f. European Academy

We presented 3 concrete proposals:

1) To actively support the Chaordic Permaculture Institute project so that we together create a truly international and democratic, non-centralizing structure that supports and better interconnects the permaculture network.

2) To develop together, at European level, an improved PC Certificate Curriculum that reflects the new times, keeps staying as a referent for the most advanced in sustainability education in existence & can be seriously considered an internationally agreed standard.

3) To coordinate efforts also around the PC Diploma and re-design the diploma work-net proposals in light of the experiences and observations to date.

2Oct14 - after 2 years of trying to engage* with the European Teachers Partnership, now that the European funding has been used up, they're finally coming around to trying to design a way to continue to work using online tools.

* (which insisted on physical meetings in places with bad internet access - so those of us who asked to be included virtually, couldn't. I passed the invitation around but none of us in the Academy wanted to go to - I insisted quite a bit but didn't manage to get any of our students interested to go even with all travel & accomodation costs payed for)

23 feb11 - In many ways this was a complete waste of time, but the lack of response, just a few months later, inspired us to re-frame the whole effort in the direction of Integral Permaculture (as we realised most of our difficulties and frustrations are probably "mean-green" based) and the PDC+++, a year-long journey which is (amongst other things! brilliant multi-functioning...) also the long conversation about curriculum development with permaculture teachers at international level that we were hoping to engage in via these (fairly useless, it seems) international physical conferences.

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