Social Innovation for Resilient Communities

8/9/2019 Social Innovation for Resilient Communities

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B.2. National Agency of the Applicant Organisation

Identification UK02 (UNITED KINGDOM)

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C. Participating organisation(s)

C.1. Applicant Organisation

PIC 944766421

Full legal name (National Language) Findhorn Foundation

Full legal name (Latin characters) Findhorn Foundation

Acronym

National ID (if applicable) DML.F113/SC007233

Department (if applicable)

Address The Park, Findhorn

Country United Kingdom

Region UKM2 - Eastern Scotland

P.O. Box

Post Code IV363TZ

CEDEX

City Forres, Moray

Website www.findhorn.org

Email

Telephone 1 +4401309690311

Telephone 2 +4401309690808

Fax

C.1.1. Profile

Type of Organisation Foundation

Is your organisation a public body? No

Is your organisation a non-profit? Yes

C.1.2. Background and Experience

Please briefly present your organisation (e.g. its type, size, scope of work, areas of specific expertise, specific social context and, if

relevant, the quality system used).

The Findhorn Foundation is an internationally acclaimed adult education workshop centre and inspirational ecovillage – Living and


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Learning Centre for Sustainability. Workshops that are run here benefit hugely from: the inspirational nature of the community in

which they are embedded – a model of sustainable human settlement; the caring ethos of the staff who live in and run the centre;

and the artistic and beautiful nature of the built and natural environment. All these features make it an ideal place to welcome some

of society’s more marginalised people.

The Findhorn Foundation, is mainly placed in two biggest venues: the Park in the Findhorn village and Cluny Hill in the town of

Forres; it is home to more than 400 people from all over the world, and welcomes thousands of visitors each year. The community

also extends to individuals, businesses and organisations within a 50 mile radius of The Park, and to the islands of Iona and Erraid on

the west coast of Scotland.

The Findhorn Foundation is a model for sustainable living - sustainable values are expressed in the built environment through our

ecological houses and innovative use of building materials, as well as applied technology in the Living Machine sewage treatment

facility and electricity-generating wind turbines. Sustainable values are also expressed in the community’s social, economic and

educational initiatives.

We aim to pioneer, inspire, demonstrate, encourage and share our experience. It is the consciousness, motivation, mindfulness,

creative energy and joy that we bring to all of these activities that make visions a reality and bring lasting, positive change to the

world.

What are the activities and experience of your organisation in the areas relevant for this project? What are the skills and/or expertise

of key persons involved in this project?

The Foundation focuses on holistic adult education – personal development; art and creativity; ecology and environmental

education; health and healing and personal well-being. It receives around 3000 people a year into residential workshops and has a

co-worker staff complement of some 90 FTEs. Its annual turnover is in the region of £1.8 million and it has assets with a book value

of over £5 million. It has a proven track record as a Charitable Trust dating back over 30 years. As such it is well placed to hold

responsibility for the administration of this grant.

The Findhorn Foundation is also an NGO associated with the UN; one of 9 official UN Training Centres for sustainability (CIFAL

Findhorn) and has won awards for best practice in human habitats.

Main representative:

Robin Alfred worked as a trainer, educator and social work manager for 15 years in London, prior to coming to the Findhorn

Foundation Community, Scotland in 1995. At the Foundation, Robin was initially responsible for a "reinvention" process – before

going on to Chair the Foundation’s Management Committee. He is founding director of the organisation's Consultancy Service and

also Chair of Trustees.

Robin has extensive experience of leading and developing groups and individuals in a variety of settings including prisons, social

work, police forces, communities and other organisations. Robin is trained in a wide variety of approaches to personal andorganisational development including: Appreciative Inquiry, the Frameworks for Change Coaching Process, Process Work, and Tools

for Corporate Transformation. He is also an associate and lead presenter for Olivier Mythodrama Associates for whom he delivers a

wide range of leadership trainings, based on Shakespeare plays and stories.

Robin has a BA degree in Economics, Philosophy and Politics, and an M.Phil in Criminology. He has been a faculty member of the

Findhorn Foundation’s Ecovillage Training for the past eight years, and has taught on Ecovillage Design Education courses at

Findhorn, Sieben Linden and Orissa, India. He represented the Findhorn Foundation on the two-year ‘Transition to Resilience”

Learning Partnership programme and has co-led the first iteration of the Transition to Resilience Training – A Learning Adventure for

Change Makers He has taught both the Social and Economy aspects of EDEs.

Robin co-facilitated the GEN Europe Conferences in 2012 and 2013 and is co-editor of ‘Beyond You and Me – Wisdom and Inspiration

for Building Community’ – the Social Key of the EDE.


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Have you participated in a European Union granted project in the 3 years preceding this application?

Yes

Please indicate:

EU Programme YearProject Identification or Contract

NumberApplicant/Beneficiary Name

Grundtvig 2009 GRP/09/141P Findhorn Foundation

Grundtvig 2012 2012-1-GB2-GRU13-08277 Findhorn Foundation

LEADER 2010 ML0072 Findhorn Foundation

C.1.3. Legal Representative

Title Ms

Gender Female

First Name Camilla

Family Name Bredal Pedersen

Department Management

Position Chair

Email [email protected]

Telephone 1 0044 1309 692109

If the address is different from the one of the organisation, please tick this box

C.1.4. Contact Person

Title Mr

Gender Male

First Name Robin

Family Name Alfred

Department Trustee

Position Chair


Telephone 1 0044 1309 691973


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C.2. Partner Organisation

PIC 999580539

Full legal name (National Language) FFCUL

Full legal name (Latin characters) FUNDACAO DA FACULDADE DE CIENCIAS DA UNIVERSIDADE DE LISBOA

Acronym FFCUL

National ID (if applicable) 503183504

Department (if applicable) SIM

Address CAMPO GRANDE EDIFICIO C1 PISO 3

Country Portugal

Region

P.O. Box

Post Code 1749016

CEDEX

City LISBOA

Website http://www.fc.ul.pt/node/654


Telephone 1 +351217500032

Telephone 2 +351217500448

Fax +351217500166

C.2.1. Profile

Type of Organisation Other

Is the partner organisation a public body? No

Is the partner organisation a non-profit? Yes


Please briefly present the partner organisation (e.g. its type, size, scope of work, areas of specific expertise, specific social context and,

if relevant, the quality system used).

The Fundação da Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa (FFCUL) is a private non-profit organization, created in 1993, as

an initiative of the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon, in order to manage financial and administratively its R&D projects.FCUL acts as a third party in those R&D projects based on a scientific agreement in force since FFCUL’s establishment.


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FFCUL acts as the front institution for a Portuguese scientific collaboration of multiple research groups (research centers for different

fields, such as Biology, chemistry, Geophysics, Information Technology, Physics, Geology, Statistics, Oceanography), with more than

400 ongoing projects. Many of these R&D activities are developed together with international teams and are funded both at national

and European levels. Its main purposes are to promote research and technological development activities, provide qualified humanresources training and offer consulting expertise and knowledge dissemination.

The Faculty of Sciences University of Lisbon (FCUL) has its mission in teaching, innovative research and knowledge transfer in the

areas of exact, natural and techno sciences, as well as in producing, disseminating and sharing knowledge and cultures. It is engaged

in stimulating an ongoing and open dialogue with civil society through multiple interconnections with social and economic actors.

FCUL is internationally recognized as a benchmark institution in the creation of scientific knowledge, promoting excellence in

teaching, research and the enhancement of social and economic knowledge. Among the Faculty’s current Strategic Objectives are

promoting the social and economic value of knowledge and ensuring the sustainability of the economic sphere. The Faculty hosts

the Laboratory for Systems, Instrumentation and Modeling in Science and Technology for Space and the Environment (SIM), a

research center established in 2003. The SIM laboratory has two research groups, among them one on Climate Change Impacts,

Adaptation and Modelling (CCIAM), mostly funded by the European Union. CCIAM integrates 7 PhDs and 20 masters and graduates

that support the ongoing European and national research projects as well as national and international services in the fields of

Climate Change and Sustainability.What are the activities and experience of the partner organisation in the areas relevant for this project? What are the skills and/or

expertise of key persons involved in this project?

CCIAM research group bring together scientists from several disciplines who conduct trans-disciplinary research on both local,

national and international level and its objectives fall within 5 main domains: Impacts assessment: to conduct pioneering research

on climate change (CC) impacts on water resources, coastal zones, forests, biodiversity, agriculture, public health, tourism, energy

demand, and transports; Adaptation: to contribute towards national and global research on adaptation to CC; Transition to

Sustainability: to promote actionresearch on the search for effective solutions for the integral crisis Humanity faces today;

Networking: to establish national and international networks; and Dissemination: to disseminate research results.

The CCIAM engages in transformative and action-research towards a more sustainable and resilient planet and society. This group

also leads the Inter-University Doctoral program entitled "Climate Change and Sustainable Development" sustained by the three

major universities of Lisbon.

Besides adult training programs and work towards improving educational infrastructures, a major component of the institution’sstrategy for promoting the dissemination of science targeting the needs of society are various international partnerships with

institutions of higher education, but also cooperatives and other grassroots initiatives and networks with civic actors (change

agents). FCUL has close links with the international Transition Network and with Transition Portugal and is involved in various local

to international cooperative projects.

The contact person, Dr. Gil Penha-Lopes, is a Post-Doc and project coordinator in the CCIAM, responsible for the topics of Transition,

Resilience and Empowerment. He is also a Transition Trainer and an Integral Coach.

Has the partner organisation participated in a European Union granted project in the 3 years preceding this application?

Yes

Please indicate:

EU Programme YearProject Identification or Contract

NumberApplicant/Beneficiary Name

FP7 2013

IMPRESSIONSFFCUL

FP7 2012 BASE FFCUL

FP7 2010 CIRCLE-2 FFCUL

ETC 2011 EEA/NSV/10/01 FFCUL



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Title PROFESSORS

Gender Male

First Name JOSE MANUEL / JORGE

Family Name REBORDAO / RELVAS

Department NA

Position ADMINISTRATION BOARD


Telephone 1 +351217500448



Title Doctor

Gender Male

First Name Gil

Family Name Penha-Lopes

Department Physics

Position Post-Doc Researcher / CCIAM Coordinator


Telephone 1 +351918362396



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PIC 940338468

Full legal name (National Language) Altekio

Full legal name (Latin characters) Altekio, iniciativas hacia la sostenibilidad, S.Coop.Mad.

Acronym

National ID (if applicable) 28/CM-4675


Address C/ Principe de Vergara 211, Esc. Izq. 4º-E

Country Spain

Region ES30 - Comunidad de Madrid

P.O. Box

Post Code 28002

CEDEX

City Madrid

Website www.altekio.es

Email

Telephone 1 +34917585961

Telephone 2 +34656441365

Fax

C.3.1. Profile

Type of Organisation Non-governmental organisation/association/social enterprise






Altekio, based in Madrid, Spain, is a private non-profit social enterprise (a cooperative), created in January 2008 and put in place by 5

professionals working in the field of environmental, social and economic sciences.Its main objective is to promote sustainable lifestyles for people and organizations in order to move towards a more resilient society,


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economy and planetary living.

Altekio contributes with its expertise in a systemic and comprehensive approach to address sustainability within their projects by

means of integrating the ecological, social and economic dimensions in theory and practice. Altekio is an organization with a long

experience in leading processes of social transformation and innovation.

As trainers, consultants and researchers in the field of environmental, social and economic sustainability, its members provideservices like the support in the facilitation of leadership, organizational transformation, community empowerment and social

entrepreneurship.

Based on the belief that the means to reach the objectives are key elements, Altekio uses innovative methodologies such as social

technologies (Open Space, World Cafe, Pro-action cafe...), the Oasis game, future scenario planning, etc.

From the beginning Altekio has co-worked with other social enterprises, sharing offices and resources.

This is a reflection of Altekio's organizational culture of cooperation and collaboration.

In this sense, Altekio is also part of a cooperative group (Tangente Grupo Cooperativo - www.tangente.coop) that brings together 16

social enterprises and 60 workers.

Some projects are developed jointly with some of these organizations.

Altekio is involved in "Madrid Social Market (MSM)", which is a network composed by more than 100 social enterprises and consumer

groups, aiming to become a reference in the transformation of the economy into field that takes into account the human scale, by

considering the social and ecological impacts in addition to the economical one. The MSM has its own local and complementarysocial currency system, called the "boniato".

What are the activities and experience of the partner organisation in the areas relevant for this project? What are the skills and/or


Altekio develops the following activities relevant for this project:

· Social and environmental entrepreneurship projects:

o Oasis game: The Oasis Game is a community mobilization tool developed by Instituto Elos in Brazil and disseminated in Spain by

Altekio to materialize collective dreams. The game involves players and communities, bringing together people from many different

areas of society such as NGOs, local government, nearby businesses and the community itself. It was conceived to be applied at nocost and in a fully cooperative way so that, together, all participants can accomplish a common goal. The design of the Oasis Game

strives to allow all players to be winners, without exception.

o Social entrepeneurship pedagogical toolkit: This pedagogical toolkit has been created (in collaboration with the Spanish partner

Proempleo) within the Leonardo PACTES project. It is a specific educational tool for professionals who work in the field of

entrepreneurship within the Social and Solidarity Economy (SSE), both at a training level and for consultancy. Moreover, it will be

useful for entrepreneurs who are promoting business initiatives within the SSE. The toolkit is the result of the exchange, the sharing

of expertise and the innovation of the 4 partner organizations from Germany, Belgium, Spain and France.

o Project Fresnedas con Futuro (Fresnedas with Future): The main objective of the project is the promotion of new social businesses

and the creation of green employment taking into account the potentialities for the endogenous, local and sustainable

development offered by the exploitation of the ash pastures, maintaining and improving its socio-environmental heritage. Research,

training and advice activities for entrepreneurs are developed.

· Adult training programs and workshops:

o Sustainable Entrepreneurships and Settlements Design Education: A comprehensive course in the fundamentals of Sustainability

Design. Curriculum conceived and designed by the GEESE (Global Ecovillage Educators for a Sustainable Earth). Offered in 34

countries. The knowledge acquired in the course is applicable to a wide variety of real environments: organizations, companies,

neighbourhoods, local communities, in-transition villages and cities and even in whole regions.

o Groups/Teams Facilitation, Leadership and organizational trasnformation: Courses of 120 hours developed in 7 weekend

seminars focused on the following issues: group facilitation; governance and decision-making; effective meetings; conscious

communication, conflict transformation, strategic planning; facilitation techniques and skills. Consultancy and facilitation for

organizations are also offered.

Altekio

The key persons involved in this project (Concepción Piñeiro, Javier Fernández y Jorge Navacerrada) are the same who lead the

mentioned activities above. They have developed their training in these fields in the last 15 years. Their experience is based both on


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the activities already developed during their professional environment with Altekio and their previous working experiences, mainly

in social and environmental organizations. Their skills are those required for fulfilling the aims of the former projects. The following

are some of them: competences for team work and task coordination within the latter, communication skills (listening included),

talent for innovation and creativity, risk assuming capacity, competences for training adult people, ability to inspire other people.


No


Title Mr

Gender Male

First Name Javier

Family Name Fernandez

Department N/A

Position Administrator


Telephone 1 +34917585961

✖ If the address is different from the one of the organisation, please tick this box

Address C/ Montera 9, 5º5

Country Spain


P.O. Box N/A

Post Code 28012

CEDEX N/A

City Madrid

Telephone 2 +34676968374


Title Mr.

Gender Male

First Name Jorge

Family Name Navacerrada


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Department N/A

Position Training coordinators


Telephone 1 +34917585961


Address C/ Montera 9, 5º5

Country Spain


P.O. Box

Post Code 28012

CEDEX

City Madrid

Telephone 2 +34656441365


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PIC 945460165

Full legal name (National Language) plenum GmbH

Full legal name (Latin characters) plenum GmbH

Acronym

National ID (if applicable) 247583V


Address Lindengasse 2/14

Country Austria

Region AT13 - Wien

P.O. Box

Post Code 1070

CEDEX

City Wien

Website plenum.at

Email

Telephone 1 +4315246846

Telephone 2

Fax +431524684620

C.4.1. Profile



Is the partner organisation a non-profit? No




p l e n u m – “society for holistic sustainable development” was founded in

January 2008 as a succession organisation of the Austrian Institute for Sustainable Development. We consult, train and accompanybusinesses, organisations and individuals in the area of sustainability, value-oriented management, corporate social responsibility


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and social entrepreneurship.

Since 2010 we offer a year-long training program called "Pioneers of Change" that supports social innovators at an early stage. The

program strengthens their leadership capabilities and enhances skills and knowhow to transform individual visions of a sustainable

and peaceful society into concrete projects and organisations like social businesses.

Plenum has 6 permanent employees and a bigger number of project staff. Plenum is strategically combining education, consulting

and research. The Plenum Academy is offering proven training courses like the training course for CSR-Managers called

“Quintessenz”, Pioneers of Change or short-term workshops (like the international Grundtvig-Workshop “Sustainable Innovation

Quest” in 2012). Secondly, Plenum is creating its main income by consulting big corporations in their sustainability strategy and

corporate social responsibility. Thirdly, Plenum is cooperating with research institutions like universities to research issues like

sustainable lifestyles, sustainable economics or even ecovillages (like for example funded by the Austian Climate Fund).



p l e n u m – “society for holistic sustainable development” was founded in

January 2008 as a succession organisation of the Austrian Institute for Sustainable Development. We consult, train and accompany

businesses, organisations and individuals in the area of sustainability, value-oriented management, corporate social responsibility

and social entrepreneurship.

Since 2010 we offer a year-long training program called "Pioneers of Change" that supports social innovators at an early stage. The

program strengthens their leadership capabilities and enhances skills and knowhow to transform individual visions of a sustainable

and peaceful society into concrete projects and organisations like social businesses.

Plenum has 6 permanent employees and a bigger number of project staff. Plenum is strategically combining education, consulting

and research. The Plenum Academy is offering proven training courses like the training course for CSR-Managers called

“Quintessenz”, Pioneers of Change or short-term workshops (like the international Grundtvig-Workshop “Sustainable Innovation

Quest” in 2012). Secondly, Plenum is creating its main income by consulting big corporations in their sustainability strategy and

corporate social responsibility. Thirdly, Plenum is cooperating with research institutions like universities to research issues likesustainable lifestyles, sustainable economics or even ecovillages (like for example funded by the Austian Climate Fund).

DI Dr. Alfred W. Strigl

Alfred Strigl is CEO of p l e n u m. He is council member in the Austrian Institute for Sustainable Development, member of ESD

(European Sustainable Development) and was in the Austrian Delegation in the World Summit on Sustainable Development in

Johannesburg. Dr. Strigl teaches on the Vienna Universität für Life Sciences and the Asia Pacific University in Beppu, Japan. He leads

and designs the Management Training for Corporate Social Responsibility since 2003 (now called “Quintessenz”) and is a key

enabler, trainer and mentor for the Pioneers of Change Program.

Mag. Sylvia Brenzel:

Sylvia Brenzel studied Environmental Economics and worked from 2003-2007 in the Austrian Business Academy for Sustainable

Development. She developed the first training program for managers in Corporate Social Responsibility, before she cofoundedplenum in 2008. Sylvia focusses on education for sustainable development. She has extensive expertise in Curriculum Design,

Teaching in international Institutions, Coaching and Social Entrepreneurship.

DI (FH) Martin Kirchner:

Martin Kirchner developed and leads the „Pioneers of Change“ program. He was trainer and consultant for several NGOs focussing

on education for sustainable development. His work builds on his extensive experience in systemic coaching, nonviolent

communication, social entrepreneurship, permaculture and project management. Martin was Initiator and Project Coordinator of a

model settlement for a more sustainable lifestyle („Cohousing Pomali“), was council member of the Global Ecovillage Network and

cofounder of the austrian communities network “Austrotopia”.


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PIC 948931213

Full legal name (National Language) Global Ecovillage Network

Full legal name (Latin characters) Global Ecovillage Network

Acronym

National ID (if applicable) SC043796


Address The Park, Findhorn

Country United Kingdom

Region UKM2 - Eastern Scotland

P.O. Box

Post Code IV36 3TZ

CEDEX

City Findhorn, Forres

Website www.gen.ecovillage.org

Email

Telephone 1 +44 1309 691973

Telephone 2 +44 7411303940

Fax

C.5.1. Profile







The Global Ecovillage Network or GEN-International was founded in 1995 and, after having been incorporated as an NGO in other

countries, was formally registered as Scottish Charity in January 2013.


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The Global Ecovillage Network (GEN), set up in 1995, is an umbrella organisation working to support the experimental creation and

preservation of low impact lifestyles across the globe. GEN comprises of actors working in multiple sectors, ranging from individuals,

communities, businesses and NGOs, to educational institutions and government. It serves as an alliance between rural and urban,

traditional and intentional communities (with some of the lowest per capita carbon footprints recorded). Through the sharing of

best practice and innovative solutions, and the honouring of deep-rooted traditional knowledge and local cultures, GEN is creating apool of wisdom for sustainable living on a global scale.

The Global Ecovillage Network envisions a world of empowered citizens and communities, designing and implementing their own

pathways to a sustainable future, and building bridges of hope and international solidarity. GEN works closely with 6 regional offices

on all continents, one of which is the GEN-Europe organisation and office, based in Germany.

GEN has consultative status with UN-ECOSOC (Economic and Social Council) and is a partner of the UNITAR-CIFAL initiative which

provides training in sustainable development to local government officials around the world.

Mission

One of the most effective ways of spreading ecovillage strategies while building networks of support and collaboration is through

educational programs. The Ecovillage Design Education (EDE) is now running on all continents, with the encouragement and

promotion of local trainers. The EDE is a 4 week-long training whith the curriculum has been recognised and endorsed as setting a

standard for the United Nations’ ‘Decade of Education for Sustainable Development – 2005-2014’. The EDE is universal in scope butlocal in application, directed towards honouring and drawing out valuable cultural diversity (see www.gaiaeducation.net for more

information).

As a solution-based, multi-stakeholder alliance, GEN provides information, tools, examples and global representation to the

expanding network of those dedicated to developing and demonstrating sustainability principles and practices in their lifestyles and

communities around the world.

Goals

1. To advance the education of individuals from all walks of life by sharing the experience and best practices gained from the

networks of ecovillages and sustainable communities worldwide.

2. To advance human rights, conflict resolution and reconciliation by empowering local communities globally while promoting a

culture of mutual acceptance and respect, effective communications, and cross-cultural outreach.

3. To advance environmental protection globally by serving as a think tank, incubator, international partner organization and

catalyst for projects that expedite the shift to sustainable and resilient lifestyles.4. To advance active citizenship and community development by coordinating the activities ofregional ecovillage networks and

reaching out to wider society and policy makers in order to accelerate the transition to sustainable living.

Main Activities

To provide information, tools, examples and representation to the expanding networks of those dedicated to developing and

demonstrating sustainability principles and practices in their lifestyles and communities around the world

To co-ordinate the activities of a number of regioregional ecovillage networks around the world

To serve as an incubator and platform for international projects and initiatives that accelerate the shift to sustainable lifestyles and

more resilient societies.



GEN-International brings a strong expertise in developing and delivering Educational Curricula for Capacity Building for the

transition to resilient communites. One of the most effective ways of spreading ecovillage strategies while building networks of

support and collaboration is through educational programs. The Ecovillage Design Education (EDE), developed through GEN, is now

running on all continents, with the encouragement and promotion of local trainers. The EDE is a 4 week-long training whith the

curriculum has been recognised and endorsed as setting a standard for the United Nations’ ‘Decade of Education for Sustainable

Development – 2005-2014’. The EDE is universal in scope but local in application, directed towards honouring and drawing out

valuable cultural diversity (see www.gaiaeducation.net for more information).

An EU-funded Learning Partnership brought together the expertise of eight key European educational movements in the field of

sustainability, amongst them the Global Ecovillage Network in the years 2010-2011.

Building on the best of the Ecovillage Design Education, the Transition Town Training, the Permaculture Design Certificate Course,

Spiral Dynamics Trainings, and the Art of Hosting body of experience, the Transition to Resilience Training has been designed to

support active citizens and their local governments in setting up projects for sustainability (building community in cities and towns,


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setting up Transition Town or similar initiatives, achieving CO2-reduction, enhancing bioregions, establishing village networks etc.

GEN-International, Scotland brings experience and knowledge of grassroots sustainability initiatives from over 10,000 ecovillages

around the world.It also brings the results from the EU Learning Partnership “Transition to Resilience” and the learning materials

produced.GEN-International is also part of the ECOLISE Network and works closely with AEIDL to strengthen community-led response to

Climate Change within the EU.

Main representative:

Kosha Anja Joubert (MSc Organisational Development) is an international facilitator, trainer, manager and consultant. She has

worked extensively in the fields of curriculum development, international collaboration and sustainable development.

Kosha currently serves as President of the Global Ecovillage Network (GEN-International). GEN was set up in 1995 to support

organisations and societies to transition into resilience, learning to sustain and regenerate their social and natural environments.

GEN builds bridges between policy-makers, academics, entrepreneurs and sustainable community networks across the globe. GEN

has consultative status in the UN - ECOSOC. (www.ecovillages.org).

Kosha simultaneously holds the position of Managing Director of GEN-Europe, the European branch of GEN-International (www.gen-

europe.org). In this role she has been the driving force behind the emergence of GEN-Africa as an independent region within GEN,

and is currently working with organisations in the Middle East on the emergence of GEN-Middle East. Through this, Kosha has gained

extensive experience in working with participants from these regions in Leadership and Sustainable Venture Trainings, financed and

funded through the German Foreign Ministry and the Anne Lindh Foundation.

Kosha is a co-founder of Gaia Education, which develops trainings at the cutting-edge of sustainability, and sits on the Certification

Board of Gaia Education (www.gaiaeducation.net). She is co-author of the internationally applied Gaia Education curriculum, The

Ecovillage Design Education, the development of which was endorsed by UNITAR and recognised as an official contribution to the

UN ‘Decade for the Education for Sustainable Development 2004-2014’. The Ecovillage Design Education has been run in 35

countries since 2006. Kosha has been lead faculty on 14 of these courses.


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Title Mrs.

Gender Female

First Name Kosha Anja

Family Name Joubert

Department N/A

Position President


Telephone 1 00441309691973




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Title Mrs.

Gender Female

First Name Kosha

Family Name Joubert

Department N/A

Position President


Telephone 1 00441309691973



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PIC 939921077

Full legal name (National Language) Wind Harvest

Full legal name (Latin characters) Still Consulting Sprl

Acronym

National ID (if applicable) 0465 53 19 02


Address Bijenkorfstraat 62

Country Belgium

Region

P.O. Box

Post Code 1030

CEDEX

City Schaerbeek

Website

Email

Telephone 1 +32495501919

Telephone 2

Fax

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Is the partner organisation a non-profit? No




Still Consulting SPRL is a private company focusing on consulting, assisting and researching as well as educating of individuals and

teams in holistic business, marketing and human relations systems, strategies and methodes.


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The main focus currently is Windharvest, which is operating under Still Consulting SPRL.

Wind Harvest is a start up private company, based and founded on Holistic principals, with its main focus on the development and

design, as well as the selling and spreading of renewable energy, more concretely of 70kW vertical axis wind turbines, into local

communities, crises and disaster areas as well as already existing wind parks. Through the assistance and facilitation of communities in the process of stepping into Ownership of their Energy production and

becoming independent from the energy market, Still Consulting SPRL / Wind Harvest aims for initiating the process of transitioning

towards a respectful, honest and authentic living, in which the 4 aspects of a sustainable Lifestyle– the Social, Economical, Ecological

and Awareness – are addressed, stimulated and worked on together.

The process of owning the Energy production can be seen and functions as an important catalyser, in the process towards the

building of sustainable Communities and the Empowerment of new and holistic ways of working and living together with and in a

inclusive and divers way and setting.

It is the support of responsible, active and resilient citizenship.

Still Consulting SPRL / Wind Harvest is with its offices based at Euclides, a centre for social economic activity and support, in

Anderlecht, Brussels Belgium

It is employing 12 people in the design, selling and maintenance of this 18m high Wind turbines and people in the team-andbusiness development, focusing on the inclusive working, meaning collecting multiple perspectives and emerging the collective

intelligence.

Currently certifying the production prototype in Denmark, it is looking to develop the business globally using the licensee model,

where a percentage of profit is allocated to local community investment as part of the contract.

Apart from the engineering required technically for the turbines, there is use of emergent skills in the dealing with the holistic value

creation with all members of the community in order to co-create holistic value, the optimising of value, instead of maximising

shareholder returns.

It enhances an inclusive participative value creation, where the allocation of profit lay by whole system.



Still Consulting, Belgium, brings knowledge and expertise of the learning and navigation process of their holistic business approach. The aim to create and optimize value for the whole community, including the multi perspectives of each part and the whole working

field.

They bring knowledge of how social entrepreneurship involves the whole community in the journey to create resilient

environments.

Through their experience, they contribute to the understanding and development of new modes of working, to create a financially

healthy environment, the financial leg of Resilience. Shaping knowledge into tools, trainings and learning spaces is part of their

holistic business strategy. The tools include aspects of inclusive, participative value creation, the profit allocation by the whole

system, navigational skills based on complex human and field systems, relationships and boundaries as part of value creation. Being

part of a Partnership like the SIRCle, is an element of their business strategy, as being a learning organisation and listening to the

emergent collective intelligence.

The people dedicated to this project have extensive experience in the use of emergent skills with all types of organisations both

profit and non profit; coaching and leading such organisation through difficult transitions, both economic and social; offeringtraining, teaching and experiential working with individuals and groups from all parts of the economic spectrum.

A highly respected Senior International (turnaround) executive; Julian Still has successfully completed many complex interim

assignments, transition challenges and coaching missions, across Europe.

A dynamic Hands-on General Operations professional, who is a passionate advocate and practitioner of new sustainable business

methodologies and tools currently emerging in the field of complexity and systemics, with extensive practical experience and a

proven ability to make the difference and enable turnaround and transition.

A creative interim manager, whose success in leading, building and coaching teams, is based on a blend of energy, enthusiasm,

humour, maturity and balanced hard and soft skills leading to empowered employees, highly satisfied customers, and trustful

shareholders.

A senior coach/trainer with experience of coaching senior Directors of the EU commission, training multi-cultural groups in

transition skills, and conflict resolution.

Possessing superb interpersonal, coaching and communication skills, tri-lingual (English, Dutch and French), and a winner of the


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Belgian Interim Manager of the year award in 2005, for turning around a failing four company acquisition to create Belgium’s third

Internet, data & telephone company.

Luea Ritter has a background as artistic director and organiser for various arts organisations both nationally and internationally and

founded and co-curated several festivals such as f.e. Arpia (www.arpia-art.be), a platform bringing together art, landscape andcitizens.

The main focus of her work in the artistic sector has moved towards building bridges and dialogues between different regional,

national and international communities and sectors, in which she has a strong focus on sustainable and resilient approaches to the

inclusive and participatorial living and working together that balance inner and outer worlds in times of transition, including our

environments we cohabitate.

Translation and (ex)-change processes between people, teams, communities and sectors are essential and connect with her work as

a systemic constellation practitioner, consultant and facilitator for individuals, teams and communities.

She is part of the Development Team of Windharvest and the GEN-International Team.


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Title Mr.

Gender Male

First Name Julian

Family Name Still

Department Centre

Position CSO


Telephone 1 +32 495501919


Address Rue de chimiste 34

Country Belgium

Region BE10 - Région de Bruxelles-Capitale/Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest

P.O. Box N/A

Post Code 1070

CEDEX N/A

City Anderlecht

Telephone 2 N/A


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Title Mr.

Gender Male

First Name Julian

Family Name Still

Department Centre

Position CSO


Telephone 1 +32495501919


Address Rue du chimiste 34

Country Belgium

Region BE10 - Région de Bruxelles-Capitale/Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest

P.O. Box N/A

Post Code 1070

CEDEX N/A

City Anderlecht

Telephone 2 N/A


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PIC 940416359

Full legal name (National Language) AEIDL

Full legal name (Latin characters) Association Européenne pour l'Information sur le Développement Local

Acronym

National ID (if applicable) 11497/88


Address Chaussée Saint-Pierre 260

Country Belgium

Region

P.O. Box

Post Code 1040

CEDEX

City Brussels

Website www.aeidl.eu

Email

Telephone 1 +3227364960

Telephone 2

Fax +3227360434

C.7.1. Profile

Type of Organisation Non-governmental organisation/association/social enterprise






The European Association for Information on Local Development (AEIDL) is a non-profit organisation specialising in the co-

ordination of European networks, databases and multilingual publications, the widespread dissemination of information to targetedaudiences, the provision of methodological tools to local development actors throughout Europe and the design and development


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of websites and electronic databases.

AEIDL is a multicultural and multilingual organisation. Its permanent staff are qualified and experienced in the management of

information, research and documentation, information technology, journalism, publishing and event management. The team also

comprises experts in rural development, regional policy, the environment and European citizenship. AEIDL’s core team iscomplemented by an extensive network of external partners and experts in every country of the European Union. AEIDL is a social

enterprise (Belgian asbl statute) which recently celebrated its 25th anniversary of doing radical consultancy and development across

very different territories (fisheries/coastal, urban, rural, mountains, islands and ultra peripheral) and on a range of policy themes

(environment, employment, inclusion, regeneration, etc). Its Brussels offices are located close to Schuman (metro Merode one stop

from Schuman, four stops from Beaulieu), and include a couple of meeting rooms, hot desking facilities and video conferencing

equipment. It is experienced at organising and delivering a wide range of consultancy activities including events, communication,

training (eg green entrepreneurship for Tunisian entrepreneurs), research and consultancy. It has two decades of experience

working with the cohesion policy DGs (Employment and Regio) and currently runs the communication activities of the LIFE

programme for DG Environment, as well as running local development evaluation and research. We currently have a joint venture

to run the fisheries community platform FARNET for DG MARE across 21 Member States, and perhaps in the future will be involved

in running the much larger rural development network across all 28. We ran over a period of four years the DG Employment ESF

learning networks. AEIDL also recently delivered the EU 50 Urban cases for DG Regio to much critical acclaim.AEIDL has a diverse team based in Brussels, and close associates in all the Member States. In addition, it can rely on a wide network

of experts covering its main fields of activity (environment, climate change, agriculture, rural development, food-chain, fisheries,

communication, social media, dissemination, etc.) Jean is the Managing Director based in Brussels, Eamon is project manager, based

in France. With AEIDL’s support, he initiated the idea which gave birth to the ECOLISE network. The members of ECOLISE include

international, national and sometimes regional networks of community-based initiatives, as well as other bodies engaged in

European-level research, training, communications or other activities to support community-

based action on climate change and sustainability. By bringing these organisations together, ECOLISE seeks to establish a common

Europe-wide agenda and a platform for collective action.


expertise of key persons involved in this project?AEIDL has developed considerable expertise in running support services for the networking of specific groups of people. The main

networks facilitated by AEIDL and its partners, on behalf of the Commission include the following:

DG Agriculture: European Evaluation Network for Rural Development (Evaluation Expert Network - 2009 - ongoing)

DG Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: FARNET, the European Fisheries Areas Network (Axis 4 of the EFF – 2009 - ongoing)

DG Employment and Social Affairs: ESF-TCI - Transnational and innovative actions networks under the European Social Fund (ESF –

2009-2013)

DG Employment and Social Affairs: EQUAL- European networks promoting the exchange of experiences and the diffusion of

innovative practices in the area of entrepreneurship (Community Initiative for Emplyment – 2001-2008)

AEIDL has always worked in close cooperation with external experts. This is a necessity to provide our client with the best

combination of expertise and communication capacities.

The Helpdesk of the European Evaluation Network for Rural Development co-managed by AEIDL is based on a pool of experts

aiming to promote and facilitate the use of evaluation in the development and implementation of rural development policies.

The FARNET “Support Unit” co-managed by AEIDL gathers thematic and geographic experts from all over Europe to provide

technical support in establishing and coordinating a network of Fisheries Local Action Groups (FLAGs) and other stakeholders

involved in the delivery of Axis 4 of the European Fisheries Fund (EFF).

Within the ESF-TCI contract, AEIDL coordinated th pool of experts who monitored 10 transnational cooperation networks.

The LIFE programme has a large team of thematic experts in charge of the monitoring of LIFE projects. They have contributed to the

drafting of the thematic dossiers produced by the LIFE Communication Team managed by AEIDL.

An important part of AEIDL's expertise concerns the dissemination of good practice, including the collection of information on

methods and instruments, and the presentation of information to make it available to diverse target groups. AEIDL has experience in

developing and publishing detailed descriptions of good practice examples undertaken by individual organisations or by trans-


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national partnerships. These are presented as “success stories”, innovative actions, as part of a thematic publication or as magazine

articles.

The activities which fall into the ECOLISE network’s basket are also very relevant to this project. Indeed, to support its member

organisations in achieving this vision, the mission of ECOLISE is to be a shared platform for learning, action and advocacy ofcommunity led initiatives on climate change and sustainability in Europe. Through its activities, ECOLISE seeks to raise the profile of

community-based action on climate change and sustainability in Europe, to facilitate exchange, cooperation and knowledge

development and sharing among stakeholders across Europe, and to strengthen the collective influence of its members in EU,

national and local policy making. ECOLISE draws on experiences from other parts of the world and, where possible, seeks to be a

source of inspiration and support for similar initiatives outside of Europe.

Eamon O’Hara has over fifteen years experience in managing EU projects and initiatives, including ten years of coordinating

communication activities at EU level. Much of Eamon’s work on communication has concerned EU environment and territorial

development policy.

Toby Johnson has worked in the field of social enterprise for 37 years, the last 20 years of which have been based in Brussels. He

helped found two workers’ co-operatives, one of which (Suma Wholefoods) has grown from its initial team of 7 to employ 150people today. He became Secretary of the UK work co-operative federation, where he was responsible for representation and also

organised a number of development and training projects. In 1994 he was seconded to the European Commission’s Social Economy

Unit, where he helped implement the Work Programme for Co-operatives, Mutual Societies, Associations and Foundations. Since

then has worked in two main fields: as the European Commission’s expert on social economy in the EQUAL programme (2002-08);

and since 2009 he has played a similar role as part of the technical assistance team supporting the transnational ESF Learning

Networks. He currently supports the Social Entrepreneurship Network (SEN).

Eveline Durieux has been responsible for the Documentation Unit at AEIDL since 1992, with primary responsibility for the

organisation, development and maintenance of specialist documentation systems.

As information analyst, she contributes to the preparation of good practices, interviews and case studies.

Within the LEADER II Observatory, she was a member of the experts groups "Environment" and contributed to the creation of the

pedagogical tool on the LEADER Approach.


No


Title Mr.

Gender Male

First Name Jean

Family Name Vanweydeveld

Department N/A

Position Managing Director


Telephone 1 +32 2 736 49 60


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Title Mr.

Gender Male

First Name Eamon

Family Name O’Hara

Department N/A

Position Project Manager


Telephone 1 +33 565 24 58 28



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PIC 946229181

Full legal name (National Language) Asociatia Romania in Tranzitie

Full legal name (Latin characters) Asociatia Romania in Tranzitie

Acronym

National ID (if applicable) 25518688


Address Str. Lotrioara 17. Bl.M31B, Apt. 21

Country Romania

Region

P.O. Box

Post Code

CEDEX

City Bucharest

Website www.intranzitie.org

Email

Telephone 1 +40722596482

Telephone 2

Fax

C.8.1. Profile







România în Tranzitie (from now on, RiT) is a NGO established in 2009, within the romanian Transition Town Movement with a clear

objective to serve as a instrument to the romanian grass-root emergent movement and to promote community oriented projectsfocused on the sustainable development. In this way, RiT is representing a Network of local Initiatives spreaded across Romania.


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Since march 2014 RiT is formally part of the global Transition Towns Network, (born in 2006, Totnes, UK, on the background of the

climate, social and economical crisis and looking actively to to help communities to build healthy, resilient, local responses to these

challenges, nowadays present in more than 34 countries) sharing it’s common culture and network empowerment.

RiT activities are related with macro-regional and international networking, local communities empowerment, social economy,education, communication, mass-media contact point and training.

Is the partner organisation a public body? No.

Is the partner organisation a non-profit? Yes, România în Tranzitie it is a non-profit organization, established under the romanian low.



Romania în Tranzitie

Romania în Tranzitie (from now on RiT) activities relevant for this project are: training, networking and communication.

RiT is working actively to establish a macro-regional network in the Danube Region that is connecting initiatives across the Danube

related with sustainable development. This will serve as a platform for exchanging know-how, support and training within themacro-region.

RiT shares the know-how of the network that represents and also takes deep advantage of the connection with the global

movement of Transition Towns.

RiT has experience in organizing training and managing projects with relevant impact on emergence of sustainable and resilient

communities.

One of the main projects driven by RiT is called “Seeds for Happiness” and aims the establishment of a cross-national network of

trainers that could give support to local communities and to transmit and create programs adjusted to the national reality.

Adina Maria Moise is a psychologist, studied change psychology and resistance to change, and works as a personal development

counselor. Qualified in Project management and Social Entrepreneurship, she has experience working in 2 rural development

projects funded with LEADER programme, about forming (training) and informing in rural areas, including professional training and

raising awareness about permaculture and traditional and ecological agriculture.

Member of RiT and manager of the fundraising and projects funding department, she is also the coordinator of Alba in Tranzitie, alocal transition initiative. She also initiated and leading Free Seeds romanian movement.

Claudian Dobos

Claudian Dobos has aprevious experience as entrepreneur within the portuguese company “we are one” where he worked as a

manager and branding and communication and image strategy expert.

Is co-founder of the entrepreneurs community “João Sem Medo”, established as a cooperative under the Portuguese Low.

Since 2010 is supporting actively the emergence of the romanian Transition Towns Movement. Is co-founder of “Romania In

Tranzitie”. Also representing Romania In Tranzitie in the Transition Towns Network meetings.

He is co-founder of the movement “Terra Livre” and of the community driven initiative “Aurora”, both established in Romania.

Is co-creator of the movement “Communities Convergence” and also co-manager of the “1st Danube Communities Convergence”

held in 2013 in Romania.

Claudian is a speaker on sustainable development, transition towns and community building.He is speaking four languages (English, Portuguese, Romanian and Spanish) and is a trainer and facilitator on communication

strategies, communities of practice, transition initiatives, permaculture, community building, personal development and deep

ecology.

Claudian has experience in Communication and Image Management within a Strategic Partnership Project (POSDRU 15/6.2/S/1)

funded by Sectorial Operational Program for Human Resources Development (POSDRU) - European Social Fund Romania.

Sabin Muresan

Has more than 10 years in supporting individuals and communities in conflict zones. He is a consultant in conflict resolution,

delivering training in non-violent communication and environment-connected self-development programs.

Worked in 3 continents, founder of the Living and Learning Center for Sustainability “La Gugu”.


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Title Mr.

Gender Male

First Name Mihai

Family Name ABAGIEF

Department Management

Position President


Telephone 1 +40722596482


Address Strada Lotrioarei

Country Romania

Region RO32 - Bucureşti - Ilfov

P.O. Box N/A

Post Code 510134

CEDEX N/A

City Bucuresti

Telephone 2 N/A


Title Miss.

Gender Female

First Name Adina Maria

Family Name Moise

Department Fundraising and Projects Funding

Position Manager


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D. Description of the Project

What is the rationale of this project, in terms of objectives pursued and needs to be addressed?

The SIRCle Project is designed to create an innovative, open source curriculum that integrates training materials and tools for activecitizenship with those for social and holistic entrepreneurship. It will address the needs of adult learners, in particular those living in

more disadvantaged areas, who wish to marry their care for the environment with the ability to establish a source of right livelihood.

Partners will each host two day-long dissemination events; and run two Pilot trainings of 5 days each for 14-16 participants. Core

materials will be translated from English into six other European languages, thus promoting the take-up of practical entrepreneurial

experiences in education, training and youth work and supporting the production and adoption of Open Educational Resources in

diverse European languages.

Innovation lies in the development of a ‘pattern language’ approach where the broad framework of the learning journey and

outcomes is outlined, and the detailed content is left to the local trainers to decide on. This approach is inspired by the structured

design process of architect Christopher Alexander. The ‘Core Story’ (or ‘syntax’) is the development and empowerment of change

makers and support of their social innovation projects. ‘Learning Patterns’ (the ‘vocabulary’) that support this journey are then

dropped in as needed.

The Project’s Objectives are to:

1. Create a body of Learning Patterns that foster action towards sustainable and resilient development on communal, national,

transnational and trans-sector levels

2. Modify and adapt the Transition to Resilience, Pioneers of Change, PACTE and other relevant curricula into the new SIRCle

curriculum

3. Train a body of 16-18 adult trainers, drawn from Austria, Belgium, Portugal, Romania, Spain and the UK to deliver the SIRCle

curriculum in their respective countries

4. Translate learning materials into the relevant languages, and disseminate these materials through running two Pilot Courses in

each country

5. Empower Change Makers in the 6 countries to establish projects geared towards building resilience and establishing sources ofright livelihood.

The project uses adult education to address one of the most pressing needs of our time, namely how to marry effective grassroots

responses to climate and social change with the capacity to make a sustainable living in a challenging economic climate. Learners

will acquire the skills needed to set up and run a social enterprise that contributes to the sustainability of their region. In this way

they will be supporting the development of a new economy based on the goods and services needed to deliver a sustainable and

resilient future.

Needs assessment:

The Flagship Report 2011 of the German Advisory Council on Global Change „World in Transition - A Social Contract for

Sustainability“ prominently acknowledges the role individuals can play as ‘pioneers of change’ “who gain trust and reputation at the

micro-level as leaders and role models, and who then work together at meso-level in manageable groups.”

Through the empowerment of social innovators who start organisations and eco-social ventures on a local level, we aim to create

sustainable effects for disadvantaged people in the population.

By ‘disadvantaged’, we mean groups of people who are more vulnerable than others, marginalized and thus unable to play a full and

active role in society. This may be because they are unemployed, suffer from drug abuse, have poor access to health care, housing,

and education, are in debt, ex-offenders, members of ethnic minorities or migrants. They may be people who suffer from racism and

other forms of discrimination, such as those linked to age or gender.

Recent statistical data from Eurostat show that the unemployment rates amongst young people are particularly high, and this is true

across all Member States. In 2013, unemployment rates for 15-24 year olds were, for example, 23.9% in France, 23.6% in Romania,

37.7% in Portugal and 55.7% in Spain. [Ref: Eurostat yth_empl_090]

The issue of early school leavers is also a pressing one, leaving many young adults in a precarious social and employment situation.


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In 2013 in Portugal, for example, 19.2% of young people were early leavers, while in Romania and Spain the figures were 17.3% and

23.5% respectively. (Ref: Early leavers from education and training by sex and labour status [edat_lfse_14] Last update: 10.04.14)

The target groups for this partnership are:

1. Trainers drawn from the Partner Organizations, who will become certified SIRCle Trainers and go on to run pilot SIRCle Courses in

their countries.

2. Disadvantaged adults and youth. We aim for ⅔ of each training to be made up of this group

3. Social entrepreneurs who are interested in developing social enterprises that will benefit the core target group (2 above). We aim

for⅓ of each training to be made up of this group.

In what way is the project innovative and/or complementary to other projects already carried out?

The SIRCle project will be grounded in innovative and holistic methodology by bringing materials and tools from ‘soft’ or people-

based educational processes, into the ‘hard’ or more business-based work of developing social enterprises. We will work with

developing imagination, creativity, innovation, awareness of self and others, presence, and intuition while balancing such ‘right-

brain’ activity with the more traditional ‘left-brain’ processes of planning, organising and structuring.

This approach will be combined with a Pattern-Language curriculum and a focus on Experiential Learning Pedagogy to create a

compelling, powerful and unique learning journey for change makers.

The project will use innovative and student centered pedagogical approaches, derived from work already completed in former EU

Learning Partnerships. These will include Partnership Education, Transformative, Experiential and Action Learning. These pedagogies

make the educational process directly relevant to participants’ lives, focussing on the solutions to real problems that people

experience as they set up projects. They educate the whole person: head, heart, hands and senses. The use of what are called

"multiple intelligences" as developed by Howard Gardner, has become a popular way of conveying a pedagogy that includes more

creative ways of learning, integrating hands-on experience, theory and research, time for reflection, pitching to experts, interactive

group processes and more. Different people learn in different ways and the SIRCle Trainings will be offered with this awareness.

This approach will open up a new spectrum of follow-up opportunities to adapt and to transfer educational tools from the social tothe economical dimension and vice-versa, thus building a resilient knowledge community. We will dive deeper into the field of

holistic business, focussing on the process of creating holistic value, instead of maximising shareholder return

The SIRcle Project builds on two Grundtvig Learning Partnerships:

1. In 2010-2012, the Findhorn Foundation and GEN-International were involved in a Grundtvig LP, during which the curriculum for

the Transition to Resilience Training - A Learning Adventure for Change Makers was developed. Since then GEN-International and

the FF have run the first pilot of this 2-year long training between 2012-14. The course has been a great success. The current

Strategic Partnership will provide the opportunity to transform the curriculum to address the need of change makers to marry their

care for the planet with entrepreneurship - an area which has been significantly neglected in sustainability trainings in Europe up to

now.

2. This Strategic Partnership will also draw on the outcomes and learnings of another, very successful Grundtvig LP, called “Hosting

transformation: Best practices on facilitating sustainable innovation and active citizenship”. From 2011 to 2013 Plenum/Pioneers of

Change has been part of a group of seven European Adult Education Institutions which exchanged their methodological

approaches and learnings regarding learning journeys for social innovators. The most important outcome of the partnership is an

umbrella organization called the International Partnership for Transformative Learning (IPTL). The IPTL organizes an annual

weeklong conference called the ChangeMaker Festival.

Another outcome from this two-year partnership was the publication of a book called "Hosting Transformation: Stories from the

Edge of Changemaking." This 95-page full-color book, printed using ecologically responsible methods, shares the personal trials and

triumphs of individuals in the partnership, as well as methods and practices from the organizations and further insights from the two

years of working together. 1000 copies of the book were printed and distributed and it is also available for free electronically at

www.hostingtransformation.eu/book. The SIRCle Project will bring this foundational work to a new level by applying the learnings

and best practices to a new joint curriculum.

The SIRCle project is also complementary to the LEONARDO project, PACTES (www.im-pactes.eu), that is being carried out this year,


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