Cities as Places of Hope w/ Sanna Vesikansa
Context Part of the ‘Cities as Places of Hope’ series; a project launched in 2019 focusing on progressive city networks that are a key factor in the development of a...
130 events found.
Social Dividends as a Form of Basic Income
About the Event: The COVID-19 pandemic has more than ever provoked the debate around Universal Basic Income as a potential policy solution to a host of challenges. Yet just as...
Just Transition – The Good Ancestor
About the event The only way to move from an extractive economy to a regenerative one, is through a just transition. This means making sure that we leave nobody behind....
Green Academy: Supporting sustainable agriculture for a healthier landscape
About the event How do we imagine the future of our agriculture? Can local and regional governments ensure that their land is cultivated in harmony with nature and the needs...
Call for a Communications Intern
The Green European Foundation (GEF) is seeking an intern who will support GEF’s communications work, with a major focus on project dissemination. The successful candidate will work with the GEF...
Call for participants – Feminist Climate Ambassadors
About Twenty ambassadors from across Europe will be appointed to participate in the six-month training program free of charge. The training starts at the end of March and has monthly...
Governance Strategies for Cooling Cities: Cases of Athens and Istanbul
About This research focuses specifically on improving the understanding of the capabilities and needs that cities have for an effective adaptation to heatwaves, which are expected to become more frequent...
Reforestation for productive purposes: pasture, beehiving & recreation in Greece
About the Event: This first online event aims to map the different aspects and initiatives on reforestation with trees for productive purposes, namely pasture, beehiving and recreation in Greece. Target...
Call for Host Organisation: Young Greens Summer Festival
Be Brave Summer Festival It will soon be almost two years since Young Greens have gathered in-real-life internationally. In August 2021 we plan to invite 300 Young Greens and representatives...
Green Post-Corona Talk with Petra de Sutter and Sonia Zdorovtzoff
The ongoing Covid-19 pandemic is having a grip on societies worldwide and will impact our lives long after the crisis is overcome. It is clear that we cannot continue with...
Green Academy: Sustainable Urban Mobility / Public Transport during Covid-19
About the event How is the Covid-19 pandemic changing our perspective of urban mobility? Can we use it as an opportunity to push for greater sustainability? What is the relation...
Women in care work during the pandemic
OnlineAbout the Event The Covid crisis has highlighted that an overwhelming majority of care workers are women. This makes them essential, and during the pandemic they have been at the...
Metals in the Energy and Digital Transition: The EU Facing an Uncertain Scenario
- Información en español, más abajo. There is no doubt that the climate crisis makes the energy transition to renewable sources indispensable. The 2015 Paris Agreement was a historic...
Renewable Energy and Gender Equality
About the Event: This meeting will welcome activists, energy NGO representatives, and other interested participants to explore renewable energy, energy transition, and its relation to gender equality. We will focus...
Desertification, erosion and productive reforestation
About the Event: This event will focus on rural areas of the EU, the European Green Deal in the frame of the19th session of the Committee for the Review of...
Goodbye feminism? How the pandemic is retraditionalising gender roles
About this event Since March 2020, social life has somehow resembled a "Pandemian Rhapsody": "caught in a landside, no escape from reality", and, just like Freddy Mercury in his song,...
Understanding growth in different ways – the implications of transcending the growth paradigm in Europe
About this event For the launch of the Ten thoughts on Growth report, written by the economist and environmental researcher Mikael Malmaeus and published by GEF and Cogito, we will be...
We are what we Eat: For Healthy and Sustainable Food
About the Event: Our first Green-Red Dialogue of 2021 will tackle the sustainable production and consumption of food, from a multi-disciplinary approach. Because everything is fundamentally connected, from the mistreatment...
Feminist Climate Ambassadors – Training 1
About the Event: Our aim is to build bridges across Europe for feminist climate change advocates and activists. This training will equip selected Feminist Climate Ambassadors with the tools needed...
Call for Prep team: Be Brave Summer Festival
About the Event Be Brave Summer Festival The 6-day long, community-managed, outdoor summer festival will potentially bring together 300 Young Greens and representatives of youth green movements to look back...
Climate, Economics, and Gender
OnlineAbout the Event Women and minorities are more likely to be affected by the impacts of climate change and environmental crises, but are also key to bringing about change in...
Climate Change, EU Recovery and Resilience Fund and Productive Reforestations
About the Event This third concluding online event aims to map the different aspects and initiatives on productive reforestation, agro-climatic zoning and multi-functional landscapes in Greece. Target groups are government...
Call for tenders: Social Secretariat
About GEF The Green European Foundation (GEF) is a European level political foundation funded by the European Parliament. It is linked to, but independent of, other European Green actors such...
Call for Author: Youth Chapter for the Just Transition Book
About the Event The chapter will be published in the Book on Just Transition produced as part of the multiannual and multipartner project carried out by the Green European Foundation,...
Call for participants: Online Course ‘Cities for all: Why?’
About this course The upcoming online course: “Cities for all: Inclusive urban planning and decision making in Eastern European cities” will take place on the Green European Foundation's online learning...
Metals in the Energy and Digital Transition: Limits and Impacts
- para leer la descripción en ESP, vean más abajo - There is no doubt that the climate crisis makes the energy transition to renewable sources indispensable. The 2015...
Women for Climate – A Just Transition
OnlineAbout the Event What is a just transition of coal regions from the feminist perspective? What does transition look like in Poland and in other European countries? Do the current...
Dark shades of green: The political struggle for the narrative of the young environmental movements in the Western Balkans
About this event The right-wing has for a long time been associated with climate denial and justifications of industrial pollution. However, this rhetoric seems to be changing, and environmental issues...
European Green Activist Training Week 2021
OnlineAbout the Event During the four-day event, the green-minded youth will have the chance to explore various topics such as climate justice and lobbying in Brussels by engaging with professionals,...
Feminist Climate Ambassadors – Future Frequency
About the Event: Our aim is to build bridges across Europe for feminist climate change advocates and activists. This training will equip selected Feminist Climate Ambassadors with the tools needed...
Green Feminist Talk with Terry Reintke
About the Event: Over the past several months in Turkey, the feminist agenda has mostly been shaped by the discussions over the withdrawal from the Istanbul Convention. We are going...
Call for Prep-Team: Training ‘’Cities for All-How?’
Objectives of the “Cities for all – How?” are: To develop the participants’ skills of creative and efficient campaigning for spreading the message to the wider public; Create a space...
Sustainable Batteries
OnlineAbout the Event: During the event we will reflect on: Do we have enough raw materials in Europe to produce the required amount of batteries? Can we mine the necessary...
Just Transition and Gender Equality
About the Event: This meeting will welcome activists, NGO representatives, and other interested participants to explore the just transition and its relation to gender equality. We will focus on developing...
Which metals for a fair transition?
About the Event Which metals for a fair transition? During May and June, we will organise two webinars revolving around this topic. While the first debate will focus on the...
Inside Climate Protection- FREDA Forum Talk
Context Climate protection is a hot topic - but with our webinar, we want to approach it with a long-term outlook, by exploring how climate protection could be a driving...
Recovering sustainably from the pandemic
The European Green Deal – Thinking Locally The impact of the Covid 19 pandemic on Europe's economy, health systems and democracy is enormous. In terms of European policy it...
Mining for metals – can it be fair?
About the Event: The energy transition has been placed at the top of the European political agenda, with the digital transition closely following suit. But to successfully implement these two...
Agroforestry & Ancient Forest protection
About the Event: Agroforestry and small scale traditional farming systems as well as multi- functional forest landscapes survived in many rural areas in Europe (as in mountains and islands) that...
Transformation Towards Energy Democracy
About the Event: With this event, we will discuss the need for a more democratic and inclusive society by addressing the state of democracy in the EU and the candidate...
Feminist Climate Ambassadors – Bottom-Up Activism
About the Event: Our aim is to build bridges across Europe for feminist climate change advocates and activists. This training will equip selected Feminist Climate Ambassadors with the tools needed...
Green jobs and airport expansion campaigns
About this event Airports seeking expansion across Europe are subject to growing scrutiny and organised opposition in light of stricter climate targets. Supporters push back that they are engines of...
Just Transition in Spain and Next Generation funds- Session 1
About the Event: Transición Verde is working in Spain within the framework of the Prosoxi Alliance, an Observatory for a socially fair ecological transition, that aims to participate, as civil...
Open call: Be Brave Decentralised Summer Camps
About the Event: This call is an invitation for FYEG Member Organisations (MOs) to submit applications to hold Decentralised Summer Camp on democracy and youth participation during August to October 2021. ...
The European Green Deal and The Need for Metals
About the Event: This webinar is for you if you are interested in the future of Europe’s metals industry and its legal/social/environmental implications. Context: The energy transition has been placed at the...
Which metals for a fair transition? 2/2
About the Event Which metals for a fair transition? During the months of May and June we will organise 2 webinars on this topic. While the first debate will focus...
Call for participants: Training ‘Cities for all-How?’
About the Event The training will take place between the 25th and 31st of July in Serbia. Participants will arrive on the 24th of July and depart on the 1st of...
Mining our way into a climate-neutral future – Metals & climate justice
About the event: This webinar is for you if you are interested in learning more about the international and intersectional approach to climate justice. Context: The wind turbines, solar panels...
Call for a GEJ intern
About us The Green European Foundation (GEF) is a European-level political foundation funded by the European Parliament. GEF is affiliated to and independent from the European Green Party and green...
Food Policy in Barcelona Metropolitan Area
About the event 2021 marks Barcelona’s year as the World Sustainable Food Capital. A catalyst for a food transition towards sustainability that strengthens local economies and improves the health of both...
Metals for a green and digital Europe
About the event: This online roundtable is invitation-only. You can still contribute to this project by commenting on the online draft text: http://www.metalsforeurope.eu Context: While the energy from the sun...
Feminist Climate Ambassadors – Fourth Training
About the Event: Our aim is to build bridges across Europe for feminist climate change advocates and activists. This training will equip selected Feminist Climate Ambassadors with the tools needed...
Call for Applications: Finances and Office Manager
About us The Green European Foundation (GEF) is a European-level political foundation funded by the European Parliament. GEF is affiliated to and independent from the European Green Party and Green...
European Green Activist Training – Greece
About EGAT GREECE EGAT Greece involves a series of training meetings in the context of the transnational European Green Activist Training programme. During EGAT Greece, 20 participants aged 16-25 will...
Call for Applications: Strategy Manager
About us The Green European Foundation (GEF) is a European-level political foundation funded by the European Parliament. GEF is affiliated to and independent from the European Green Party and Green...
Call for tenders: Shipping services
Key features 1. Rates The offer needs to include an overview of rates for all European countries for the following two types of boxes as pricing examples: Type 1: 5 kg box with our own packaging Type 2: 14kg box with our own packaging ...
The Heat Waves Campaign
About the event: Heatwaves are expected to increase in the coming years, posing a threat to people and ecosystems. This campaign will focus on providing city actors with an insight...
Metals for a Green and Digital Europe (Poland)
Context The energy transition and the development of renewable energy sources are not the only sustainable transformations that will require large amounts of metals. The electrification of transport, the digitalisation...
Food Sovereignty, Climate Action & Local Resilience
About the Event: This webinar aims to bring together food sovereignty advocates, progressive farmers, environmentalists, and cooperative and local economy activists, as well as interested members of the general public for a conversation on regional...
Reforestation priorities for climate change mitigation: How the Recovery and Resilience Fund could be much more than “business as usual”?
About the Event: In order to tackle climate change and the need to rapidly absorb CO2 emissions, targeting carbon neutrality in 2050 (or even before), the EU set the ambitious goal of planting...
Will The European Green Deal And EU Recovery Fund Benefit Women?
About the Event: Gender mainstreaming and gender budgeting have become popular concepts in recent years, and the Von der Leyen Commission has highlighted gender equality time and time again as...
Transforming into a sustainable city: the green adventure of Ghent
About the event: In the transformation into a socio-ecological society, frontrunner cities have become places of hope for implementing future-oriented policies and reconnecting with citizens. Moving beyond the experiment, they are implementing transitions such as the...
REACHING ZERO CARBON TRANSPORT: WHAT WILL IT TAKE?
About the Event: The UK and EU are planning investments in transport infrastructure – airports, seaports, new roads and railways – which will lock in future carbon emissions and make their ‘net...
Ecotransformation of Cities Summer School
About the Event: Today, more than 70% of people in the Czech Republic live in cities. For most of us, the city has become a major environment. The appearance of...
Cities for all – How?
Objectives: Exploring new tools and strategies for lobbying the demands of women and young LGBT+ individuals to different stakeholders. Equipping participants with appropriate skills to work with local communities and...
Climate Feminist Summer School
About the Event Women and minorities are more likely to be affected by the impacts of climate change and environmental crises, but are also key to bringing about change in their communities. Countries...
Terrestrial Forum: Horizons of Change- Summer School
About the event: Sociologists define social change as changes in human interactions and relationships that transform cultural and social institutions. Well known examples of such change have resulted from social...
Be Brave Decentralised Summer Camps
About the Event: The decentralised activities will respond to the following objectives: Explore the struggles with active participation for youth-led organisations, movements and informal groups in different parts of Europe;...
Gender Equality and Climate Crisis
About the Event This meeting will welcome activists, NGO representatives, and other interested participants to explore the climate crisis and its relation to gender equality. We experience the consequences of the climate crisis in...
EGAT Czech Republic Akumulátor (“The Accumulator”)
About the event You will participate in a three-weekend training session taking place in different corners of the Czech Republic and in an international study tour to Brussels. The program...
GEF at the Green Days: On the Way to COP26
About the Event: The past year has taught us painful but vital lessons about our relation to nature, the importance of often underfunded public services, and other topics which the Greens have been highlighting for...
Reforming the Finnish Mining Law
As part of the Green European Foundation’s Metals for a green and digital Europe transnational project, we will look at how the initiative for reforming the Finnish Mining Act started...
Call for entries “Become an influencer for ecological change!”
Are you part of the solution to the global environmental crisis? Are you committed to the environment? Are you tired of too little being done about the climate crisis? Do...
Feminist Climate Ambassadors – Safety and Trust
About the event We aim to build bridges across Europe for feminist climate change advocates and activists. This training will equip selected Feminist Climate Ambassadors with the tools needed to...
EGAT-Poland
About the event The European Green Activist Training (EGAT) is an international training program for young people (16-26 years old) culminating with a study visit to the European Parliament. The...
EGAT Hungary
About the event Participants will take part in a 3-day training from October 8th-10th, 2021. The following session will be in January 2022 (a Saturday in Budapest) and finally, a...
EGAT-Catalonia
About the event We offer you to participate in a training program for young European green activists. You will learn how European institutions work and how things can be changed...
EGAT – Croatia
About the Project The aim of the EGATV is to familiarise participants with green topics (climate change, biodiversity and environmental protection, human rights and democracy, feminism, active citizenship), green policies...
Albanian Green Academy
About the event The goal of the Green Academy is to equip young participants with the necessary knowledge and expertise in environmental topics to develop their contributing skills in the...
Call for tenders: Accessibility Audit [deadline extended]
About GEF The Green European Foundation (GEF) is a European-level political foundation funded by the European Parliament. GEF is affiliated to but independent from the European Green Party and Green movement in...
Call for tenders: Communications audit [deadline extended]
About GEF The Green European Foundation (GEF) is a European-level political foundation funded by the European Parliament. GEF is affiliated to but independent from the European Green Party and Green movement in Europe....
Albanian Green Academy
About the event The goal of the Green Academy is to equip young participants with the necessary knowledge and expertise in environmental topics to develop their contributing skills in the...
Call for Applications: Political Director
About us The Green European Foundation (GEF) is a European level political foundation funded by the European Parliament. GEF is affiliated to the European Green Party and active in political...
EGAT-Hungary
About the event Participants will take part in a 3-day training from October 8th-10th, 2021. The following session will be in January 2022 (a Saturday in Budapest) and finally, a...
EGAT-Finalnd
About the event If you are eager to learn about green politics and change-making, this course is for you! Prior experience or membership of the Young Greens is not needed....
Budapest Forum – Building Sustainable Democracies
The past decade witnessed the emergence of several high-profile international events in the CEE region. The upcoming Budapest Forum is similar in aspiration to its regional counterparts, with its first...
Towards a fair and sustainable food system- Protecting the soil: the great challenge for agriculture
About the event: The food industry is one of the main factors behind biodiversity loss and the worsening of global inequalities. We aim to contribute to a better understanding of...
GEF-MitOst Festival Networking Event I
About the event In collaboration with the MitOst Festival, the Green European Foundation is organising a networking event for international sustainability nonprofits based in Brussels. This hybrid event will be an exciting opportunity to raise awareness about some of GEF’s sustainability projects and best-practices on...
GEF-MitOst Festival Networking Event II
About the event In collaboration with the MitOst Festival, the Green European Foundation is organising a networking event for international sustainability nonprofits based in Brussels. This hybrid event will be an exciting opportunity to raise awareness about some of GEF’s sustainability projects and best-practices on...
Feminist Climate Ambassadors – Countdown to COP26
About the event We aim to build bridges across Europe for feminist climate change advocates and activists. This training will equip selected Feminist Climate Ambassadors with the tools needed to...
Towards a fair and sustainable food system: The Water Challenge
About the event: The food industry is one of the main factors behind biodiversity loss and the worsening of global inequalities. We aim to contribute to a better understanding of...
International Development Finance and the Climate Emergency
About the event This webinar is part of the project Climate Emergency Economy. It is organised by GEF with the support of Green House Think Tank, Wetenschappelijk Bureau GroenLinks, Green...
Germany after Merkel – Consequences for Southern Europe
About the Event: Germany will be heading to the polls on September 26th to elect a new government. Citizens across Europe will follow the results with anticipation – also in...
Call for Participants: Green Horizons Academy
About the Call The Green European Foundation and the Organisation for Political Ecology POLEKOL are launching a call for participants for the first Green Horizons Academy, under the title “The Good Story.” We...
A Basic Income for Europe
About the event “The Unconditional Basic Income is a periodic cash transfer granted to all members of a political community, without work requirement nor means-testing, and high enough to ensure...
Towards a fair and sustainable food system: The Hidden Cost of Cheap Food
About the event: The food industry is one of the main factors behind biodiversity loss and the worsening of global inequalities. We aim to contribute to a better understanding of...
Just Transition for All?
About the event This three-day seminar will serve as a place to discuss opportunities and limits of just transition and explore its transformative potential. During the seminar, we will: provide...
Pula: Seasonal Tourism
Programme 13 October 16:00 – 17:00 Arrivals to Pula 17:00 – 18:30 Short sight-seeing tour of Pula 19:30 – 21:00 Dinner with hotel director 14 October 08:00 – 09:00 Breakfast...
Towards a fair and sustainable food system: Food Sovereignty vs. Corporate Control
About the event: The food industry is one of the main factors behind biodiversity loss and the worsening of global inequalities. We aim to contribute to a better understanding of...
Green Horizons Academy: The Good Story
About the Event The Green Horizons Academy is an educational programme that aims to expand the ideas surrounding the green movement towards the alternative liveable future across Europe. Addressing the...
The Green Hydrogen Transition
About the Event Hydrogen produced from renewable electricity will play a crucial role in the transition to a climate-neutral Europe, but its adoption raises several issues. These stem from the...
Practicing Food Sovereignty in the Climate Emergency
About the Event GEF, with the support of Green Foundation Ireland and Cultivate, has built on our 2020 publication ‘A Question of SCALE’ and the findings of a webinar held...
UBI & the COVID-19 pandemic
About the event “The Unconditional Basic Income is a periodic cash transfer granted to all members of a political community, without work requirement nor means-testing, and high enough to ensure...
Towards a fair and sustainable food system: The Transformative Potential of Agroecology
About the event: The food industry is one of the main factors behind biodiversity loss and the worsening of global inequalities. We aim to contribute to a better understanding of...
Radical Humanism and Ecological Conversion: Ivan Illich and Alexander Langer
About the Event Is Europe ready for the ecological conversion that scientific evidence stresses on us? Ivan Illich and Alexander Langer are influential interpreters of the economic critique of consumer...
Ecopolis: Dare to Care
Kaaitheatre Square Sainctelette 20, Brussels, BelgiumAbout the Event The global Covid-19 crisis brought healthcare into the spotlight. But care extends beyond the strictly medical: it includes everything we do to preserve and restore the world....
Ecofeminist Round Table
Kaaitheatre Square Sainctelette 20, Brussels, BelgiumAbout the Event: This discussion will be a curated safe space for participants to engage in a long-form dialogue and open-ended conversation based on the booklet: ‘Voor wie willen we...
How do we build Community Wealth?
Context A new model of economic development, called Community Wealth Building (CWB), is emerging in cities and communities all over Europe. These cities are challenging the dominant economic system that...
Call for applicants: Assistant to Director-Internship
Are you a curious individual with a feel for organisational work? Do you seek hand-on experience that can help build up your profile in a European organisation? Do you have...
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Green Hub events at COP26
The Renfield Centre 260 Bath Street, Glasgow, United KingdomContext The 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference or COP26 will take place in Glasgow, Scotland, from the 31st October to 12th November 2021. To provide support for Green actors...
Pilot projects on UBI
About the event “The Unconditional Basic Income is a periodic cash transfer granted to all members of a political community, without work requirement nor means-testing, and high enough to ensure...
Climate Emergency Economy at the Green Hub
About the Event Alongside several partners, GEF has been investigating the requirements of a so-called Climate Emergency Economy. We’ve focused on the questions and sectors that pose a particular challenges...
Gender Equality and Nature Struggles
About the event During this webinar, we will put the focus on nature and gender equality. Join us to develop your network and discuss gender in conservation and climate policy....
Combating online hate speech- Call for participants
About the training The live virtual training is complimentary to the Combating Online Hate Speech, FR, ES, LUX, DE, AT course which offers information on hate speech, focusing on case...
Feminists in the Climate Movement at the Green Hub
About the Event Women and minorities are more likely to be affected by the consequences of climate change but are also the key people who can bring about change in...
Rust: National Park Tourism
Programme 12 November 17:00 – 19:00 Arrivals 19:00 – 21:00 Traditional tavern dinner with regional cuisine 13 November 10:30 – 12:00 Ferry across Neusiedlersee 12:00 – 13:30 Lunch meeting with...
Disaster and risk management in an age of Climate and Ecological Crisis
Context This event is Part of the ‘Cities as Places of Hope’ series; a project launched in 2019 focusing on progressive city networks that are a key factor in the...
Turning Over a New Leaf (Zagreb)
About the event In the spring of 2021, Zagreb became a city of hope and elected a new green government. But this fresh energy is facing many old challenges (and...
Go Greenr!
About the campaign Do you know any green trainers, consultants, or facilitators? Then join our campaign and encourage them to sign into our platform by nominating them on our social media. If...
Towards Sustainable Agriculture and Cleaner Energy in the NRRP
About the Event The Green European Foundation, with the support of BlueLink, has been closely following the drafting and submission process of Bulgaria’s National Recovery and Resilience Plan, with an...
A Green New Deal for Leeds City Region
About the event GEF, with the support of GreenHouse ThinkTank is implementing a presentation of the report on Green New Deal for the Leeds City Region, in order to explore...
Dare to Care: Ecofeminism as Inspiration
About the Event The global Covid crisis brought healthcare into the spotlight. Care, however, extends beyond the strictly medical in that it includes everything we do to preserve and restore the...
Through Value to Wealth: Sustainable Tourism in Serbia
About the Event Although tourism is well known for being an industry that stimulates the economy and the creation of new jobs, experience shows that its traditional way of development...
Green Central-Eastern Network
About the event The Green European Foundation is organising an event tailored to those who have the long-term goal to ignite political change in their countries and advance the green movement...
Energy to the citizens
About the Event With this session, we aim to tackle the need for a more democratic and inclusive society. To do so, we will examine the state of democracy in...
Greener Local Communities
About the event During this session, we will discuss the wave of local green transformations across many cities in Europe that are setting the path towards a different urban living...
Women* in Power
About the Event: This international conference brings together speakers from all over Turkey and Europe to highlight commonalities and explore the solidarity and struggles of gender studies in green policy....
Green Recovery: Reflecting on the political landscape and experience from neighbouring countries
One66, Celovška cesta 166, 1000 Ljubljana , SloveniaAbout the Event This workshop brings together speakers from Slovenia, Croatia and Austria to share experiences on environmental struggles and green policy building in post – Corona era. The workshop...
Citizen Assemblies in Belgium (Brussels)
About the Event In the event, speakers from the different language communities of Belgium share their experiences of citizen assemblies as a democratic and participative form of decision making....
Next Generation – A Feminist Perspective
About the Event This Green Red Dialogue confronts the European Union’s Next Generation EU fund, a fund created to support member states in their economic and social recovery and resilience...
