The European Permaculture Community Forum (EUPC) is a 5-day online event, taking place from March 1st – 5th 2023, dedicated to sharing inspiration and information from across the community to as wide an audience as possible. This event was previously held in 2021 as the European Permaculture Convergence online.
Featuring speakers and projects both live and pre-recorded from spheres including permaculture, regenerative agriculture, urban agriculture, community projects and more.
Where the Permaculture Community meets
- 5 days of rich programme
- 3 hrs+ of live content each day
- 25+ inspiring speakers from all corners of Europe
- Easy & flexible access to online plattform
- View the recordings for 1 year
Be inspired
- A diversity of perspectives on food systems
- Stories from regenerative farmers, growers and cooperatives
- Knowledge on growing food at different scales: from balcony to farm
- Networking with the local and international community
- An opportunity to participate in live discussions and Q&As
- Watch free to access videos from 2021 on the new EUPC website: forum.eupc.community
How to participate?
Join our community by buying your ticket here >>
All tickets provide access to the 5 days of live content and all recordings from the event for a whole year.
Tickets range in price from €30 to €100 with bursaries available for those on low incomes and from less developed regions.
Let's talk about food!
Food affects all of us, whether we love growing our own or wonder what the footprint of our shopping-list is. For this reason, we decided to focus this year’s main event, the EUPC Forum, on food systems.
Food production in the world today means…
- Conventional approaches have a huge negative environmental impact and make a big contribution to climate change
- There is more and more doubt regarding global and local food quality and security
Permaculture shows there is an alternative!
Permaculture practices highlight that producing food in harmony with natural ecosystems is better for everyone, increasing biodiversity, building up soil and guaranteeing more stable livelihoods for farmers.
The theme of the EUPC Forum 2023 is based around food at different scales from home to farming. Each day is dedicated to a specific field of food production.
The EUPC Winter Series 2023
Get a taste of the EUPC Community and participate in our Winter Series!
In January and February 2023, we will host three online events, each focused on a food and permaculture-related topic.
The evening events will be held on Zoom and are free of charge.
They will run for approximately 90 minutes.
Please register at the event pages which you can find links to by clicking on the events above. Please note that all times listed on the EUPC website are in CET (that's GMT + 1hr).
EUPC 2021 Information
The European Permaculture Convergence (EUPC) has now finished! Check out the calendar to find out what happened during the event.
Don't worry if you missed it though - it's not too late! - you can easily catch up and watch the recordings. Trust us, it's worth it!
Register to watch the recordings now at: http://crowdcast.io/e/eupc2021/register
A donation of minimum 15 Euros is requested for the content. There are 10 curated sessions, each of around 3hrs each, plus 8 'Open Space' Zoom recordings of individual sessions ranging from 30 minutes to 2hrs in length. That's over 40hrs of content accessible.
And find out more about it on the EUPC website, now at: www.eupc.community
From Resilient Communities to Youth and Farming with Nature, there's something to suit all levels and interests during this exciting programme. Over the 10 days of the event we heard from many corners of Europe - from Denmark to Portugal, Scotland to Ukraine - demonstrating the incredible diversity in the European permaculture ecosystem.
Information about the programme that happened and other useful information can be found below.
2021 programme
National, regional and local organisations shared sessions and workshops, as well as pre-recorded tours of permaculture projects.
Free to access videos from 2021 are available on the new EUPC website: forum.eupc.community
The primary working language of the convergence was English, with other options explored to help remove barriers, including some edge events in other European languages.
It's not too late to go see it all at www.crowdcast.io/e/eupc2021/register
Just a few of the speakers in 2021:
The featured guests and organisations took part via live interactive broadcasts or via pre-recorded sections included:-
- Kate Raworth, UK (Doughnut Economics) - Doughnut Economy and the DEAL Platform
- John D. Liu, China & USA (Ecosystem Restoration Camps)
- Morag Gamble, Australia (PermaYouth)
- Stephan Schwarzer, Germany - Regenerative Agriculture, New approaches in Germany and beyond
- Declan Kennedy, Germany (Co-Founder, European Permaculture Network) - Story of permaculture in Europe
- Sigi Tatschl, Austria - Edible Communities
- Luiza Oliviera, Spain - Inclusivity and Decolonization
- Martin Stengl, Germany - Straw Bale Buildings and Ecovillages
- Juan Pedro Franco, Spain (La Casa Integral) - Upping food sovereignty in urban areas
- Looby Macnamara, UK (Cultural Emergence) - Social Permaculture and Cultural Emergence
- Susannah Hall, UK (Permablitz London) - The Permablitz approach to creating home and community gardens
- Julia Soler, Leonie Woidt-Wallisser, Ann Doherty - Spain, Germany, Holland (City Plot) - Growing Edible Cities
- James Atherton, Greece (ReAlliance) - Permaculture response to the refugee crisis
- Max and Teresa Mai, Austria (WohnWagon) - What needs to change in the construction industry?
- Lusi Alderslowe, UK (Children in Permaculture)
Watch recordings now at www.crowdcast.io/e/eupc2021/register
Be part of it
So that as many people as possible could attend, we used a ‘donate what you can afford’ structure to this event to reflect the diversity of communities across Europe. Cost was on a sliding scale from €15 to €100 (payments are in Euros rather than GBP) and this remains in place for the recordings.
To put it in perspective, a donation of €30 is the equivalent of just €3 per session!
This event supports the development of permaculture all across Europe. Funds raised from ongoing sales will be used to help support and grow our European permaculture community so that more people can bring about their own positive change. Donations make this work possible, so we are grateful for whatever you can afford to give.
Register to access the recordings at www.crowdcast.io/e/eupc2021
The full EUPC website and programme can be found at https://www.eupc.community as well as further information about the recordings on offer.
Support Us
We are relying on the permaculture community to work with us to help promote this event to the many people across Europe. This is especially true where the permaculture networks are not as strong or are emergent at this time.
Here are the links to our logos & graphics and written text.
We have a new Facebook Page aimed at building the European Permaculture Community here.
We also have a Facebook Event here. Please let us know if you’re coming and share it to your networks.