DiscoverEU Meetup 2025

Welcome to join Globala Kronoberg’s DiscoverEU-meetup at the end of July 2025. We will spend two full days at Sweden’s first sustainable farm hostel, slowing down and enjoying the Swedish nature. On the schedule there will be canoeing, hiking, outdoor games and Sauna baths.

Not only is Ödevata hostel a beautiful place to be at, but as a sustainable facility they run their own aquaponic cultivation, produce their own bio coal and grow most of their own food. In joining our meetup you will learn more about how to live sustainably and how different methods can help us become climate positive.

During the meetup we will stay as a group 70 km outside of Växjö in the countryside of Emmaboda. Participants are accommodated for three nights in shared rooms, and two lunches lunches, three breakfasts and three dinners will be provided, plus Swedish fika in the afternoons.The Meetup will start and end in the city of Växjö, which you can easily reach by train from either Stockholm, Gothenburg or Copenhagen. We will also be offering a stop in Emmaboda on the way back to Växjö on the last day of the Meetup.

This Meetup will give you the chance to take it a little bit slower, spend plenty of time with the other participants and enjoy the magical Swedish summer. If this meet-up is for you, please sign up from the following link.

We will start the meetup by meeting up at the station in Växjö. We will there after travel by bus to the place were we will spend the rest of the meetup. Upon arrival there will be check-in, vegetarian dinner and some get-to-know activities.

The morning will start with start with a study visit in Ödevata's Aquaponic Green house, where the staff will not only tell us about the current ecofriendly systems in place, but also about Ödevatas vision to become climate positive and the steps they are taking towards it. Following that, in connection with the sustainable theme, a workshop will done on sustainability, going deeper into the topic. Vegetarian lunch will be served at midday.
In the afternoon the participants will enjoy a treasure hunt, and an optional hike in the surrounding areas before the dinner starts. Stone baked pizza will be served for dinner in the evening, and the day will end with sauna baths next to and on the nearby lake.

The morning will start with some information and workshops about EU’s youth programs, Youth engagement and the European Identity.
After the morning’s info session, a pentathlon will be done, a 5 parts competition. In teams the participants will compete with each other in classical sport branches such as sack-jumping, egg-race and Irish Christmas. Vegetarian lunch will again be served at midday.

After lunch it's time for canoeing in the nearby lakes. If good weather, we will travel to one end of the lake, and then back to the accommodation, ca 4 km. After returning from the canoeing, Swedish fika will be served in the main dining room.
The rest of the afternoon will be free, and a vegetarian barbeque dinner will be served outside around 19.00

On the last day the breakfast will be shorter than the previous days, and end at 09.15. At 09.30 the rented bus will depart back to Växjö, with a stop in Emmaboda for those who wants to take a train towards Kalmar or catch an earlier train towards Malmö/Copenhagen. The bus is expected to arrive in Växjö just before 11.00, where participants can either explore the city or continue their journey by train.