1. Supplying 50+ regional catalysts with high-quality, flexible capacity building in areas that help them to increase their impact in promoting regional system change towards sustainability and resilience in the face of ecological and social crises. 2. Develop principles and best practices how to effectively support regenerative regional development through hosting trans-regional exchange between members of the target group and regular reflections in a transnational team of hosts. 3. Disseminate these principles and best practices by summarising and visualising our insights in a booklet and a poster and presenting them at two multiplier-events with 60+ participants. 4. Build a foundation for transnational cooperation to promote regenerative regional development by creating a common working basis among the project partners and strengthening the link between the organisations. 5. Develop a live transregional participatory networking format fostering transregional cooperation, mutual understanding and a shared identity. Prototype this format as a four-day event (“Fest der Regionen” = “Festival of Regions”) as a basis for future replication.
Our initial motivation to initiate “Hosting Regeneration” was to combine the expertise and experiences of our two organisations in order to support “regional catalysts” - people working in their home region as facilitators/networkers/multipliers in service of the Sustainable Development Goals: 1. In effectively increasing their impact 2. In growing their capacity to do so in a regenerative way, i.e. creating working conditions for themselves and those around them that sustain and, ideally, even increase their well-being over time. The needs of the target group we identified beforehand and which we addressed with our activities were: > High-quality capacity building, esp. about facilitation of effective teamwork and regenerative co-creation processes. > Opportunities for reflection, overcoming obstacles and gaining clarity about their next steps. > Easily accessible opportunities for networking and exchange with people doing similar work. > Inspiration for maintaining and regaining motivation when being faced with slow progress in their ventures and/or resistance by relevant stakeholders in their context.