What is the Diploma in Applied Permaculture Design?
The Diploma is the internationally recognized next step after completing a
(PDC) Permaculture Design Course.
The Diploma formally recognizes and accredits your practice of
permaculture.
This is particularly important for individuals who are interested in
teaching permaculture, offering permaculture services and/or developing and
running permaculture projects.
The Diploma in
Applied Permaculture Design provides recognition of a person’s ability to
apply permaculture ethics, principles and design skills to enhance local
sustainability.
This is
demonstrated through an accreditation event where the apprentice designer
presents a selection of their design work and makes a portfolio of projects and
activities available for inspection to a peer group made up of Diploma holders
and Design Course Certificate holders.
What are the
benefits?
The Diploma
offers the following benefits:
- an opportunity to develop a deeper understanding of the permaculture concepts and
- an opportunity to consciously turn the theory learnt on the Design Course into practical
- a structured approach to learning, with support from experienced mentors and designers.
It will also enable you to:
- get high quality design support and guidance for your projects
- develop skills as a reflective and sustainable learner
- increase your professional reputation and confidence as a permaculture designer
- be added to the Permaculture Association’s designers register to help attract commercial design work. (if you are registered to the
- become a lead teacher on a Permaculture Design Course
Who can do the Diploma?
Students who successfully complete the Permaculture Design Course (72h PDC)
and
You have to be a member of the Permaculture Association in there country or in the Baltics
Thanks to
organizations such as the Latvian Permaculture Association, or the NGO „Smiltenei un Latvijai” a framework of support has been developed and will help you on the
way thru the diploma.
Through the
process of accreditation, or aim is to design 10 Projects and initiate a
co-operative organization that will help to facilitate higher education in
permaculture design.
Building confidence in the individual practitioners,
credibility of sound permaculture theory and resilient networks of support for
regenerative design.
About the course
The Diploma is a
course of self-directed study that takes a minimum of two years and a maximum
of four years. During this course, you will prepare and document ten Permaculture
designs that demonstrate your ability to apply permaculture ethics and
principles and show your competence at using a range of design methods, tools
and skills. Within this two years you will have four times a 5 day training
(meeting in Latvia). Each year you will also have two meetings (via Skype) with
your Mentor, who will help you thru the process and documentation work. Within
this Diploma course time frame you have to fullfill at least 10 days of
practical work to strengthen your skills.
After all 10
permaculture projects have been documented, they will be submitted and, after
an evaluation period, the final diploma examination will take place.
This diploma
exam takes place on a weekend at which several diploma students will be
graduated.
Between 4 and 6
diploma students can be examined on such a weekend.
The first
Diploma Course has started from the 25th of June till 29th of June 2018 and occurred in Lejas Variceni close to Smiltene
The second
Diploma Course was from the 13th of August till 17th of August 2018 and occurred in Zadini close to Launkalne.
The diploma
weekends will be individually discussed.
Fees
The fees guide
is available below. We operate a flexible payment system to make it more
affordable.
If you still
think you'll struggle to find the fee, you could try crowd funding your diploma. You could
invite funders to pay part of your fees in return for a design. For
example, you could invite 10 funders to invest 80,- € each, and in return you
pledge to produce a design for them.
The costs include:
- The whole Diploma in Applied Permaculture Design
- Accommodation in our farmyard hay hotel
- Full catering (vegetarian ) 3 times per day
Here is an example for a participant from the Baltic
States:
10,- Registration
10,- Registration
600, - Euro for the first year
600, - Euro for the second year
200, - Euro for the diploma weekends
100,- Selection of 2nd tutor
15,- Print out and hand over the diploma
In total you have to pai 1525,. € over the 2 years.
The costs are to be paid per year or in monthly
installments
Important! : You commit yourself to supervising the next generation of diploma students as main or second tutor (at least 2 Students), and the course fee as a selected tutor (or second tutor) is for you. So it is possible to reduce your costs. But this is only the case when working as a tutor
(or second tutor) will be selected and completed by the next generation of graduate students.
