Green Academy: Stay with the Trouble! (Komiža)
Join GEF’s Green Talks at this year’s Green Academy on the island of Vis, where we will explore how to streamline ideas for a European wellbeing economy, building democratic resilience and innovation, and rethinking the pressures of time amid climate and biodiversity crises.
About the event:
The Green Academy is a discussion and dialogue platform, established in 2010 as a space for advanced learning in political ecology. The 9th edition of Green Academy is entitled ”Stay with the Trouble,” and will feature a varied programme of keynotes, panels, workshops, and social activities. As part of the programme, GEF is hosting a series of Green Talks spotlighting our latest work on the wellbeing economy, adaptation, and building a resilient Europe beyond growth.
Project background:
If trends continue, the summer of 2024 is likely to be the hottest yet, with the daily reality of the climate crisis coming into even sharper focus for ever more citizens. Yet unlike five years ago, climate and biodiversity do not dominate the political headlines or European voter priorities, whether due to disillusionment, disinformation, or competing concerns like cost-of-living and (in)security.
More than ever, it is important to demonstrate how social and ecological justice go hand in hand, and to foster the bottom-up democracy to make that happen. Concepts and ideas like post-growth, the commons, and citizen assemblies may hold some of the answers, but need the right narratives and policy grounding to truly pierce the mainstream European debate. GEF has supported this endeavour for a long time, including as a partner of the 2023 Beyond Growth Conference in the European Parliament and the International Degrowth Conference that took place in Zagreb that same year.
As we get ready to enter a new EU cycle, with a reshuffled parliament and Commission, it is crucial to keep the momentum going and ensure that wellbeing and a prosperous Europe beyond growth remain on the agenda. The Green Academy provides a constructive yet convivial setting in which to learn, exchange and expand on this challenge, in line with GEF’s role as a hub for political education and laboratory for new ideas.
Programme and Speakers:
GEF’s Green Talks will take place every day from 12:00 – 13:30. August 24th and August 28th are arrival and departure days.
25/08: Knowledge Community on the European Wellbeing Economy
26/08: Post-Growth and Democracy – Why Values are Key
27/08: Green European Journal: Climate Adaptation and Time
Further info and speakers to be announced.
Practicalities:
Date and Time: 24-28 August
Location: Hotel Biševo – Komiža, Croatia
Language: English
This is an invitation-only event with limited capacity. For more information please contact sien.hasker@gef.eu and/or lana@ipe.hr.
This event is co-organised by the Green European Foundation with the support of the Institute for Political Ecology and with the financial support of the European Parliament to the Green European Foundation. The European Parliament is not responsible for the content of this event.