Trans-Local Learning

Description

Berkana Institute:

"Verb. Trans-local learning is a process for connecting communities who have solutions to share. These solutions, technologies and methods are carried from one place to another and take root in a new local environment. There they emerge into something different, influenced by local culture, flavor and forms.

Noun. Trans-local solutions emerge when people carry an idea from one locale to another, and then adapt and integrate ideas into local conditions and community needs. Trans-local solutions rely on the wisdom and wealth in their community, their traditions, their culture and their environment.

There are no solutions that work everywhere, therefore attempts to “scale up” fail the moment they begin. Local efforts, inspired by other local efforts, draw on their own abundant resources to create sustainable solutions designed, implemented and embraced by the community."

(https://berkana.org/our-work/sponsoring-trans-local-learning/)