 Healing in Community Podcasts
NEXTGENNA

NEXTGEN AFRICA
NEXTGENNA
Online training on fundraising
Published one newsletter
Awarding 3 Next GEN Africa projects
Monthly council meetings
Online French Discussion Group: We had 212 different participants over
the course of 9 discussion group sessions.
Ecovillage Pathways which had ten classes highlighting different aspects
of the ecovillage movement
Release 8 Healing in Community podcasts
PROJECTS AND GATHERINGS
CASA JÓVENES
ESPEJO: we had a total of 6 online editions of our youth social permaculture
gathering with 60 to 100 young people participating in each one.
Avatar Camp: we had a total of 3 online editions of the Avatar Camp. In the
first one, which was free, about 350 young people have participated. On the
other 2, which were paid, about 15 to 20 young people have participated.

One newsletter
NEXTGENOA
NEXTGEN EUROPE
NEXTGEN AFRICA
Supported the Deep Ecology workshop which is a part of the Awaken
Leadership Training in Thailand in December 2019
Co-hosted the online ecovillage gathering “Restore & Re-story: coming
home to ourselves, our communities and Mother Earth” with GENOA in
November 2020
NextGEN Korea: ran a project ‘Life Design Challenge’, an online version of
mini-EDE that utilised mobile app to engage with the participants; hosted
an event to introduce about NextGEN Korea; Korean members were able
to physically gather to brainstorm about the activities in the coming year.
GEN Europe online gathering: our team offered two workshops, one
led by Viva on the topic of ‘Connecting with your ancestors to build
better futures: building empathy for future generations’, and one about
NextGEN Europe activities, held by the entire team.
We also supported 17 young people economically to attend the event.
Due to Covid restrictions, international gatherings were not possible, but
both the Italian and the Dutch NextGEN groups have gathered.
One newsletter
PROJECTS AND GETHERINGS

(NEW) PARTNERSHIPS AND COLLABORATIONS
CASA JÓVENES
We have strengthened our partnership with Buena Semilla Permacultural
and Gaia Union.
We have created a new partnership with OpEPA.
Stronger partnership with the Global Ecovillage Network in Oceania and Asia
(GENOA) in GENOA Gathering and in co-creating the Website
Collaboration with the Youth Council to develop the mapping project into a
NextGEN project with participation from other NextGEN regions.
Forming connection with the youth organizations (Permayouth in Australia,
STEP in the Philippines, Eden Hope in Vanuatu).
NextGENOA was working with GENOA and Gaia Ashram to organize an EDE in
2020, however the course was cancelled due to Covid situation
NEXTGENOA
NEXTGEN EUROPE
Cross-network collaboration for the mapping project with the
participation in the project’s coordination of two members of NextGEN
Europe.
Yes to Sustainability projects were funded by the Erasmus+ programme
of the EU

Meeting you has given my visions a more concrete and realistic frame. It feels good to know that what we are doing makes sense
in a bigger picture.
NEXTGEN AFRICA
NEXTGENNA
Awarding 3 Next Gen Africa projects
New members joined the Network
We managed to have a new Next GEN Africa council
Partnership with the Whole Systems Network
Interviewed members of the Center for Sustainability and Community
Culture for our podcast, which was shared with both networks
Made agreements with Belfast Ecovillage for event hosting post
pandemic
Expanded network into Quebec ecovillage movement
(NEW) PARTNERSHIPS AND COLLABORATIONS
NextGEN is a youth-led global network of young change
agents, ecovillage youth, and supporters of any age forming
an integral part of the wider GEN networks.
The work is coordinated in five regional teams plus the
Youth Council as a global circle for connection, coordination,
and cohesion.

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