A 4-day virtual conference to re-imagine education at a critical moment in history. For the last 200 years, many have worked to improve the education system and it has not been enough. What if we re-imagine higher education from the root? Hosted by the Ecoversities Alliance, and partnering communities from around the world, the Re-imagining
What SINA does?The Social Innovation Academy (SINA) educates former orphans, street children, refugees and other disadvantaged youth in Uganda to become job creators and social entrepreneurs with the ability to turn challenges into solutions. The empowerment and community at SINA has the effect, that the scholars start to understand their past as a strength, rather
These alivelihoods are restoring Nature and communities, making knowlede and the bounties of Nature and communities, making knowledge and the bounties of Nature freely accesible, bringing down inequities, facilitationg deep questioning and enquiry, healing the disconnected self and the wounded spirit, helping people experience real love and joy, all of which is dismantiling the machine
A BOLD, NEW, BOTTOM-UP, AT-SCALE, AT-PACE RESPONSE TO THE GLOBAL CLIMATE CRISIS We invite you to read about this adventure from Complexity University. You’ll find voices, study cases, what they did in 2020 and next steps towards reducing global emissions one prototype at the time: Gigatonne challenge – Complexity University from Ecoversities More information about
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Solidarity and Infrastructure – Progressive Consciousness “En plein air” In this session, we visualize and discover how nature relates to its own infrastructural moments. Let’s find answers en plein air with oil colours on canvas. The emergence of consciousness is related to the infrastructure of nature. The main problem of the infrastructure is around
This year it’s been a very complicated year and for many of us uncertainty has been part of this journey. With this in mind, we have designed this year’s Global Gathering as a learning journey that supports us to embrace this madness of a year. The learning journey is going to be 3 days long and
By Traian Brumă Part I : Five types of watercrafts that sail towards adulthood Introduction For a quarter of a century, Ceaușescu was Romania’s omnipresent dictator; his picture adorned every wall and stamped the first page of every book published. He was executed on Christmas day of 1989 and the country was suddenly “free”. I
By Sangeetha Sriram The real purpose of education is to serve life and enable meaningful living and bringing out the highest potential in people; fulfilling and dharmic livelihood is one among its many dimensions. But we now live in a world where an insatiable and destructive capitalist economy has come to exist for its own
By Sharmila Govande “A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.” <footer> <cite>Oliver Wendell Holmes</cite> <a href=”https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=%E2%80%9CA+mind+that+is+stretched+by+a+new+experience+can+never+go+back+to+its+old+dimensions.%E2%80%9D++%E2%80%94+Oliver+Wendell+Holmes&url=https%3A%2F%2Fecoversities.org%2Fwp-admin%2Fadmin-ajax.php” target=”_blank” rel=”noopener noreferrer”> Tweet </a> </footer> </blockquote> As part of our post graduation course in social work (1), we were required to get a glimpse of the local social
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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