ESC: Ecology and education for change. Community building

OPEN MIND was created in 1998 in Sofia. Main objectives: - To promote skills and inspiration for sustainable and ecological lifestyle, building a community, sharing these values and inspired by nature. - To apply and promote innovative methods and practices for education in the sphere of formal and non formal education - To safeguard Bulgarian historical, cultural and spritual values, traditions and crafts. - To assist the creation of European cultural identity. - To promote volunteering . Since 2008 OPEN MIND has started a Permaculture demonstration center in the town of Shipka where educational activities are organized, in 2011 a book on permaculture has been translated into Bulgarian and published. Since 2014 OPEN MIND is cooperating with the local Community center and other institutions for the attraction of young people to Shipka, improvement of bonds between people, for building a community of aware people and organizing activities for preservation of the authentic skills, crafts, traditions; In 2019 OPEN MIND has created and educational center , named Golden Apple for children aged 5 to 11 years at the town of Kazanlak. Target groups 1 - children and youth (4-18), in their role of future citizens, who are to develop and add for the global good. Together with them are their parents (18+), who take care for the (conscious or unconscious) for the acquired knowledge of their children to remain permanent and developing. - target group 2 - older citizens above 50