Our Mission
Our Mission
A real alternative to mainstream education and life. Ecoversities is a planetary alliance of learners and communities reclaiming diverse knowledges, relationships and imaginations to design new approaches to higher education. We cultivate spaces for unlearning, co-creation, and deep connection with the Earth and each other. Join us in shaping a future where education is regenerative, decolonial, and rooted in diverse ways of knowing and being.
It is a surprising and fertile process, where important things take their place and grow. The Alliance fertilizes the soil in which we stand.
Who are we?
Who are we?
We are people from different parts of the world committed to reclaiming diverse knowledge systems and exploring new approaches to higher education, learning, and life. We come from many cultures, territories, and backgrounds, yet we are connected by a shared curiosity about how learning can be rooted in community, ecology, spirituality, autonomy, and care. Together, we weave relationships, collaborations, gatherings, publications, exchanges, and learning journeys across the network.
Our work is sustained through mutual support, a gift-economy spirit, and a small team that helps coordinate the shared infrastructures that make the Alliance possible.
Below are some of the people that have been part of this journey.
2015 – Founders
2015 - Founders
The Ecoversities Alliance was initiated by these six founders, whose vision continues to inspire a global movement of people reclaiming diverse knowledge systems and reimagining higher education in service of life. Their work helped cultivate the first relationships, conversations, and collaborations from which the Alliance emerged and continues to evolve.
Kelly Teamy
Udi Mandel
Manish Jain
Dr. Kū Kahakalau
Alessandra Pomarico
Gerardo Lopez Amaro
People that have contributed in different ways in the network
People that have contributed in different ways in the network
Edomyas Solomon
Paige Teamy
Andrea González Andino
Harsh Wardhan
Ana Marica
Sierra Ying Allen
Chevanni
Nariman Moustafa
Eileen Walz
Sara El-Sayeh
Catarina Rosa
Albert Salazar Corrales
Yeyo Beltrán
Bianca Suyama
Camilo Bossio
Magda Luz Bonilla
Salomón Espinoza
Clara Luz
Wangui wa Kamonji
Ashish Tiwari
Maura Stephens
André Vielma
Sara El-Sayeh
Agatha Liz
Ana
Angelica Lambert
Archana Tomar
Bianca Najara
Clement Moliner Roy
Emilio Fantin
Giselle Paulino
Joao Gabriel
Marco Andrade
Michael Basseches
Nonhlanhla Nicolette Godole
Sandra Lezama
Victoria Haro
Maria Agraciada Ka’aîuna
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Our History
Our History
A conversation begins — 2015
Ecoversities began around 2015 as a growing conversation among people and communities exploring ways of learning beyond mainstream education.
What started as a set of relationships, questions, and encounters gradually grew into something larger. Gatherings, exchanges, residencies, publications, collaborative projects, and shared learning journeys became ways of connecting across places and experiences.
Growing through relationships
Rather than becoming a single institution, Ecoversities grew as a decentralized ecosystem of people, places, and initiatives exploring how learning can be rooted in community, culture, territory, and the Earth.
The network grew through relationships and through the many ways people chose to participate, share, collaborate, and learn together.
Learning how to organize together
As the Alliance began receiving grants to support its activities, a small team emerged to coordinate shared resources. Over several years, different people stepped into roles connected to fund distribution, administration, communications, coordination, and the many behind-the-scenes tasks that allowed gatherings, residencies, publications, and collaborative initiatives to flourish. Their work was carried out in a spirit of gift economy, service, and shared responsibility.
As the Alliance continued to grow, stewardship expanded beyond a small coordinating team. The Instigators emerged as a wider constellation of people who helped facilitate service circles, accompany projects, host conversations, coordinate initiatives, care for relationships, and support collective decision-making across the network.
This distributed approach allowed many more members to actively shape the life of the Alliance and strengthened its decentralized and collaborative nature.
A living network
Today, a smaller coordination team supports the practical stewardship of the Alliance and its current grant cycle. At the same time, the wider Ecoversities ecosystem continues to grow through hundreds of people, communities, and initiatives that animate the network across diverse territories.
The Assembly brings together people actively contributing to the Alliance through its different service circles. It is a space to build relationships, make collective decisions, coordinate shared actions, and care for the evolving life of the network.
While the Assembly supports work connected to grant cycles, it goes beyond them: it is an ongoing experiment in collective governance, stewardship, and learning together.
The story of Ecoversities is therefore not only a history of dates, roles, or organizational structures. It is a history of relationships—of people coming together, experimenting with different ways of organizing, stepping in and stepping back, and continuing to learn how to build a network together.
The crisis we are in indicates that we are brushing up against the limits of human reason. It is time we re-activate our diverse perceptions, senses, intuitions and entanglement with the more-than-human world.
Our Partners
Our Partners
The Ecoversities Alliance is not a formal organization, and its the activities unfold through a process of trust and mutuality, a growing web of relationships that have been nurtured through our gatherings and beyond.
