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For those involved or interested in applying permaculture in the humanitarian and disaster relief sectors in Europe or elsewhere, the Re-Alliance Coalition brings together field practitioners, policy makers, educators, community leaders and humanitarian and development workers. Re-Alliance will soon be publishing their first case studies on their website.

The ReLeaP partnership project application, taken forward by the Resources for Action Working Group, and involving 8 EuPN members, will be submitted at the end of March. If Erasmus+ funding is approved this will deliver a 2 year ‘Regenerative Leadership Programme’ starting towards the end of 2020 to support the pioneers and leaders in permaculture networks, organisations, projects and teaching across Europe, with the aim that at least 50% of the participants will be under 30 years old.

Several EuPN members are partners in the 2-year BLAST project, which is now underway to develop, strengthen and support a growing Europe-wide community of practise for community-led transformative blended learning for sustainability and climate action. This will help widen access to tools and a platform for blended learning (which combines in-person and online training and resources), and accelerate their take up and wider use by permaculturists and its associated movements across Europe.

52 Climate Actions - https://www.52climateactions.com/ - has been launched, and work amongst the European and global partners and wider activity on climate action is continuing to move forward.

The pilot iLAND Network is taking shape with 7 aspiring LAND Centre projects having applied in Europe (in Latvia, Bulgaria (x2), Romania, Portugal, Ukraine and Netherlands), 4 across Africa, 1 in Armenia and 1 in Laos. IPEN will accept 15 projects in the pilot network, which we will provide more support to and which will help us refine the iLAND systems. We hope to have iLAND project profiles on the iLAND webpages during the first 3 months of 2020. From there we expect the network to expand significantly in Europe and around the world.

During Dutch Design Week, 16 to 25 October 2020, De Kloosterbostuin in Eindhoven The Netherlands is organising the first edition of the annual Feral Dutch Design* show at Landgoed Eikenburg.