[Council] Fwd: Fwd: Urgent concerns about Erasmus-funded event connected to GEN-Europe

[Stefanie Raysz]

Dear Council, Manja and Carolin,

this has just arrived, do you know anything about this "movements" (La 
Smala) in our network?
comment of Brigitta: "Erasmus-funded events to take place at La Smala 
under the name of GEN-Europe" - is there anything against it?

I haven't spoken nor heard of them, is this a question for GEN Suisse od 
GEN Europe? Do we have (discussed) a leadership on "the French GEN 
Suisse" in GEN Europe, is this community still a (paying) member?

Curious about answers

All the best
Stefanie



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Betreff: 	Fwd: Urgent concerns about Erasmus-funded event connected to 
GEN-Europe
Datum: 	Tue, 26 Sep 2023 10:04:04 +0200
Von: 	Brigitta Spälti <brigitta.spaelti at ecovillage.org>
An: 	Stefanie Raysz <stefanie.raysz at schloss-tempelhof.de>




Liebe Stefanie

Könntest Du bitte die unten stehende E-Mail an den gesamten GEN-Europe 
council senden?

Ich hatte nicht die richtigen Mailadressen von den anderen.

Vielen Dank und liebe Grüsse

Brigitta

*Global Ecovillage Network*

Brigitta Spälti
/Representative to the United Nations/

/Ambassador of GEN/
/Ambassador of REDES/

brigitta.spaelti at ecovillage.org
www.ecovillage.org <http://www.ecovillage.org>
www.redes-ecovillages.org <http://www.redes-ecovillages.org>


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*Urgent concerns about an Erasmus-funded event connected to GEN-Europe*

    Dear council members of GEN-Europe

    We have heard that La Smala, is known to GEN Europe as the leader of
    the French-speaking GEN-Network of Switzerland.


     First of all, this suprises us, because there has never been any 
agreement
     from GEN-Suisse with La Smala to take this responsability and target.

    Various adverse information have come towards GEN-Suisse concerning
    La Smala. And GEN-Suisse at its own has had various negative
    experiences with La Smala aswell.

    It is also the case that La Smala left the GEN-Suisse network about
    5 years ago. The fact that it presents itself as "Ecovillages
    Romandie" /(French part of Switzerland)/ is not done in agreement
    with GEN-Suisse.

    We visited la Smala a year ago and explained what steps it would
    need to take to become part of GEN-Suisse. Since then we have not
    heard back from them. During the visit at their place, we got doubts
    whether they meet the democratic requirements of an ecovillage, for
    example in decision-making.

    Former members of La Smala reported authoritarian and manipulative
    behaviour on the part of the management, and some have not fully
    recovered the money invested /(despite prior agreement)./

    For all these reasons, we feel it is worrying for Erasmus-funded
    events to take place at La Smala under the name of GEN-Europe.


     As GEN-Suisse, the official Swiss network of ecovillages and eco-
     communities in Switzerland since 2011, we do not accept La Smala as 
leader
     of the French-speaking ecovillages of Switzerland, due to above 
mentionned
     issues.


    If you have any further questions, please do not hesitate to contact us:

    Brigitta (International Circle of GEN Suisse):
    brigitta.spaelti at ecovillage.org or
    Christophe (Regio Latina, Romandie & Ticino): christophe.kaufmann at hin.ch

    Kind regards and greetings



*Global Ecovillage Network*

Brigitta Spälti

/Coordination-Circle of GEN-Suisse/
/Circle International of GEN-Suisse/
/Representative to the United Nations/

/Ambassador of GEN/
/Ambassador of REDES/

brigitta.spaelti at ecovillage.org
_www.gen-suisse.ch <http://www.gen-suisse.ch>_
www.ecovillage.org <http://www.ecovillage.org>
www.redes-ecovillages.org <http://www.redes-ecovillages.org>
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