The 2008 Award for European Ecovillage Excellence has been won by the Italian ecovillage, la Commune di Bagnaia.
Sieben Linden is an Ecovillage in Germany, between Hamburg and Berlin. Set-up in 1997, now 80 adults and 30 children set-up a social ecological model settlement.
Fund-raising efforts during and following GEN-Europe’s annual gathering at Sieben Linden, succeeded in raising Euro 700 for the GEN Senegal programme.