While preparing our training, we were experiencing a terrible situation, a pandemic threatening all of us, whatever our origin, age or wealth. Most of us had the scary experience of a lock down. People were afraid, most economic activities had stopped and we were all confined inside, waiting to see what would happen next. In the meantime... Nature was blooming, the fauna and the flora seemed to do tremendously good without human beings mingling with them. In the meantime, scientists announced that they had recorded a strong decrease in the ozone hole on the Arctic. While it cannot be denied that any pandemic is a disaster, we strongly believed it would have been criminal and an insult to the victims to not grab this opportunity to reinvent our society as we know it with the proposal of sustainable models. Even before the covid-19 changed our lives, it was already clear our planet needed us to make radical changes for our own sake. Last year's assessment by the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) showed worldwide risks caused by soil degradation and fertility loss, biodiversity collapses, resource depletion and climate change. As current intensive agricultural, forest and other land-use practices are core factors of those risks, the IPBES encourages what they call Conservation agriculture, the approach to managing agro-ecosystems for improved and sustained productivity, increased profits and food security while preserving and enhancing the resource base and the environment. It is characterized by three linked principles, namely: 1) continuous minimum mechanical soil disturbance; 2) permanent organic soil cover; and 3) diversification of crop species grown in sequences and/or associations. This covers a wide range of approaches from minimum till to permaculture/”mimicking nature”. And, in fact, all over the world, innovative, economically efficient, ecologically sustainable and socially responsible projects are emerging. A growing number of them, like the partner organisations of this application, are applying Permaculture as a powerful vision and integrated design system for creating sustainable solutions in their local contexts. Permaculture integrates land, resources, people and the environment through mutually beneficial synergies – imitating the no waste, closed loop systems seen in diverse natural systems. Its three guiding ethics (earth care, people care, fair share) and the multidisciplinary toolbox that it includes offer holistic solutions to the aforementioned complex problems that are applicable in rural and urban contexts at any scale. In line with the objectives of the Erasmus + Program and the national priorities, our project aimed, in a non-formal educational format, to make Permaculture education and design more widely known and to disseminate the relevant knowledge, skills and attitudes so that a growing number of people could be inspired, regain confidence that they have the power to make positive change happen in this world and join a global community of practice that is overcoming the dead- ends highlighted by social, ecological and economic crises. In addition to the general permaculture training, we wanted to specifically insist on water management skills and rainwater harvesting. For this purpose we planned to reinforce the competences of 40 youth workers capable to put into practice the training outcomes in the projects that they are involved in and to transmit efficiently the experience and skills gained to the audiences they work with, and especially youth, young people facing work precarity or unemployment, youth from rural areas seeking employment or at an early stage of career development and to inform and sensitize young people about the environment and climate change and the challenges that result from it. Participants would experiment with a range of educational tools and methods that facilitate dialogue, living together and intercultural exchange, all of which foster key competences of youth work.