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Do you know that community gardens help mitigate the effects of climate change? Discover how community-managed gardens can serve as urban green infrastructure.
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How Do Teaching Skills Help in Empowering Community Gardeners

How Do Teaching Skills Help in Empowering Community Gardeners

Community gardens transform into vibrant educational hubs, offering green solutions and fostering sustainable community engagement. This module equips garden leaders with the skills to create impactful educational experiences, integrating non-formal educational methods that enhance gardeners’ knowle…
Local Actions to Combat Climate Change

Local Actions to Combat Climate Change

Exploring the fight against climate change, they distinguish between adaptation and mitigation, addressing the urgent problem of greenhouse gases, the importance of localized action in a global scenario, and the impact of personal lifestyle choices on the collective effort to mitigate environmental …
Communication: a Key To Sustainability

Communication: a Key To Sustainability

Community gardens are vital hubs within local communities, often serving as centers for education and awareness regarding climate change. However, the effectiveness of these green spaces in promoting environmental consciousness can be limited by a lack of necessary skills and knowledge. Addressing t…
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Training Programme
for Community Gardens

Community gardens help us to grow vegetables, herbs, and good-neighbourly relations. They also help fight climate change and educate communities on how to adapt to this global issue. Turn your community garden into a green urban oasis that everyone can enjoy – you, the neighbours, and our planet.

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Find out how community gardens can become environmental education centres

Fight climate change and its impacts on your community

Get inspired by community gardens across Europe

We have harvested our know-how about community gardens all over Europe and we are happy to share it with you for free.

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Why Does It
Matter?

12 °C

By this amount, urban trees can reduce the temperature in cities*

*source: nature.com

88 million tons

organic waste that ends up in landfills in the EU each year*

*source: food.ec.europa.eu

30

meters loss of ice in alpine glaciers thickness from 1997 to 2021*

*source: State of the Climate Europe 2021

In Europe, 73% of people live in urban environments that are highly affected by climate change. The impact is visible everywhere – in the environment, in the economy, and in society (climateAdapt). The continental areas will face heat extremes and a reduction in summer rainfalls. In general, mountainous areas will experience above-average increases in temperatures (EEA, 2016). Community-managed gardens could be an important part of the solution to this global crisis.

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Think Global, Act Local

Think Global, Act Local

Last year the Ecogardens team focused on exploring the potential of community gardens in the realm of climate change adaptation. O…

Get to Know Us

Five European countries and six organisations have joined together to create a beneficial project to support and educate community gardeners, adult education providers, NGOs, and municipalities among many others. We believe that community gardens can play an important role in the fight against climate change in urban areas.

Who are we?

Kokoza (CZ)

A social enterprise promoting composting and urban gardening among individuals, companies, or municipalities.

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Gartenpolylog (AT)

An association founded in 2007 to promote the idea of intercultural community gardens in Austria.

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OnP (ES)

OnP helps projects financed by European funds with their project management, coordination, monitoring, and evaluation.

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KÉK (HU)

An independent professional organisation with the aim of opening new perspectives in architectural and urban thinking.

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PS (FR)

An association that develops its projects and actions according to UNESCO's 4 pillars of education: learn to know, learn to be, learn to do, learn to live together and with the others.

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KBO (AT)

The largest climate protection network in Austria raising awareness about climate issues and sustainable development.

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“At OnProjects, we are committed to the most current social challenges, among which is the fight against climate change. We believe that the objectives to be developed within the framework of Ecogardens are more than necessary and it was important for us to do our bit.”
– Aida Yáñez-Sedeño, OnP
– Aida Yáñez-Sedeño, OnP
“Thanks to the Ecogardens project, new knowledge can be gained and serve as valuable support for the collaboration with community gardens. In our opinion, this project makes a valuable contribution to raising awareness of the important role of community gardens as green infrastructure and habitat for both humans and diverse flora and fauna.”
– Andrea Wagner, KBO
– Andrea Wagner, KBO
“Utilizing the experience of more than 17 years, we are keen on being part of an international professional cooperation to share our knowledge and get to know the best practices of other European countries.”
– Dr. Pink Edit Éva, KÉK
– Dr. Pink Edit Éva, KÉK
"Urban gardens are green islands with history in an urbanised sea".
– Raúl Puente Asuero, Miraflores park gardens
– Raúl Puente Asuero, Miraflores park gardens
"Thank you for this very interesting and useful tool, which will turn our gardens even more into green places of learning. I look forward to passing some of it on to our gardeners and also making it usable for people outside the garden. This will enable our gardens to make an even more important contribution to climate awareness."
– Christine, Bunte Daumen Kufstein
– Christine, Bunte Daumen Kufstein
"It's great that this platform has been created to educate community gardeners."
– Alica Sroková, Centrum Černý Most
– Alica Sroková, Centrum Černý Most
"This is a unique and rewarding project to help community gardens become centres for education and information about climate change. Thumbs up for me."
– Štěpán Říha, Metrofarm
– Štěpán Říha, Metrofarm
"If you want to be happy for a day, get drunk. If you want to be happy for one year, get married. If you want to be happy all your life, become a gardener. I say, and so does Lao-c."
– Michal Plundra, Of unearthly delights
– Michal Plundra, Of unearthly delights
"I recommend the e-learning course because it is the first comprehensive course of its kind and is based on a broad European collaboration."
– Petra Váchová, Prokopka
– Petra Váchová, Prokopka
"I'm excited about the unique platform connecting the topic of community gardens and climate change. I am happy to recommend it."
– Anna Černá, Kokoza
– Anna Černá, Kokoza
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The ECOGARDENS project is funded by the Erasmus+ Programme. Thank you for your support.