GENSEN's mission is to promote:

Explanations and links:

1) About a 3rd of the worlds' people live unsustainably in extreme poverty.The most widely shared development targets for our generation are the Millenium Development Goals. University research should be near the problems it researches..

2) Sustainable local development, cultural protection and appropriate modernization, as a part of the Global Ecovillage Network

2) Sustainable local development strategies support us in adaptating Ecovillage Design Education to Senegal's villages.

3) African solidarity, in a modern context, integrating African best practices with those of international businesses to the benefit of both

3) The statements on African solidarity on this site reflect the experience of our egalitarian cross-cultural organization over the past six years, and are a research focus.

4) The rediscovery and reappropriation of Africa's wisdom traditions, as expressed in written and oral literature and in the warmth, beauty and grace of village life.

4) This section reflects the experience of some of our modern international and local intellectual staff, interns and students who discover What we have left behind and how we can reclaim it in Africa .