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<h2 id="history">History</h2> <p>GROWL was founded in 2013 by ten non-profit, research and higher education organisations under the coordination of the think-tank <a href="http://www.degrowth.org">Research & Degrowth</a>. The network build-up has been supported with a ca. €200000 grant from the <a href="/facts/Grundtvig_programme/W6NXYEEr">Grundtvig programme</a> for the period between August 2013 and July 2015.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:4" href="#fn:4"><sup>4</sup></a> </p><p>In 2014, the first international thematic courses took place: </p> <ul><li>Social dimension of <a href="/facts/Agroecology/yt6SEn0V">agroecology</a></li> <li>Solidarity & Cooperative Economy</li> <li>Mental Infrastructures</li> <li><a href="/facts/Local_economics/0BczG0Fs">Local Economic</a> Alternatives</li></ul> <h2 id="philosophy">Philosophy</h2> <p>The network departs from the acknowledgment of major shortcomings of contemporary education institutions in providing adequate knowledge and skills required to critically address the problems of <a href="/facts/Limits_to_growth/Qdz05kCU">limits to growth</a> and engage in the transformations towards a <a href="/facts/Post_growth/4g5ofSbU">post growth</a> and <a href="/facts/Sustainability/9oYH9mAs">sustainable</a> society.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:5" href="#fn:5"><sup>5</sup></a> </p><p>The network relies on the theoretical foundations of <a href="/facts/Social_constructivism/cxjjul8l">social constructivism</a> and the concept of <a href="/facts/Peer_learning/rC2Ml2K3">peer learning</a> based on <a href="/facts/Communities_of_practice/gMgDQYX6">communities of practice</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:6" href="#fn:6"><sup>6</sup></a> </p> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>GROWL website, URL: http://co-munity.net/growl <a href="http://co-munity.net/growl" target="_blank">http://co-munity.net/growl</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>Kallis, Giorgos, Kerschner, Christian and Martinez-Alier, Joan. The Economics of Degrowth. Ecological Economics 84: 172-180, 2012 <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>Baptista, Gualter. Learning and building knowledge for degrowth: communities of practice and peer production across scales and beyond roles, in Fourth International Conference on Degrowth for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity, Leipzig, 2014. URL: https://co-munity.net/conference2014/scientific-papers/3734 <a href="https://co-munity.net/conference2014/scientific-papers/3734" target="_blank">https://co-munity.net/conference2014/scientific-papers/3734</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:4"><p>HNA. Gemeinschaft erleben, 24.9.2013, URL: http://www.hna.de/lokales/witzenhausen/gemeinschaft-erleben-3130179.html <a href="http://www.hna.de/lokales/witzenhausen/gemeinschaft-erleben-3130179.html" target="_blank">http://www.hna.de/lokales/witzenhausen/gemeinschaft-erleben-3130179.html</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:5"><p>Oya. Degrowth wächst, 2014, URL: http://www.oya-online.de/news/719-degrowth_waechst.html Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine <a href="http://www.oya-online.de/news/719-degrowth_waechst.html" target="_blank">http://www.oya-online.de/news/719-degrowth_waechst.html</a> <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:6"><p>"Philosophy in group GROWL | co-munity". <a href="http://co-munity.net/growl/about/philosophy" target="_blank">http://co-munity.net/growl/about/philosophy</a> <a href="#fnref:6" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>