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On September 9 and 10, 2023, a preparatory visit was held and, together with our partners, we developed an education program called "Civitas: Promoting Active Citizenship through Youth Work 2023", which will be held at the end of September at the DKC School of the Prizma Association in Velo Iž . The topics of education will be active citizenship, European values and work with young people. IGOR is a partner in the project...

Natural Building implies the use of local, natural and recycled materials whose production has a low ecological footprint and does not require a high proportion of industrial processing of materials. The most common building materials are straw, wood, stone, earth, brick, hemp, sheep's wool and reed. Natural Building takes care of energy efficiency by using renewable energy sources for the functioning of buildings, relying on a rich construction tradition and modern green technologies.
During May, June and July 2023, a hobbit house was built underground. The built hobbit house has a massive organic wooden structure with wooden cladding, layers of waterproofing and a triple drainage system. The front wall of the hobbit house is made of straw bales plastered with lime plaster on the outside, the interior with clay plaster, and the carpentry is made of recycled ship hatches. The floors and terraces are made of massive blue stone, the roof covering is an extensive green roof, and a raktena stove was built for heating. The hobbit house was designed by the British designer Matthew Holmes.
Igor Štavlić is one of the participants who successfully completed the 5th Academy of Natural Building in 2023 at the Recycled Estate educational center in Vukomerić from the ZMAG association.
All programs took place under the professional guidance of our teachers Kristijan Perlić, Matko Šišak, Jakov Radošević, Goran Brumić Mex, Matthew Holmes and Mihael Stošić.
We worked, we built, we studied, we celebrated!
Thanks to the entire professional team for their excellent leadership. Thank to my team of students of the 5th Academy of Natural Architecture and the new friendships made. Great experience…

Photo: Matej Marjanović and Ana Kolarević
More about it: www.zmag.hr 

New project, new partnership... Erasmus+ activity Civitas 2023: Promoting Active Citizenship through Youth Work, KA1 – Mobility of Youth Workers in which IGOR, Lifelong Learning Centre in Nature, is a project partner.

NGO's Croatian Permaculture, Permaculture Dalmacija, Vestigium and Association for Community Economy organized the 4th national permaculture convergence in Croatia on June 3 and 4, 2023 in Križevci, at the Mariapoli Faro Center.
Permaculture convergence is a gathering of permaculturists whose purpose is to exchange knowledge, present permaculture activities, projects and activities, and award permaculture designer diplomas. Traditionally, we consider permaculturists to be people who have successfully completed a standard 72-hour permaculture design course (PDC) under the guidance of a graduated permaculture designer in the country or abroad, but the gathering is also open to people who have not completed the course.
The 4th national permaculture convergence was also attended by Igor Štavlić, who completed the standard 72-hour permaculture design course (PDC) in 2022 at the Recycled Estate in the village of Vukomerić, organized by ZMAG.

An excellent three-day education during which we dealt with digital nomads, village revitalization and work with young people in rural areas, co-living and co-working concepts in the European countryside, and the strategy of bringing digital nomads to their place/village. The training was attended by participants from Croatia, Germany, Slovenia and Spain. During the training, leaders and participants showed plenty of creativity, cooperation, togetherness and launched initiatives for new projects and a prosperous new future for the village/rural areas...

The education was held from May 16 to 18, 2023 in Veli Iž at "DKC Školj" organized by the Prizma Association, and as part of the Erasmus + project Nomadland: digital nomads - a new opportunity for European rural areas, 2021-2-SI02-KA220 -YOU-000048355. Partners in the project are: ID20 from Slovenia, PRIZMA Association from Croatia, INI-Novation from Germany and ATPERSON from Spain.
All praise for the organization of the education, the leaders and participants of the education, the environment...
More about the project: https://www.nomadland-project.com/