IEFP Internship Opportunity
Job Description EcoAtivo is an association that develops environmental and ecological actions and projects for the regeneration of our planet. We work across various environmental areas in and around the municipalities of Fundão and Covilhã, and we also hold an incubation protocol through the Fundão Municipal Council’s incubator. EcoAtivo brings together a collective of diverse […]
Agroforestry Course
In the next month of April EcoAtivo presents to you one more opportunity to learn about the amazing Agroforest method.Using the tools and outlook brought by syntropic agriculture, this course offers a new possibility for the creation of an Agroforest, which brings together all the advantages of organic production, with the additional ones of being […]
[Closed] IEFP Internship Opportunity
Please note that applications for this opportunity are now closed. Thank you for your interest! Job description The EcoAtivo association develops environmental/ecological actions and projects for the regeneration of our planet. We operate across various environmental areas in and around the municipalities of Fundão and Covilhã, and we also have an incubation agreement through the […]
GREEN SKILLS Youth Course
In the past days, from 18th to 25th of November, another training course for youth workers took place. This time it was held in São Luis, Odemira at the Rural Learning Center with a total of 35 participants focusing on the theme “Green skills for a regenerative future”. The program of this training course incorporated […]
Acorn Gathering in Caria
Last Saturday, November 11th, EcoAtivo, together with the Ambiente group from Cova da Beira Converge, organized a planting of acorns, along with some cork oaks and hollies, in the parish of Belmonte. This activity brought together around 8 volunteers from the Cova da Beira area, motivated to help regenerate our region. Over 50 potential trees […]
Consultancy for soil stabilization in Vale da Amoreira
EcoAtivo was contacted at the beginning of September by the owner of a rural property, facing an urgent need for intervention, and it was on September 20th that we traveled to Vale de Amoreira to assess the property in question, which had been affected by the wildfires that hit the Serra da Estrela region in […]
Glyphosate and the risk to public health
Glyphosate is a herbicide that emerged in the 1970s and has been widely used in the agricultural production of food for human consumption. This herbicide was developed to control weed growth in agricultural fields. As a result, genetically modified organisms (GMOs) emerged, engineered to withstand exposure to glyphosate, making them more resistant and more productive […]
Agroforestry WorkCamp – 22nd to 25th of April
From April 22nd to 25th, 2023, EcoAtivo held its first Agroforestry WorkCamp, facilitated by our team members. In this immersive experience in syntropic agriculture, we came together to build a new agroforestry area at the Ananda Valley site. In the syntropic agriculture model, plants are distributed across the land in a way that promotes greater […]
Youth Exchange in the Ananda Valley
A space that welcomes you back to nature, the beautiful Ananda Valley is a community centred around spirituality, sustainability, and local development. In the spirit of sustainable and regenerative European cultural traditions for life in the twenty-first century, these short poems or Haiku blogs invite us to reconnect and fall in love with Mother Nature. […]