Project objectives:

RESEARCH

• Conduct research to support & communicate the collective impact of Permaculture through collaboration with universities and other stakeholders such as grass roots projects, associations and research networks.
• Conduct Ethical digital products research and development producing research outputs and usable tools
• Hold practical spaces to address, transform, coordinate and weave stronger strategic relationships within the permaculture network to broaden access and impact of commons resources

TRAINING & CAPACITY BUILDING

• Design and deliver capacity building permaculture e-learning program for CoLab & allied networks on an annual basis
• Carry out permaculture enterprise activities including incubation support, promoting and enhancing already existing services for innovation and business development
• Conduct research and capture new funding opportunities into the funding opportunities database to increase and update opportunities available to permaculture projects in different domains.
• Develop and deliver funding readiness training to CoLab members and Allied Networks
• Development and publication of educational material to support permaculture projects to measure and communicate their impact
• Ethical digital tools awareness and literacy training to support CoLab members and the extended permaculture movement

DIGITAL SERVICES

• Tech support & hosting fund to cover digital services and hosting costs provided by the Digital Circle Services to: Permaculture International Research Network / eupc.community / Permaculture Impact & others which may qualify as movement assets
• Tech support & hosting fund to cover digital services and hosting costs for the CoLab and it’s circles including web hosting and other support software.

MOVEMENT & COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT

• Continuing to develop existing outreach channels, growing capacity and usefulness to the rest of the CoLab, and the wider permaculture movement and increase impact reach of already existing resources
• Increase communication capacity within circles and working groups through training and shared responsibility
• Welcoming and induction in the community using different modes of engagements (eg one to one, on-boarding, events etc)
  Community workplace admin & maintaining application of the active space policy
• Financial administration, Project management, Monitoring & evaluation for the funded project and Fundraising for the continuation of this work

EMERGENT, DIVERSITY & INCLUSION

• Leave room for emergent activities that emergence in line with CoLab VMAs – Emergent Festival a community led event over 6 months per year
• Diversity & Decolonisation Community pot to:
  enhance the diversity of the Colab as a collaborative space by supporting members who otherwise would not be able to engage and enable development and delivery of diversity training resources for the Colab and the wider movement.