Launch and Thrive - Awakening the networks

The Launch & Thrive project responded directly to a need and situation in which ecovillage networks within Europe felt the need to strengthen themselves. Some countries have national ecovillage ne...

The project had an OVERALL OBJECTIVE to assist national ecovillage networks throughout Europe to launch and thrive, thereby strengthening European cooperation in the field of ecovillage development, localization of the SDG’s and advocacy capacity through coordinated, legitimate and representative national ecovillage networks. The project thus pursued the following immediate objectives and goals: •The creation of a qualitative framework for setting up functional and thriving national ecovillage networks, through a MANUAL to guide the process. •The development of a MENTORSHIP PACKAGE, creating and piloting twinning and exchange schemes between national ecovillage networks. •To set up an ICT PLATFORM to systematize provision of information, knowledge exchange and problem solving to strengthen cooperation. •To showcase ecovillage networks on a national scale through SHORT VIDEOS promoting networking activities for active citizenship. •To set up a OLP (Online Learning Package) fusing the different educational resources and training materials made available through this project, showing the current state of the art and innovation that the already thriving ecovillage networks have to offer.