participation pour le réseau européen de permaculture
Benjamin Burnley
APPEL vers le réseau de PERMACULTURE EUROPÉEN
Votre participation est nécessaire pour faire avancer la permaculture en Europe!
Depuis près de 20 ans, le Conseil européen de Permaculture a fait un grand nombre de Permaculture européens Convergences (EuPC) et maintenu un site Web.
Au EuPC en Bulgarie (2014), un groupe d'environ 15 personnes de toute l'Europe ont été inspirés de passer à la prochaine étape… et ont décidé de créer un réseau exclusif dePermaculture européenne (EuPN) avec la bénédiction recueillies de l'EuPC.
EuPN vise à être un réseau d'organisations nationales / régionales et des groupes représentés par des délégués. Ces délégués coopèrent à unir leurs forces pour apporter des changements à travers l'Europe. Pour cela, ils peuvent créer des propositions qui seront discutés et ratifiés sur les niveaux nationaux et régionaux.
Le EuPN recueillera et publiera sur son site Internet qui a ratifié telle ou telle proposition. Maintenant, nous avons développé un draft de déclaration de "Vision, mission et les objectifs" et une proposition de ‘’principes et la structure du EuPN" pour aider à définir la route.
Avec cette lettre, nous vous invitons à lire et à discuter de ces propositions dans votre organisation et de nous fournir vos précieux commentaires sur cette première proposition. S'il vous plaît jeter un oeil sur le lien à l'appel (ou de lire le fichier pdf ci-joint) et suivre les demandes en vertu de "3. Vos actions".
Nous espérons recevoir vos commentaires sur "Vision, mission et les objectifs" et ‘’principes et la structure du EuPN" avant le 30 juin 2015.
Cette initiative est exclusive et l'apport de chacun est valorisé. Permaculture à travers toute l'Europe peut réussir plus vite si nous sommes tous une partie active de celui-ci!
Nous sommes impatients de faire des futures collaborations et faire avancer la permaculture !
Avec beaucoup d'excitation, Votre Groupe de travail EuPN Vision et Stratégie:
· Andy Goldring, Permaculture Association, Britain
· Claudian Dobos, Permaculture Research Institute of Romania
· Margarethe Holzer, Permakultur Akademie im Alpenraum, Austria
· Nenad Maljkovic, Croatian Permaculture Association
· Sandra Campe, Permakultur Akademie and Institut, Germany
· Volkmar Geiblinger, Austria
· Zvonko Orsolic, Permaculture Serbia
PS: Vous allez recevoir un email de Naomi van der Velden, qui coordonne le «Next Big Step Project» et qui vous demandera de remplir un questionnaire. Dans cet email, elle aura déjà mentionné que nous coopérons, de ce fait nous essayons de faire en sorte que le questionnaire du «Next Big Step Project» ne fasse pas doublon avec nos questions. »
Content of this letter
1. Vision, Mission and Aims of the European Permaculture Network (Proposal)
2. Proposal for EuPN Principles & Structure
5. Background & context of Permaculture in Europe
Vision, Mission and Aims of the European Permaculture Network
Vision:
We envision a diverse and vibrant Europe grounded in the ethics of permaculture
Mission:
We actively support the transition to an ethical and resilient Europe through nurturing an effective permaculture network with strong connections to the wider society and the world.
Aims:
I. Networking & Capacity Building
EuPN reinforces and supports the establishment of, and collaboration between, European permaculture organisations and builds bridges with like-minded organisations and networks all across Europe and beyond.
II. Communication & Image
EuPN sets up structures and support both for internal and external communication. It develops, implements and promotes a communication and image strategy.
III. Linking Research & Practice
EuPN nurtures links between permaculture practitioners and researchers. It fosters research skills within the permaculture network and ensures that research findings strengthen permaculture education and practice and influence policy.
IV. Application & Outreach
EuPN empowers citizens to design sustainable lifestyles based on the permaculture ethics and principles as the basic foundation for peaceful and inclusive societies. For this, it promotes permaculture tools and solutions in order to tackle conflicts & natural / human-made disasters and to provide sustainable relief response and independence of "help".
V. Connections to Policy levels
EuPN contributes its local, national and macro regional expertise to European policy levels. It supports decision makers and stakeholders to move European society forward on a resilient path.
VI. Scaling up
The EuPN develops strategies for resource mobilisation to scale up permaculture projects.
For more details about how reach these aims, see here: Aims extended - how we think we can move forward.
2. EuPN Principles & Structure
The document which is linked above includes the following proposals:
Three principles:
Self-government / sovereignty
Free agreements
Transparency
Structure, Governance and Decision-making
Purpose, Organisational design principle and Structure (Working groups, Country representatives)
Governance
Decision-making (within working groups, at the European Permaculture Convergence)
3. Your actions:
As we said in the introduction, we want this to be an inclusive process and for that, we ask you to give us feedback to what we worked out.
Please take the following action:
Discuss our proposed „Vision, Mission and Aims“-statement in your organisations.
Can you find a common ground on what you think about it?
Can you agree that this is “good enough for now and safe to try” to move forward?
Discuss the proposal for “EuPN Principles & Structure” in your organisations.
Can you find a common ground on what you think about it?
Can you agree that this is “good enough for now and safe to try” to move forward?
Feedback your thoughts and the outcomes of your discussion to us by June 30th, 2015. For your feedback, please use the comment function in this document. If you have longer feedback, please send us an e-mail: s.c...@permakultur-akademie.net
Contact Person:
Who from your organisation could dedicate some time to the current process of developing a European Permaculture Network? Those people could become involved in preparing an EuPN-workshop at the IPC, helping with strategic thinking and connecting your organisation to the EuPN, communicating our work into your organisation and generally moving the aims of the EuPN forward.
Ideally, these people are able to come to the IPC in September 2015.
If NONE of you have the capacity to do this, please name the person who can at least communicate news from the EuPN into your organisation!
4. Our next steps are:
Based on the feedback that we get from the national / regional permaculture organisations, we will develop 1-2 workshops for the IPC.
At the IPC, we will use these workshops to discuss the feedback, engage new organisations and to decide what the top actions until the EuPC 2016 in Italy are, so that we can use the time between the IPC and the EuPC 2016 productively to take the next steps.
5. Background & context of Permaculture in Europe
History of Permaculture Council and Convergences in Europe
The European Permaculture Institute was originally based in Steyerberg, Germany and managed by Declan Kennedy. In 1996 it moved to Copenhagen, Denmark, to the office of Tony Andersen. In 2006 the Institute was converted into The Permaculture Council for Europe.
Since 1992, the Permaculture Council has organized 12 European Permaculture Convergences. Meetings of the coucil have also happened in between these convergences.
While the council tried to implement democratic procedures of voting for the members of the council, its main work in recent years focused on finding the hosts of the next European Permaculture Convergence (EuPC). There has always been a long “wish list” for what the council could / should be doing but it never had the resources to get this going.
At the EuPC 2012 in Germany, a large group of people stepped forward as council members - out of which only a very small number of people actually kept the work going.
During the EuPC in Bulgaria in July 2014, several meetings of council members and other interested people were held. After an initial meeting in which the participants shared what they think the council is and should be, it was agreed that a process would be started in which a vision of permaculture in Europe would be created. A smaller group of people used the results of the vision workshop and of various council working group meetings to formulate a first draft of a „Vision, Mission and Aims“-statement for permaculture in Europe.
From this, 11 people stepped up to move this statement forward to prepare a strategy for a European Permaculture Network (EuPN) and to create a proposal. This now goes out to the existing permaculture organisations in Europe to create a wide basis of understanding, as we want the EuPN to be a mutually supportive network to make a difference across Europe.
The aim of this process is to join forces by creating closer connections between already existing structures and initiatives and to support those that are on the verge of formation to come into existence. We
The EuPN is not a top-down decision making body. The EuPN is intended to be a network of national and regional organisations and networks which decide who is their delegate / representative - who can then cooperate and create proposals to be discussed and ratified on national and regional levels. The EuPN will then collect and publish who ratified which proposal on its website.
Aims extended: How we think we could move forward
I. Networking and Capacity Building
EuPN reinforces and supports the establishment of, and collaboration between, European permaculture organisations and builds bridges with like-minded organisations and networks all across Europe and beyond.
Starting points are to find two contact persons per national or regional organisation (in collaboration with the Next Big Step project) that wants to be part of EuPN.
These people can then form and populate thematic working groups within EuPN. Some of these already exist and can be built on (especially around „Education“: European Permaculture Teachers' Network, Children and Permaculture working group, Permaculture College of Europe, etc.), others can be established according to needs and interests (e.g. „Design“, „Social Permaculture“, etc.).
The European Permaculture Convergences are an already existing support structure for exchange and will be organised from within EuPN for its support.
More long term, EuPN creates lists of organisations to link with on a European level and another one of key individuals in the public and private sector. Also, regional and macro regional networks will be supported in strengthening their connections.
If needed, a possible future step is to create a legal entity. Until a legal entity is established, existing organisations with official legal status can be used to secure funding.
II. Communication & Image
EuPN sets up structures and support both for internal and external communication. It develops, implements and promotes a communication and image strategy.
The first steps are:
- to offer a contact point for organisations interested in EuPN,
- to promote the mailinglist of the European Permaculture Network,
- to create a website with up-to-date information about the network (using existing content on permaculturecouncil.eu, plus history, mapping of organisations, calendar of events, links to members,...),
- to transform the newsletter of the European Teachers' Partnership (EPT) into a newsletter which covers all topics of EuPN,
- to be represented in the „Permaculture Magazine“ with a specific heading „EuPN News“.
Further steps can include the creation of a logo and brand manual including „standard applications“ (leaflets, cards, booklets,...), to develop a social media strategy and to build a database of relevant contacts.
III. Linking Research and Practice
EuPN nurtures links between permaculture practitioners and researchers. It fosters research skills within the permaculture network and ensures that research findings strengthen permaculture education and practice and influence policy.
The first steps to move this forward will be to form an European cluster of the Permaculture International Research Network (PIRN, currently facilitated by the Permaculture Association). This includes identifying practitioners for documenting and using scientific methods to analyse and learn from their practice.
Once these structures are in place, EuPN promotes research approaches and skills, for example by spreading the Research Handbook, and identify supportive European research networks and institutions.
IV. Application & Outreach
EuPN empowers citizens to design sustainable lifestyles based on the permaculture ethics and principles as the basic foundation for peaceful and inclusive societies. For this, it promotes permaculture tools and solutions in order to tackle conflicts & natural / human-made disasters and to provide sustainable relief response and independence of "help".
EuPN will identify and collaborate with permaculturists in Europe and worldwide that work on disaster and relief response and that use permaculture tools for social processes. EuPN creates links with experts in this area.
In the long run, EuPN offers a platform for support in peace work as well as disaster and relief response and offers permaculture training to peace / inclusion / disaster relief workers.
V. Connections to Policy levels
EuPN contributes its local, national and macro regional expertise to European policy levels. It supports decision makers and stakeholders to move European society forward on a resilient path.
Right away, EuPN builds on the connections that many European permaculture organisations create with ECOLISE. This “network of networks” helps to identify the unique and distinct contributions of permaculture to European societies' needs and to points out leverage points and key topics where expertise is needed (e.g. agriculture, transport, housing,...).
More long term, EuPN will find more partners and networks that have extra-expertise on specific topics to move key issues forward. Permaculture research findings will be used for policy briefings and communications with national and EU agencies and other NGOs.
VI. Scaling up
The EuPN develops strategies for resource mobilisation to scale up permaculture projects.
For this, EuPN will develop a funding and resource mobilisation policy based on the permaculture ethics. It identifies existing resources within the network and in the supportive environment, as well active fundraisers and national public and / or private funding sources.
In the long run, it brings together skills and information and provides a coordinating platform for project partnerships and the visibility of funded projects.
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