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Looking for a passionate Fundraiser

🔎 We are looking for a passionate Fundraiser to join Ktopia’s gameful multi-year mission in Education for Regenerative Food Systems and the SDGs.

🌍 Ktopia.eu is an inter-continental grassroots initiative launched in July 2025 in Europe and Africa to support the open, multi-stakeholder (including Youth) development of the fsysgame.org — a collectible trade card game in Education for Regenerative Food Systems and the Sustainable Development Goals. Our Game is being developed open-source and as an Open Educational Resource for our Commons.

Already in place:

✅ Fiscally hosted by The Social Change Nest in London ( +due diligence and policy base)

✅ Fully transparent opencollective.com/ktopia account for accountability, donations, and grant management

✅ Strong partnerships and alliances with The Jena Declaration at the UNESCO Chair on Global Understanding for Sustainability, the Conscious Food Systems Alliance (CoFSA) convened by UNDP Food Systems (UNDP), and the Catalyst Now Community of Social Innovators

✅ Strong momentum and resonance for our existing, open game prototypes

💡 What our fast growing “Project Tree” needs now:

A passionate Fundraiser / Fundraising Partner who is inspired by sustainability, food systems, education, games, regenerative futures, experimenting with new models and paths — and excited to co-create the funding journey with us.

👉 As we are pre-funding, we’re looking for someone open to a collaborative, partnership model — with the opportunity to shape our fundraising path and grow into a core paid role once funds are secured.

💚 If – after surfing our rich websites – you resonate with our values, vision and mission and want to be part of a bold Quest — together with diverse and passionate fellows on multiple continents — we’d love to connect. andre@ktopia.eu

First round within the climate education landscape

Walking up our UNESCO world heritage “Bergpark” under Hercules watchful, naked eyes. Walking towards our first Innovation Circle for the State Ministry of Agriculture and the Environment, hosted at the Forest School Kassel – a space dedicated to Education since 1926, surrounded by a forest, much, much older. Entering an agile development sprint, a temporal coop quest within our climate education landscape in the fields of . An innovation program, initiated, funded and facilitated by our innovative documenta City Stadt Kassel for the Ministry – together with a network of expert organizations in the field.


Letting 100 gut project ideas pour out of us into the middle of our “Great Circle”, then collectively point voting them down to 4 projects with 4 Team Circles. Sitting in the green grass in springtime sun beams, eating fresh baked bred, jamming ideas in our 4 Circles…walking back down town……

After an intense and fruitful first round in the Innovation Sprint, we will continue on Monday to write our concepts and Offering out. With this official procedure we will then be directly awarded, assigned, equipped with a fund and a Go! from the City Administration of our Stadt Kassel.

I am grateful to be part of the Journey – bringing my work experience, skill sets, talents and passions to the Circle, as all of our fellows do. + I bring my fresh On-Boarding bag of practices and approaches, inspired by the wonderful Conscious Food Systems Alliance, convened by UNDP Food Systems. An Alliance, I’ve gratefully and happily joined.

🌱 Joining the Climate Education Landscape Innovation Pot by the Hessian Ministry for Agriculture and the Environment, Germany

Grateful and excited to be part of a 6-month agile innovation journey, initiated by the Hessian Ministry for Agriculture and the Environment, Germany.

Starting next week at the Forest School in Kassel, I’ll join a small group of selected innovators to co-create impactful solutions with a special focus on regenerative food systems. In just two weeks, we’ll shape our ideas into a concrete development plan—and then sprint forward, supported by dedicated funding, until November.

The Climate Education Landscape is a project of the Hessian Ministry for Agriculture and the Environment. The City of Kassel, the Working Group for Nature and Environmental Education in Hesse (ANU), and the World Garden Witzenhausen are jointly implementing the project as a coordination office for Kassel and the surrounding area.

They serve as the regional points of contact. The initiative is part of the Hesse Climate Plan in the area of action titled “Education and Research.”

The goal is to embed climate protection and sustainability structurally within local educational landscapes for Education for Sustainable Development (ESD). To this end, the full range of local stakeholders from education, municipalities, administration, business, civil society, and climate protection should be involved. The initiation phase of the Climate Education Landscapes is planned to run until mid-2028.