LIVE GTS meeting for European members in the week of November 3-9 2025

General Discussions
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Dear European GTS friends and enthusiasts,

We are planning a live European GTS meeting to happen sometime in October or November in 2025, and would love to see who might be interested to join the meeting. At this point we are only gathering information to estimate the interest and the need for it, and we will make further decisions based on your answers. You are welcome to express yourself as you feel or think would be the best to make this meeting happen.

Proposed venue in Croatia: ZMAG (ZMAG Green Network of Activist Groups )

  • 20 minutes from Zagreb airport in the forest
  • ZMAG is a recycled educational centre with gardens, a seed bank, an event space and accommodation (15 people in common sleeping space + 5 more in smaller huts and tree house, and a huge forest for camping fans)
  • Price: 380 euro / day for the whole group (15 people) includes:
    - renting the venue with everything included for the whole group (sleeping, using kitchen and meeting space, projector, chairs, outdoor space, etc)
    - Food (three meals per day + chef)

Final price per person per day depends on how many of us will participate, but roughly expected cost for accommodation, venue, food and other small logistical costs included would be around 25 euro per day per person (calculated based on 15 people)

Individual travel arrangements to and from Croatia are not included in this calculation, only local travel to and from the airport and short trips to visit seed banks and farms.

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Fill in the questionnaire here: live GTS meeting 2025 | Framaforms.org

Expected response before: February 16 2025.

Thank you for cooperation! Let’s co-create an unforgettable event.

Please tag anyone we may have missed!
Big thanks to @stephane_rave on co-creating the questionnaire :slight_smile:

@malterod , @Justin , @JesseI , @Tanjaeskildsen , @Holly_S , @Julied , @WojciechG , @mtttthwww_vdp , @Hugo , @Susanwakeman , @ThomasPicard , @isabelle , @Shao , @red , @mare.silba , @Jayne.oxtons , @ChrisF , @PippaChapman , @JaneMulberry , @seedsaver , @Rosma , @Han , @Soeren , @polarca , @Thulahn , @Laura , @Pog , @Jacek , @Richard , @Txolillo , @artsyhonker , @marcela_v , @Chloe.G , @Joran , @lupinaster , @Ruediger , @eArthur , @Logan , @stephane_rave , @Nancy , @Arnopikar , @Dave , @Ricardo , @Geoffrey , @AbrahamPalma , @Millefolium , @Clea , @Markus , @Lisa , @Marieke , @Hermann.Werner , @PaulG , @aleba , @rsalzman , @Sebastien , @Bruno , @sheroo , @Hekseringen , @julia.dakin , @Joseph_Lofthouse

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I volunteer for the treehouse!!
Wonderful work Marcela!

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Thank you for your participation at questionnaire it will help us to build a program that best meets your expectations and to the success of an unforgettable event ! :slightly_smiling_face:

Fill in the questionnaire here : live GTS meeting 2025 | Framaforms.org
Expected response before: February 16 2025.

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I managed to create an account at framaforms. But if I click your link it doesn’t open that form. Asks me to reconnect, which I then do, then it doesn’t open the form still.
I can however look for forms. Does it have a name or number I can copy paste?

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I forgot to mention for everyone, you don’t need to create an account to complete the questionnaire.
You just answer the questions and validate at the end.:wink:

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I filled in the questionnaire. Thank you for structuring this @marcela_v and @stephane_rave

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I am on phone. If I click your link it goes not to a questionnaire.

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@Hugo you need to click on the link in the first post, the one from Marcela. Link in Stephane’s post I think is just for the application in general, not from our questionnaire.

I’ve quoted Marcela’s link below

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oh sorry ! thank you for seeing this error Mare :grinning:
link corrected

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Solved. Thank you!

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Don’t forget to come and take the questionnaire now that you have found out how it works :laughing:

There are 6 days left, to give your opinion and help us build this great event… :wink:

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Thank you Sebastien and Laura for these new answers and your willingness to participate :slightly_smiling_face:

so that there is no worry for others the journey between the airport and the place in the countryside will not be done by public transport because it must not exist but local people will be mobilized to take us to a good destination.

We will find a way to make group departures from Zagreb according to our respective arrivals.

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Thank you Stephane for keeping us all updated :slight_smile:

Regarding local transport - you don’t need to worry about it. We will organize local transport based on arrivals and departures to Croatia, as well as we will organize personal cars for any trips to visit farms or seed banks in a different location. And cost for that is already calculated approximately in the price that is written in the questionnaire.

Each person need to take care how to arrive to Zagreb, and how to leave from Zagreb. There are also other options for flying to Venice Treviso airport and then taking Flixbus to Zagreb. Budapest is also sometimes convenient for travels from some countries, and there is a direct train and many Flixbuses to arrive to Zagreb.

If anyone has any questions regarding Croatia in general or travel, feel free to ask :slight_smile:

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Done.

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at the moment with the answers 7 people are almost sure to come, but we could be 14 people with those who still have small doubts.

my advice: do everything for coming, the first meeting of 2024 in Antibes was extraordinary, and really created a strong european core for projects in the community! :wink:

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maybe 2 more people… :slightly_smiling_face:

We have to help logistically @polarca to get out off her iceberg :cold_face:…transportation is complex due to her geographic location

@Thomas, Maxime and Sébastien from the group Pep’s seem motivated… I count on you to motivate more them. Croatia will be more amazing than Antibes which was already amazing :grinning:

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as yesterday, maybe 2 more people… :slightly_smiling_face:

thank you @mtttthwww_vdp and @aleba, I hope you will be with us this fall ! :slightly_smiling_face:

more than 2 days for last answers…
a last huge argument for coming, the memory of a sentence by Bruno during a meal in Antibes:
“I learned more here in 5 days with this event than in 5 years on my farm” :sunglasses:

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hi the motived core ! 13 answers ! :star_struck:
first of all thank you for taking a few minutes to make us feedback that is rich in lessons to design a meeting program that meets your expectations. :smiley:

here is the general analysis of the questionnaire made by the software on multiple choice questions.

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the export with all data and the more detailed analysis is sent to @marcela_v
indeed the “Other” buttons sometimes change the vote which does not appear on these graphs.

we can do a debreefing on Tuesday night on the video conference.
Overall, the answers are quite clear except for the timing.
Many people have made a return to know the dates fast enough to block them and plan.
I think we’ll have to define that as a priority on Tuesday.

PS: a special thank you to you for this ecological awareness :pray:, many have decided not to come by plane. Although I had answered Avion on the questionnaire it made me review my position, and I found that by considering a bus I may double the travel time but this reduced the budget, eliminated all connections, and could greatly reduce my carbon impact. :green_heart:

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Nice! Looking forward to hear more details :slight_smile: .

Just a reminder that our next video meeting is at Wendesday with Anna and Julia on seed stewardship

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We have a lot of interesting answers in the questionnaire, and I am confident that when we decide on the dates, that there will be more people joining, and the year is still long, so we might get new members throughout the year to join.

So, I propose that we talk about it on Wednesday after meeting with Julia and Anna.
Then we propose some dates, everyone who answered the questionnaire can answer, and we book the place once we have the final agreement.

See you all on Wednesday!

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