🇸🇰 Erasmus+ Training Course in Slovakia 🌿 Permaculture Movement — Design Resilient Futures Through Permaculture, Art & Non-Hierarchical Leadership 🎭

🔑 Key Information

Activity ⭐️ Title

PERMACULTURE MOVEMENT

Activity 🔶 Type | 📆 Dates | 📍Location

Training Course

30 July - 6 August 2026 | Prenčov - Banská Štiavnica, Slovak Republic

❗️What Is This Training About?

Permaculture Movement aims to bring together people, communities and organizations which share dreams, knowledge and methodologies focused on sustainable, resilient futures, including art as a tool for change.

ℹ️ Description About The Opportunity

The project creates spaces where participants can use permaculture theory and practice to co-design meaningful and innovative pathways forward. Instead of relying on hierarchical models, we cultivate participatory leadership, valuing each individual’s skills, perspectives, and creativity. In this way, crises become opportunities for growth, and uncertainty becomes a driver of collective innovation.

Main topics:

1. Permaculture as a design backbone, offering practical tools and principles such as Earth Care, People Care, and Fair Share to design your organisations/working environments as resilient living systems.

2. Art as a catalyst and communication tool, using theatre, contact improvisation, land art, and storytelling to process challenges, strengthen empathy, and make permaculture accessible and inspiring.

3. Non-hierarchical leadership practices, including Dragon Dreaming, The Way of Council, and cooperative decision-making methods that foster shared responsibility, dialogue, and consent-based processes.

Permaculture Movement I. and II.

The entire project will last two years and consists of two in-person activities and several online meetings.

●The first in-person activity will take place from 29th of July till 7th of August 2026. It will include an introduction to permaculture and participants will learn the basics of permaculture design, which they will then apply to specific sites in their countries, organizations, or communities. The program will be enriched with artistic, movement and self-care practices such as contact improvisation, theatre, and eco-somatics.

● The second in-person activity will take place one year later. Participants will present the implementation of their designs carried out in their home countries. The main part of the program will focus on co-creation and preparation of an artistic performance for Atmosféra Festival 2027, where the project and permaculture will be presented to the wider public through an artistic performance. This will be done under the guidance of experienced artists and performers.

Training overview

This Training Course is

for 25 participants

from Austria, Estonia, France, Greece, Poland, Slovak Republic, Spain, Ukraine

and recommended for

Youth workers, Trainers, Youth leaders, Youth project managers, Environmental activists, community builders, artists.

Working language(s):

English

Organiser:

ARTKRUH (Youth NGO)

ART KRUH is a civic association established in 2004. It is a corporation of artists, craftsmen, creative and natural people. Our mission is to promote cultural heritage preservation and develop traditional values in the fields of arts, crafts, and sustainable lifestyle specifically in rural areas. Our philosophy is based on principles of Permaculture and we are the part of larger central association „school of Permaculture“ in Slovakia. We provide the educational center for non-formal education, deeper human contact with nature, with oneself, and for the regeneration of human communities. Throughout the year organize several events such as training courses, seminars, camps, workshops, and cultural events. The aim is to create a space for education, expression, exploration of oneself through creative and artistic means in everyday-life activities. We want to motivate people to live an active, creative, meaningful, sustainable lifestyle. Our main target group is youngsters but we also work with children and adults. Throughout the year we organize several events such as training courses, seminars, camps, workshops, and festivals.

📥 Contact

Contact for questions:

Dominika Dudova

E-Mail:

Phone: +421907189828

💶 Costs

Participation fee

Accommodation and food

All costs connected with training, for food and accommodation are funded by the Erasmus + program.

Travel reimbursement

Travel costs will be reimbursed based on real costs according to the Erasmus+ distance band calculator up to the budget limit set by the Erasmus+ programme.

For individual countries as follows up to the limit:

Estonia, Spain, Greece, France - 309€; green travel - 417€

Austria, Poland - only green travel - 285€

Ukraine - only green travel - 417€

Slovakia - 0€

📜 Certificate

Participants are entitled to receive a Youthpass certificate from the organiser, for recognition of their competence development during the activity. Read more about Youthpass:

https://youthworkshub.org/15122