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2025-08-01-Core Council meeting

  • Date: 07.04.2025 - 10:00 CEST
  • Where: Jitsi
  • Who: Karen, Rory, Dominik
  • Next meeting: 3rd of October - 10:00 CEST at Jitsi

Agenda​

Purpose​

Which purpose resonates with you most:

  1. The purpose of the EuPN is to enable permaculture in Europe to be visible, connected, and accessible.
  2. The purpose of the EuPN is to strengthen permaculture in Europe by enabling visibility, accessibility, and collaboration among individuals, projects, and organisations, within the movement and in the wider society.
  3. The purpose of the EuPN is to make permaculture in Europe visible, connected, and accessible.
  4. The purpose of the EuPN is to strengthen permaculture in Europe by making people, projects, and organisations more visible and accessible, and by fostering collaboration, both within our movement and with the wider society.
  5. The purpose of the EuPN is to enable and promote permaculture in Europe to be visible, connected, and accessible.

Tendency towards the shorter version. Version 5 was suggested by Rory.

The PermaTalks 2026​

The submission form is open.

How to get more teachers?

Suggestions:

  • Select a theme -> to make it about one thing per month
  • Talk about how to put a talk together
  • Limit the time to max 15 minutes
  • Reinvite the diploma holder to talk about their diploma
  • Change the facilitator per talk
  • Reward for doing it - visibility on the EuPN website

Tutor network​

Tom Henfrey runs the International Tutors Guild for the PAB. He also has been working on the Internation Diploma College. He made several suggestion in regards how the EuPN could support tutors. There are 220 members of which are 60 teachers and of which are 20 tutors.

-> We could invite them to a first meeting and see where it goes. -> Mail to the tutors and see where it goes

Survey for national permaculture associations​

There is a survey for the national associations.

Which will be send out to organisations in Europe.

  • To the one that are already listed
  • To the one that needs to be searched for we include an invitation to join and the benefits like PermaTalks, Networking Calls, etc.

Upcoming networking calls - how can we attract more members?​

Link to the September Networking Call

One theme per call. - Members with social media account to share it.

  1. LinkedIn Post -> Aimee
  2. Ask the LinkedIn members to share it