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Idea for a Workshop on Degrowth & Energy

Hey,

this is Jonas from the Mental Infrastructures Workshop. I just wanted to confirm this way that I did not forget you and the nice experience we had in Leipzig and at the same time fill this page with some life (although not to deep;) ).

Oldenburg is doing fine. Directly after the workshop, we discussed how our group can contribute to the GROWL concept and we thought that the course agenda is missing a course on "Degrowth and Energy", which could be held by some humble engineers. We feel that Energy is often seen as something uninteresting and unaccessible unlike for example the food topic.

The idea is to describe the way the triplet of Renewable Energy, Energy Efficiency and Energy Sufficiency can lay out the foundation for a real sustainable society and may even pave the way towards it as Renewable Energy is potentially decentralized and small-scale. This enables citizens and cooperatives to engage and takes away power from big players.

The challenge is to make this topic accessible to Non-Professionals and to make it so wonderfully interactive as done by Thomas, Susanne, Christoph and Kristina.

However, for the moment we postponed that idea as we are trying to find jobs and are in some kind of transitional process. But let me hear what you think of the idea! Is it at all interesting? Can it contribute meaningfully to the GROWL concept?

Kind regards

Jonas

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Hey Jonas!

This sounds great! I think it would be a very important topic to complement the GROWL programme. I don't know if it is possible to include it in the current programme and funding. Probably difficult. But why not save the idea for the following project and/or for a similar context?

I am back from vacation and will now start with the documentation...

Best, Susanne

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Hi Jonas,

Nice to hear from you. I think your idea pre-figures what could be a very interesting and important module on the topic of energy, which is still clearly missing from our batch of projects.

We have just finished the GROWL course in Greece - very different from the one in Leipzig, but also extremely interesting. I am reassured that we are building an amazing and diverse network for learning on degrowth with this project.

At the partners meeting, we started to discuss the follow-up of GROWL on the post-Grundtvig funding (ends on July 2015). As Susanne says, it might be difficult at this moment to get a direct funding for an additional module/course, but the ideas to be able to support future courses and developments are there and will be further worked until and at the next partners meeting (March/April 2015).

I will now go on a few days vacation with my daughters and will be back around the 20th. Tomorrow we will be on our way to Creta to hopefully enjoy a few last days of summer before diving into the 6 months of Central European winter ;)

Greetings from Thessaloniki!

Gualter

PS: All of you (Jonas and others?) that want to become trainers, please send me a short mail with the topic "TTT", so that I can add you to the trainers area, where you should post your assignment proposals.