Ökográf Egyesület

description of organisation

Ecograf Association was founded in 2012 by the informal group of ReArt workshop-group. The mission of Ecograf is to promote the sustainable and environmental urban and rural lifestyle with creative recycling art, non-formal educational workshops, community development, and events. Our main goal is to promote the local product, local food, and healthy lifestyle, share economy; keep the natural, built, gastronomically, agricultural, social and cultural values, and traditions. Our target group is mostly youngsters from 12 to 30 years, but we work with older and younger people as well. The Ecograf Association has venues in Pécs (city with 150 000 inhabitants). In Pécs city - we manage the open community lifestyle and creative space. The Association organizes several recycling creative art, environmental and global education workshop. Workshops we have done: Sewing, herbal knowledge, handmade cosmetics, creative recycling workshops. We organize clothes exchange and garage market and presentations with invited guests in the topic of sustainable social and environment. We are self entrepreneurs, one of the member is doing ecodesign clothes and jewelleries under ’Licorice’ and Polá.Polá brand. Ecograf Association also cooperates with NGO’s working with gipsy communities. We are open to participating in creative, environmental protection, urban development, art, landart, recycling, non-formal education projects, and training. We would host volunteers who would like to work with us and interested for our initiatives.