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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.