The next JUMP! Happily Changed New Year 2019
From 8 to 12 October 2018, one year after its launch, the project JUMP! held its 3rd transnational meeting, this time in Austria.
So far, our work has focused on the key preliminary inventories. We have competed three:
Firstly, a document which summarises the principles and values of sustainable construction (existing charters, etc.)
Secondly, an inventory of descriptions and references of competence relating to the activities of trainers
Finally, an analysis of networks involving the activities of trainers in eco-construction.
A fourth inventory is in progress concerning criteria and assessment tools for sustainable construction projects, while a fifth is being researched on the existing methods of training for change.
We began the second year of JUMP! with a pivotal meeting in Austria where we applied knowledge from our previous experiences to some practical tasks. The first was the creation of a charter, or maybe a memorandum, or a declaration, or is it a manifesto? This choice illustrates the intensity of discussions on the nature of this founding document that will have a legacy well beyond the duration of our project. It is an involved and complex piece of writing, one of the central tasks of the coming months.
The basic structure of the Train the Trainers program and the contents of the first modules are now defined. It is interesting for all participants to observe how change experienced and inspired by the project on a human scale is beginning to manifest on an institutional level. Perhaps this illustrates how personal transformation, apparently laborious and time consuming, can be an effective route to the project’s “most important aim” – true sustainability.
Some highlights of the Austrian meeting: