What is ecoversities?
ecoversities: learners and communities reclaiming diverse knowledges, relationships and imaginations to design new approaches to higher education.
400+ projects, across 40 countries reimagining higher education
600 (un)learners,
and increasing!
In +70 countries
Co-learnings
At Ecoversities, we are not building an institution—we are weaving a constellation: a living, breathing movement that is always becoming. Our co-learnings are not fixed rules or checkboxes. They are invitations. Resonances. Provocations.
They are seeds we plant together—nurturing ways of learning and being that challenge dominant, colonial, and patriarchal paradigms of education.
Emergence
We resist the urge to control outcomes. Learning is alive — unfolding in its own time, shaped by the relationships and conditions around it. We welcome what arises, even when it’s messy, uncertain, or incomplete. As Bayo Akomolafe reminds us, “The cracks are also openings.”
We walk with these intentions — not as fixed truths, but as shared agreements in motion emerged and continually emerging from our lived experiences. They invite us to slow down, to unlearn, to remember who, why, and where we are.
Inquiry in Solidarity
We learn with others, not about them. This is not research—it’s relation. It’s walking together, asking questions that matter, holding complexity without rushing toward answers. Like the Zapatistas says: “Walking we ask” (caminando preguntamos).
Experiential Learning
We trust what the body knows. Learning is not just mental—it’s practical, emotional, spiritual. It happens through doing, through failing, through rituals, through care.
Emplacement & Bioregional Learning
We are shaped by the places we inhabit. We listen to the land, the rivers, the ruins, the plants. As Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui says, “The territory is not just geography—it is memory, body, and struggle.” Bioregional learning calls us to pay attention to where we are, and to whom we owe our presence there.
De-colonising
To decolonize is not a metaphor. It is painful, ongoing work—of undoing erasures, of reclaiming silenced knowledges, of disrupting power. It begins with ourselves, and extends to the structures we inhabit.
Inter(trans)cultural Dialogue
We meet across difference not to agree, but to relate. Dialogue is not fusion—it is listening without erasure. We practice speaking from our own centers, and listening without translating everything into sameness.
Gift Economy
We offer our time, our labor, our presence as gifts—not as transactions. The gift economy is a practice of reciprocity, care, and trust in the abundance that lives in
relationship.
Languaje Justice
We create space for people to speak in the languages that live in their hearts. Language justice is not only about translation — it’s about honoring what each voice carries, and refusing to let one language define what counts as knowledge.
Radical Trust
We organize with trust as our foundation. Trust in each other’s intentions. Trust in the unknown. Trust in the chaos. Trust in the process. Trust that we are held by mother earth and what we are experiencing is learning process.
Composting conflict
Composting confl ict is not about avoiding friction. It’s about staying with it, caring for what it reveals, and honoring the lessons it brings. It’s how we move from rupture to repair, and from reaction to deeper connection.
Intergenerationality
We believe learning ows across generations—elders, youth, children, and ancestors all carry different kinds of wisdom. Intergenerationality is a practice of listening, honoring time lived and time to come. Like Ubuntu, we are because others are—our learning is woven through the stories, struggles, and dreams of those who walked before us and those who walk beside us.
Yes and...
We practice co-creation through trust, openness, and the willingness to build with one another. “Yes, and…” is an invitation to receive ideas not as obstacles or competitions,
but as possibilities to expand together. Rather than closing down difference, we learn to
stay in relationship with it — accepting tensions, perspectives, and unexpected directions as part of the creative process. It is a politics of trust that asks us to listen deeply, support what is emerging, and collectively shape something none of us could create alone.
At Ecoversities, we are not building an institution—we are weaving a constellation: a living, breathing movement that is always becoming. Our co-learnings are not fixed rules or checkboxes. They are invitations. Resonances. Provocations.
They are seeds we plant together—nurturing ways of learning and being that challenge dominant, colonial, and patriarchal paradigms of education.
Emergence
We resist the urge to control outcomes. Learning is alive — unfolding in its own time, shaped by the relationships and conditions around it. We welcome what arises, even when it’s messy, uncertain, or incomplete. As Bayo Akomolafe reminds us, “The cracks are also openings.”
We walk with these intentions — not as fixed truths, but as shared agreements in motion emerged and continually emerging from our lived experiences. They invite us to slow down, to unlearn, to remember who, why, and where we are.
Inquiry in Solidarity
We learn with others, not about them. This is not research—it’s relation. It’s walking together, asking questions that matter, holding complexity without rushing toward answers. Like the Zapatistas says: “Walking we ask” (caminando preguntamos).
Experiential Learning
We trust what the body knows. Learning is not just mental—it’s practical, emotional, spiritual. It happens through doing, through failing, through rituals, through care.
Emplacement & Bioregional Learning
We are shaped by the places we inhabit. We listen to the land, the rivers, the ruins, the plants. As Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui says, “The territory is not just geography—it is memory, body, and struggle.” Bioregional learning calls us to pay attention to where we are, and to whom we owe our presence there.
De-colonising
To decolonize is not a metaphor. It is painful, ongoing work—of undoing erasures, of reclaiming silenced knowledges, of disrupting power. It begins with ourselves, and extends to the structures we inhabit.
Inter(trans)cultural Dialogue
We meet across difference not to agree, but to relate. Dialogue is not fusion—it is listening without erasure. We practice speaking from our own centers, and listening without translating everything into sameness.
Gift Economy
We offer our time, our labor, our presence as gifts—not as transactions. The gift economy is a practice of reciprocity, care, and trust in the abundance that lives in
relationship.
Gift Economy
Languaje Justice
We create space for people to speak in the languages that live in their hearts. Language justice is not only about translation — it’s about honoring what each voice carries, and refusing to let one language define what counts as knowledge.
Language Justice
Radical Trust
We organize with trust as our foundation. Trust in each other’s intentions. Trust in the unknown. Trust in the chaos. Trust in the process. Trust that we are held by mother earth and what we are experiencing is learning process.
Radical Trust
Composting conflict
Composting confl ict is not about avoiding friction. It’s about staying with it, caring for what it reveals, and honoring the lessons it brings. It’s how we move from rupture to repair, and from reaction to deeper connection.
Intergenerationality
We believe learning ows across generations—elders, youth, children, and ancestors all carry different kinds of wisdom. Intergenerationality is a practice of listening, honoring time lived and time to come. Like Ubuntu, we are because others are—our learning is woven through the stories, struggles, and dreams of those who walked before us and those who walk beside us.
Yes and...
We practice co-creation through trust, openness, and the willingness to build with one another. “Yes, and…” is an invitation to receive ideas not as obstacles or competitions,
but as possibilities to expand together. Rather than closing down difference, we learn to
stay in relationship with it — accepting tensions, perspectives, and unexpected directions as part of the creative process. It is a politics of trust that asks us to listen deeply, support what is emerging, and collectively shape something none of us could create alone.
What might the university look like if it were at the service of our diverse ecologies, cultures, economies, spiritualities and Life within our planetary home?
More than numbers
Across 40 countries, hundreds of projects and initiatives are reimagining how we learn and live. Explore the network and connect with Ecoversities around the world. Explore the map
Publications - Actions - Stories
Dive into our growing archive of publications, community-led actions, and inspiring stories. From radical pedagogies to regenerative practices, explore the diverse initiatives and hear the myriad voices shaping the Ecoversities movement.
The Ecoversities Alliance thrives through collective action. We invite you to participate in gatherings, contribute to research, share your experiences, or start an Ecoversity in your region. Discover ways to engage.
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The Ecoversities Alliance
The Ecoversities Alliance is a community of learning practitioners from around the world committed to re-imagining higher education to cultivate human and ecological flourishing in response to the critical challenges of our times.
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