Participation Guidelines

Each year Ecotopia Biketour aims to create an ecomobile community connecting people from all over the world into clumsy, joyful, slow, funny, unpredictable, sunny, caring group of people.

Because we all have different visions of life and diverse personalities, biketour developed a set of basic values, which helps all of us to create a bit more similar expectations from this project. Proposing different ideas and sharing diverse insights is always appreciated, but please keep in mind these basic values of the biketour. If you deeply disagree with one or some of the following points, you should reconsider your decision to join us.

• On biketour we will not tolerate sexism, racism, fascism, homophobia, xenophobia,anti-semitic and any other discriminatory practices. If you uphold any kind of these practices, please do not join this tour.
• Biketour is a project which promotes sustainable way of life by cycling, doing press work, participating in/organizing actions. We participate in the actions organized by local groups and also plan and implement various actions ourselves.
• We choose to support local farmers/small shops because industrial farming and supermarket chains produce many social and environmental problems. Please buy food in small shops or directly from local farmers! Small is beautiful.
• We try to reduce, reuse and recycle. Please reduce your waste as much as possible – do not take many plastic while shopping, try to buy food without wrapping, try not buy canned food. Keep in mind while shopping that we want to leave as little as possible for future archaeologists ;).
• Biketour is a non-hierarchical community, where everyone is responsible for the making the tour a success. Decisions are made and problems are discussed in the morning/evening circle by practising consensus. Many people who come to biketour are not experienced with working this way, so please bear in mind that it works best if people concentrate on the discussion and make constructive proposals for concret problems. We try to keep a balance between working effectively as a group and respecting everyone's personal preferences and freedom.
• Biketour aims to provide opportunities for non-formal education. Here as well, everyone is encouraged to take and active role into making this aspect of the biketour a success. If you think that you could give workshops on specific topic or skills sharing, you are more than welcome to do so. Try to be open and learn from everyone you meet.
• All food in biketour is vegetarian, but we will provide vegan, raw food and other diet options. Meat eaters are welcome, but there will be no meat option during any common biketour meal.
• Although biketour participants may not always agree with certain social norms in countries which we pass through, participants are asked to conduct themselves in a way which will not bring negative consequences for the local organisers.

Come and enjoy! Cycle, discover, create, laugh, discuss, play, share and cuddle! We are all going to create this joyful summer experience together.