The Global Gatherings are moments to bring together people who are running or who are deeply involved with ‘alternatives’ to higher education — working within, against, and beyond the modern university — as well as in locally-rooted learning spaces that are regenerating community and a sensibility of coming back home.

Many of these places are connected with different grassroots, social and ecological movements, indigenous communities, and others.

There is an emerging constellation of eco-versities — people and communities reclaiming their local knowledge systems and learning practices to restore and re-envision learning processes that are meaningful and relevant to the call of our times, that cultivate new stories and possibilities, and that re-connect and re-generate diverse ecological, social, economic, and cultural ecosystems in the spirit of coming home.

In the Global Gatherings the intention is to design the time and space together, maintaining the ethos of a collective, inclusive, and ecological approach. Therefore, the gift of the volunteers and members of this service circle is to help make this Global Gathering a reality while maintaining deep communication and collaboration with the local ecoversities hosting team.