Green Habito is a network focused on promoting sustainable habits and environmental awareness, green growth, and active citizenship through education and collaboration, particularly through educational initiatives. We strive to create a resilient, inclusive and democratic society where every citizen is empowered to contribute to a sustainable future, fostering a harmonious balance between human progress and planetary health.

Vision: world where individuals, communities and nations actively embrace sustainable habits, environmental stewardship and green growth as integral parts of their daily lives.

Founded in 2019 with headquarters in Helsinki, Finland. The network now includes 42 national and regional umbrellas and association from 37 EU member states and Iceland, Norway and United Kingdom. Network is supported by European Commission, Nordic Council and national project programms.

Mission: To build a strong, visible, and resilient civil society movement.

Active participation in sustainable development and environmental activities empowers individuals to freely express themselves in support of sustainable development and promotes social cohesion and inclusion, green growth and active citizenship with an added value for humanistic and democratic values.

Our values are the foundation of our work and guide our actions as we strive to promote sustainable development, environmental awareness, and active citizenship. These values reflect our commitment to creating a just, inclusive, and resilient society.

  • Respect for International Human Rights Standards. We are committed to upholding and promoting international human rights in all our activities, ensuring dignity, equality, and justice for all.
  • Independence. We maintain our autonomy as a network, ensuring that our actions and decisions are guided by our mission and values, and are not subject to undue influence.
  • Transparency. We operate with openness and honesty, ensuring that our actions, decisions, and processes are clear and accessible to all stakeholders.
  • Inclusion. We strive to create a diverse and inclusive movement that values every voice, fosters social cohesion, and ensures that no one is left behind
  • Cooperation. We believe in the power of collaboration, working together with individuals, communities, and organisations to achieve shared goals and amplify our impact.
  • Empowerment. We believe in equipping individuals and communities with the knowledge, skills, and resources to become active agents of change, driving sustainable development in their daily lives.
  • Accountability. We take responsibility for our actions and decisions, ensuring that we deliver on our commitments and remain answerable to our members, partners, and the communities we serve.
  • Solidarity. We stand together with individuals and communities, supporting one another in the pursuit of sustainable development and environmental justice.
  • Participation. We encourage active involvement and engagement from all stakeholders, ensuring that everyone has a voice in shaping a sustainable future.
  • Innovation. We support creative and forward-thinking approaches to address global challenges, fostering new ideas and solutions that drive sustainable development.

Our aims include empowering individuals and communities to participate in environmental activities, fostering social cohesion, inclusion, and democratic:

  • Influencing how Europe and European nations think and act about active participation in sustainable development and green growth
  • Facilitating opportunities for cross national collaborative working
  • Supporting our members to increase their knowledge, skills and capacities
  • Facilitating opportunities for sharing both best practice and innovative approaches to active participation in achievement of UN SDGs
  • Providing a platform for collaboration and research
  • Establish European Network “Green Habiro” as a strong civil society movement, visible and resilient network
  • Building strong membership

By working together we increase knowledge of NGO representatives, young adults and others stakeholders working also with vulnerable groups about UN SDGs in the context of globalized world, as well as enhance their capacity to be agents of change and their engagement towards achieving greener and sustainable lifestyles in their daily activities.

Created thematic international network of European actors will increase the competence of its members and partner organizations on sustainable development, green growth, peace and security. Network also contributes to other cross-cutting themes of the UN Agenda 2030.

In addition, network aims to empower and emphasize the role of NGOs as active and important change makers in the field of sustainable development by increasing their capacity and co-operation opportunities.

The specific objectives and key activities of our network :

  1. To strengthen the cross-border contact, knowledge exchange and contact supported through a development of communication platform www.greenhabito.eu
  2. To promote trans-national skills, competences and know-how through courses and conferences
  3. To exchange and disseminate key national documentation and surveys and initiate new transnational research
  4. To develop new pilot work and support innovative approaches and cross-border activity
  5. To initiate new flagship events including Annual Network Conference, support for the European Week for Sustainable Development and initiating the CSOs Annual Green Habito Award.
  6. To test a new management model; by implementing a network secretariat with transversal staff functions and five clusters of transnational activity teams.
  7. To strengthen the sector’s capacity to cooperate internationally
  8. To engage more national and regional associations from more EU member states and programme countries, especially from Nordic, Western and Southern Europe to be members of the Green Habito Network.