Miklós Tóth

European Capital of Culture programs in Hungary 2022-23

Thanks to Veszprém-Balaton 2023 European Capital of Culture programme our Assotiation the Mindenegyüttmegy Egyesület (All-goes-together Association) could organise a dozen of programs in 2022 in the region of lake Balaton and Bakony. In the center of the program series is the fruit and the eco conscious living in the countryside. The goals of the occasions are:

  • supporting the organic eco-conscious and sustainable lifestyle
  • meeting people with similar value system and strengthen them to create better organized communities and deeper cooperation.

Our Assotiation’s mission is to help people in the current social- economic- moral- and environmental crises to find effective solutions and to make available the knowledge and best practices of self-sufficient organic lifestyle. 

These programs are about natural alternative beekeeping, seed capture and exchange, food forest theoratical and practical training, organic grape farming, survey of wild and biodiversity, integral herbalism, natural building, fruit harvest celebration in Autum and handycraft.

In 2023 we are going to continue our work and organise local thematic events about organic farming, natural architecture and technology in the closest villages.

Volunteering in Hungarian communities, APPLY NOW!

We are inviting you to join for half a year as an ESC volunteer in one of the two Hungarian eco-communities. 

If you want to live close to nature, try a small garden, and learn about community life, permaculture and natural building methods then volunteering in an eco-community is a good way to experience this lifestyle and meet similar people.

Nyim

Nyim Eco Community is settled in a small village South from Lake Balaton. The community gives place to ecological art projects; provides workshops in community-building methods, ecological lifestyle, eco-architecture; and owns 26 hectares of land where it does reforestation and landscape regeneration projects. They have beautiful gardens at each household, and conserve fruit and vegetables through juice making, and fermenting. The volunteers have their rooms in the Community House near the village center.

available from May to November

apply for ECO COMMUNITY NYIM >>

Hideghegy

Hideghegy (Cold Mountain) community is an offgrid community North from Lake Balaton, near Pécsely. They are a community of young green entrepreneurs, and their families. who changed urban life to a life that fosters a sustainability through organic food production, eco-architecture, dialogue between the rural and the urban, a festival and community spaces.

available from May to October

apply for ECO COMMUNITY HIDEGHEGY >>

Southeast Europe Ecovillage Network meeting ONLINE

In the quest for identifying sustainable solutions to climate change, overconsumption and environmental degradation, and in the era of the UN Sustainable Development Goals, networking in Europe and its sub-regions is of the utmost importance… While ecovillage culture and transiton to postcarbon society are well represented both in Western, Central, North and North East Europe, there are only a few initiatives connected to the movement in the South East of Europe…

On Friday, the 15th of April 2022, a Slovenian-Croatian-Hungarian initiative connecting countries with common history, contemporary challenges and their specific needs, will be setting the frame for a larger network (SEEEN), aiming to include the wider South-east European region. This regional meeting is intended to bring our dreams and practices together, helping each other to grow in strength, values and capacity. Our wish is to include as many of the initiatives as possible into the already co-created webpage in service to us all, and set off a yearly gathering practice… of celebration!

Join us at this blended (live and online) meeting devoted to presentations and sharing information about Y/OUR eco initiatives / projects / communities / dreams! Art and games can be used for the presentations 🙂 but please stay timely within 10 minutes.Please, indicate your name, contact, and dream / project / initiative in THIS REGISTRATION FORM and you will, by your preference, be sent the address of our gathering in Križevci (Croatia) or the link for the Zoom online meeting. Come as you are and talk to the region, or just sneak in and listen to others! https://forms.gle/TAYLqZj1UUUDnhxp7 And, of course, inform as many participants as you think might be interested… 🙂Draft of the 15th of April 2022 agenda with presentations and discussions about:
– Global Ecovillage Network (GEN) and GEN Europe
– SEEEN Project and partner organisations
– SEEEN web page
– Online participants: HERE CAN BE YOUR PRESENTATION 🙂
– Cultural eveningWe are very welcoming all our regional languages 🙂 but the official language of this international gathering will be English, so should be all the presentations. 

Croatian Permaculture

Founded in 1995 by permaculture pioneers in the country, Croatian Permaculture is a non-profit association dedicated to urban and rural community development, training permaculture practitioners and network weaving among permaculture, ecovillage and transition practitioners within Croatia, European Union and South East Europe. Members of the association actively contribute to collaborations on local, trans-local, regional, continental and planetary levels of scale by supporting community-led initiatives and contributing to intentional networks that nurture regenerative culture and deep adaptation. 

Sunny Hill (Slovenia)

Sunny Hill acts as a networking organisation for community-oriented initiatives and projects in Slovenia. We showcase the sustainable lifestyle and inspire others. We organise courses and experiential programs on environmental awareness, green economy, group processes and personal development. Our focus is on practical solutions and the ”learning by doing” approach.

We partner in various Erasmus+ projects for youth and in strategic partnerships in the field of adult education. Sunny Hill is also an active member of European networks GEN Europe and ECOLISE.

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Nyim Eco Community (Hungary)

Nyim Eco Community was formally established in 2010, through the union of people who are committed to the importance of the process of fulfillment on both a community-based and individual level. The composition of participants has dynamically changed since the onset and continues to change, however we have been continuously striving to maintain the mentality of the initiative at the focus of our attention. 

The aim of our organization, Felkelő Nap Association is to support physical, mental and spiritual wellbeing of people, and through the renewal of individuals, assist the recovery of societal and ecological systems. We promote community living based on ecological values. We protect the values of life and nature and preserve traditions of Hungarian culture, folk art and agriculture. We would like to contribute to the improvement of the underdeveloped rural areas and settlements mainly focus on Nyim and the region of Siófok, however, our educational activities are organised nationwide. We want to raise awareness on ecological challenges and foster the change of individual and community approaches with educational programs, researches, and cross-community initiatives. We have worked on this field for 10 years now and realise mainly agroecology, self-knowledge improvement, community building and various educational projects. Members of our Association live in Nyim and working toward these goals. 

Felkelő Nap is also an interface of national, and european networking, and partnerships. We developed a lot of European connections through creating together the South Eastern European Ecovillage Network, and Western European Ecovillage Network (WEEN- France, Belgium, Netherlands, Germany) and throught being involved in CLIPS(Community Incubator Program) projects.