The Fund set out to distribute € 15,000 among small Degrowth-focused events around the world, with a maximum of € 1,000 per event. We received 34 applications, four of which were immediately rejected because their overall budget was above the limit or because they received money from the Support Group this year. That left us with 31 applications, which our team of nine volunteers evaluated using the previously published criteria. Each event was reviewed by three evaluators, the scores averaged, and the events ranked by this score.
Now that the selection is over, and after communicating the results to the participants and preparing our documents for publication, we are finally able to publicly announce the results. The list of events chosen for funding is:
- The Balochistan Degrowth Jirga: Reclaiming Indigenous Commons & Ecological Care, Youth Association for Development (YAD) Pakistan
- The Soul of Nairobi: Reimagining the City Together, NtuLea Africa
- World Social Forum - Financialisation of Life: Resisting False Solutions, Debt for Climate (D4C)
- Energy beyond growth in Greece: from extraction to autonomy, Energy Resistance Autonomia - Greece
- fruits of our labor: rural degrowth symposium, Ekopraxis Pilipinas
- Anti.Oppression Workshops, Decrecimientos Mx
- Rethinking Youth Employment in Kenya: A Degrowth Dialogue, green students initiative
- JTI Slow Conversations: "All we need is growth, or not?", Just Transition Indonesia
- Degrowth Pub Quiz Tour, Nerast
- SAP - Situated arts towards post-growth, Arraiga
- Artistic, Cultural & Gastronomic Residencies on Ecuadorâs Coast, Mama Zamba
- Less Media, More Meaning: Building Degrowth Movement-Media Together, The Sufficiency and Wellbeing Magazine
- Degrowth Café, Degrowth Copenhagen
- Alternative Worlds, Tribe-X
- How do we take on the future? Post-growth Policy Lab, Working group involving: Collettivo Numega, Piattaforma Post-Crescita (Italian post-growth platform), Movimento Decrescita Felice
You can find more information on them, and on all applications, on this spreadsheet. Some of these events are already taking place, so we encourage you to check their Instagram or the IDN's account for updates.
We would like to thank all participants for the effort that they put into their applications, the members from the Events Fund Team for their commitment and work, and last but not least, the Degrowth Conference Support Group for providing the money to finance the events.
As with the last event, we are open to comments, suggestions and critiques that help us make the next edition of the Fund better than previous ones, so feel free to reach out to us through info@degrowth.network.