Towards new regenerative patterns: connections among entrepreneurship, ecovillages, and permaculture

Social Café

Are you interested in starting a business, perhaps even one that not only generates economic value but is also truly sustainable—for the environment, the community, culture, and yourself? 

So ECOPRISE is the right course for you!

To learn more, join ECOPRISE’s Social Café for free: 

Wednesday, October 1, 2025, from 5:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.

Live on Facebook and YouTube

The ECOPRISE project offers a free training course that combines social entrepreneurship, ecovillage design, and permaculture, helping you to transform your ideas into concrete initiatives that combine regeneration, inclusion, and social innovation.

During the Social Café, we will present the course and its opportunities, but that’s not all. We will meet expert speakers in these areas and learn about their initiatives, and we will engage in a roundtable discussion on the advantages, challenges, and training paths useful for networking and growing together, working for environmental, social, cultural, and economic regeneration.  

Agenda

• Introduction of the ECOPRISE project.
• Let’s get to know the speakers and their initiatives.
• Round table:  

• Can entrepreneurship, EDE, and permaculture be combined?
• What benefits and challenges arise from this merging?
• Do training programs exist that can support this path?

• Presentation of the ECOPRISE course, a future learning opportunity on regenerative social entrepreneurship, with local and international experiential visits, 100% free of charge.
• Q&A session

Among the speakers, who will be revealed in the coming days, are an expert in permaculture in Italy, an entrepreneurial, social and artistic enterprise in Palermo, and a representative of Italian ecovillages. 

About the project

ECOPRISE – Future-oriented social entrepreneurship through Ecovillage Design is a project funded by Erasmus+ KA2 Partnerships for Innovation- Alliance 2023.

Partners

• CESIE ETS (coordinator, Italy)
• LAND (Italy)
• Iscte – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (Portugal)
• GLOBAL ECOVILLAGE NETWORK OF EUROPEEV (Germany)
• UNIVERZITET U NOVOM SADU (Serbia)
• UAB THEORIA (The Critical) (Lithuania)
• EUROTRAINING EDUCATIONAL ORGANIZATION (Greece)
• ReadLab Brussels (Belgium)
• CSI CENTER FOR SOCIAL INNOVATION LTD (Cyprus)
• GRANTXPERT (Cyprus)
• Mazoji Bendrija Zaliasis judejimas (Lithuania)
• ECQA GMBH (Austria)

For further information

Read more about the project, visit https://ecoprise.eu/ and follow us on Facebook, LinkedIn and Instagram.

Contact Simona Palumbo: simona.palumbo@cesie.org.