• How to create a new perception of reality (aisthesis) that enables us to see things and events in their interrelated settings?
   
• How do we generate individual and collective motivation in order to come to action for the needed ecological and social transformation?
   
• In which ways are the strive for socio-economic justice and the ecological transformation interrelated? 

We can learn to live in harmony within ourselves and with our environment, if we get to a deeper perception and unbiased motivation to act sustainably. Many people (especially indigenous cultures in the forests) do still have a mentality we can learn from. In modern sciences this is being taken up by fascinating research about the life (and sensitivity) of plants and animals: Plants and animals are not objects to our disposal but co-beings, and we humans share our life with them. What does this mean for our communication with other forms of life, and for the development of our technologies which are not tools for using and exploiting nature in destructive ways, but instruments for sharing with nature the fundamental resources of life. 

• First we want to enable our students as decision makers of the future to understand the mental condition and social restrictions as well as opportunities to master the ecological turn.
   
• Second we want to enlarge our network among universities and strengthen our ties with them and with research institutions around the globe in order to make the contribution of ULP to the transformative processes in view of the ecological turn viable.

In order to foster these goals, the Online School will bring eminent scholars together so as to inspire the participants to test creative ways of thinking, rethinking, stimulating appropriate emotions and organize action.

The 2025 Online School will focus on the concepts, science and practice of what is being called PERMA culture and how Perma-Culture relates to Spiritual Ecology. What is Perma-Culture? And how it can be implemented locally but within a global perspective so that sufficiency, justice and ecological balance are achieved?

Within the framework of our previously tested scheme of “Basis-Method-Effect” the online School will follow an educational structure on three levels:

1. Awareness and Consciousness 
   An Introduction to Spiritual Ecology and Consciousness Development
    
2. Healing the Planet
   Fundamentals, Concepts and Models for a sustainable economic and social life-style  Including Perma-Culture and underlying principles - how they relate to Spiritual Ecology and how they might offer means to foster the ecological transformation on the mental level
    
3. Examples of Science and Technology in Action
   Applying Spiritual Ecology and Perma-Culture to mitigate challenges and foster transformation
   (Including group projects to create action) 

We will discuss the concepts of socio-economic justice in the light of examples from PERMA culture and shall develop our own projects on the basis of these findings and insights.

1. Seminal lectures by outstanding scholars and champions of ecological change will start processes of rethinking with focus on the topics mentioned.
    
2. Successful Projects of PERMA culture will be presented and discussed in the light of the quest for socio-economic justice and environmental transformation.
    
3. Virtual projects inspired by (2) will be worked out as group papers, taking the general perceptions gained from these projects and applying their core motivation to new local projects which could be worked out in the vicinity and environment of our students. 
    
4. Under the tuition of experienced professors and alumni of our previous Winter Schools the papers will be made examples for careful study and blueprints for further action in these fields.
    
5. The papers will be evaluated by a team of scholars.