Local Hosts

We’re deeply grateful to be collaborating with the local host team Ecovisio, a grasroot organization founded in 1999 and a part of our network for a long time. Their work focuses around six key areas (climate, agrifood, waste, communities, education, enterpreneurship), reflecting their growth from environmentalism to sustainable development.

By linking these six areas in a holistic approach centered around people, they aim to achieve their vision of working together instead of alone, and by empowering each other instead of judging, to reach a critical mass and create impactful change for a better change, and bring systemic change. 

Festival Statement

MitOst and also the MitOst Festival do not exclude anyone because of their national background and will therefore remain open to all its members. However, we do acknowledge that the war escalated by Russia into Ukrainian territories makes a lot of relationships within the MitOst cosmos difficult or even impossible to maintain. We will not mediate nor engage anyone in dialogue. The Festival relies on the respectful engagement and sensitivity of all our present network members. Focusing on Resilient Communities in Times of Uncertainty, we will be looking actively at the Ukrainian cause  and continue our efforts to support Ukraine also through the presence of our Ukraine Solidarity Fund in Maribor.

As a result of many conversations and consultations of MitOst members, we understood that the Festival as network gathering is needed this year not despite but because of the war and the difficulties our communities are going through. We want to create space for togetherness, support resilience building and, in this way, strengthen our network that is and will be facing challenges now and in the near future. We also decided to keep the name MitOst Festival because of its brand, which implies trust and values by which we operate.

Theme of the Festival

[to be updated]

No Members’ Assembly during this Festival 

The Member’s Assembly will not be happening during the Festival, but will take place as a virtual meeting on 13 November, 2025. All MitOst Members will be invited to join in the Member’s Assembly in due time.