<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><br><div dir="ltr"><i style="font-size:13px;line-height:15px;background-color:rgb(250,250,250);font-family:Verdana,Arial,Tahoma,Calibri,Geneva,sans-serif">I hope it can be of your interest</i><br>




<p style="text-align:left"><span style="font-family:Arial" lang="EN-GB"><i style="line-height:15px;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(250,250,250);font-family:Verdana,Arial,Tahoma,Calibri,Geneva,sans-serif">Please spread the word</i><br>





</span></p><p style="text-align:center" align="center"><span style="font-family:Arial" lang="EN-GB"><br></span></p><p style="text-align:center" align="center"><span style="font-family:Arial" lang="EN-GB">NEW!  Funded places on
La Boa residential courses</span></p>

<p style="text-align:center" align="center"><span style="font-family:Arial" lang="EN-GB">all tuition, accommodation,
food and travel costs</span></p>

<p style="text-align:center" align="center"><span style="font-family:Arial" lang="EN-GB">Loadbearing Strawbale
Building</span></p>

<p style="text-align:center" align="center"><span style="font-family:Arial" lang="EN-GB">&</span></p>

<p style="text-align:center" align="center"><span style="font-family:Arial" lang="EN-GB">Natural Finishes - Lime
renders and Clay plasters</span></p>

<p style="text-align:center" align="center"><span style="font-family:Arial" lang="EN-GB">with Stefano Soldati, Bee
Rowan & guest tutors</span></p>

<p style="text-align:center" align="center"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN-GB">Grundtvig European Funding </span><span style="font-family:Arial" lang="EN-GB"></span></p>

<p style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN-GB">For European Union members</span></p>

<p style="text-align:center" align="center"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN-GB">Application Deadline :  30th April</span></p>

<p style="text-align:center" align="center"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN-GB">Please pass this information onto your European networks and friends</span></p>

<p><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN-GB">7 day Strawbale Building ‘Build a loadbearing studio in a week’</span></b></p>

<p style="margin-left:72pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN-GB">           •</span><span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN-GB">         </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN-GB">Dates  September
23^rd to 30^th 2013</span></p>

<p><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN-GB">7 day course in ‘Natural Finishes - Clay & Lime Plastering’</span></b></p>

<p style="margin-left:72pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN-GB">           •</span><span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN-GB">       </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN-GB">Dates  28^th
May to 5^th April 2014</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>

<p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN-GB">If you are a trainer, teacher or workshop facilitator in Europe and want
to learn about effective teaching practices as well as natural building methods,
you can apply for European funding for the above new courses. The teaching
methods will be a fusion of those of Italian Permaculture teacher and strawbale
trainer Stefano Soldati, and Bee Rowan, of UK based strawbuild, previously Head
of Training for amazonails. Funding opportunities exist if you live in a
European Union country, outside of Italy. All course costs, travel,
accommodation and food will be covered, but you must apply to your own
in-country agency by the 30^th April. We may be able to help you with
making an application.</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>

<p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN-GB">To apply,
contact the main data base at </span></p>

<p style="text-align:justify"><span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,254)" lang="EN-US"><a href="http://ec.europa.eu/education/programmes/llp/national_en.html" target="_blank">http://ec.europa.eu/education/programmes/llp/national_en.html</a></span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,108)" lang="EN-US"> </span></p>







<p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN-GB">and follow
the link to your own country agency.  Then give your agency a ring if you
have any questions – they are usually pretty helpful and want to assist you in
getting funded placements.  Each country agency has slightly different
criteria, but they all generally require that you are part of a group or
organisation that works with adult learners in some capacity.  You will also need to give them a costs
breakdown for (a) the course, (b) accommodation and food, and (c) for
travel.  If successful, it is likely your whole costs will be covered.</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>

<p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(32,35,253)" lang="EN-GB">Although the above courses don’t yet have a database
reference number, you can still apply at this stage.   As soon as we
have the reference number we will put this up on the website and circulate it
around.</span></p>

<p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>

<p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN-GB">Please let your contacts across Europe know about this great funding and
learning opportunity!!</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN-GB">contact us for details</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial">Stefano:  </span><span style="font-family:Arial" lang="EN-US"><a href="mailto:casadipaglia@hotmail.com" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10pt;color:rgb(0,0,153)" lang="IT">casadipaglia@hotmail.com</span></a></span><span style="font-family:Arial">, </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial"><a href="http://www.laboa.org" target="_blank">www.laboa.org</a></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial"></span></p>







<p><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN-GB">Bee:  </span><span style="font-family:Arial" lang="EN-US"><a href="mailto:bee@strawbuild.org" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10pt;color:rgb(0,0,153)" lang="EN-GB">bee@strawbuild.org</span></a></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN-GB"></span></p>







<p><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN-GB">Angela: <a href="mailto:angimes3@gmail.com" target="_blank">angimes3@gmail.com</a></span></p><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br clear="all"></font></span><br clear="all">
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