Aldeias do Xisto
Aldeias do Xisto is a territorial network of 28 schist villages in central Portugal, managed by ADXTUR, offering sustainable tourism, nature…
Nature-based Learning
Lessons the land teaches best: forest-school days at Bosque do Pisco near Estoril, hands-on stays at Terra Alta near Sintra, and living classrooms like Quinta Vale da Lama. Learning by doing, outdoors.
Projects in this focus
AlgarvianRoots
AlgarvianRoots is an ecotourism company based in Silves, Algarve, offering guided hikes, e-bike tours, birdwatching and cultural workshops t…
Oriolus Ecotours
Oriolus Ecotours is a Porto-based ecotourism company offering guided birdwatching, wildlife and nature photography tours across the Douro an…
Feel Sustainable
Feel Sustainable is a Portuguese project blending sustainability, Feng Shui and spirituality to design nature-based experiences, tourism str…
Cooperativa Ser Natureza
Cooperativa Ser Natureza is a project in Terroso, Póvoa de Varzim, dedicated to reconnecting people with nature and other species through ed…
TERRA Associação de Educação Integral do Minho
TERRA is a non-profit association in Alvarães, Viana do Castelo, offering nature-based, integral education for children through daily activi…
Eco Life Experience
Eco Life Experience is a sustainable eco-tourism and education platform based in Sintra, Portugal, offering workshops, reconnection activiti…
Ceiba Permacultura
Ceiba Permacultura is a permaculture education and consultancy initiative based in Vila Nova de Famalicão, Portugal, running courses, worksh…
Enraizar - Associação de Aprendizagem Comunitária
Enraizar is a non-profit Learning Community in Santo Isidoro, Mafra, that supports children and families through a nature-based, participato…
Casa das Palmeiras
Casa das Palmeiras is a sustainable rural tourism farmhouse in Gandufe, Mangualde, featuring a pedagogical farm, animal-assisted experiences…
Isatour Ecotourism
Isatour is a Biosphere-certified rural accommodation and tourism activity provider located in Adsamo, Vouzela, within the Vouga-Caramulo Nat…
K-Evolution
K-Evolution is a Portuguese non-profit association founded in 2013 that promotes sustainability, citizenship, and entrepreneurship through e…
Sementes - Núcleo de Capacitação Pessoal e Comunitária
Sementes is a Centre for Support to Home Education (Centro de Apoio ao Ensino Doméstico) in Torres Novas, Portugal, offering a regenerative,…
Bem da Terra
Bem da Terra is a sustainability education space in Portugal offering permaculture design, sensory walks, a food forest and workshops that r…
Bosque do Pisco
Bosque do Pisco is a nature and arts space in São João do Estoril offering playgroups, family workshops, holiday programmes and holistic eve…
Associação Margem Esquerda do Guadiana (AMEG)
AMEG is a nonprofit environmental association dedicated to raising awareness of the natural heritage along the left bank of the Guadiana riv…
Pé Descalço
Pé Descalço is a nature-based learning center in Porto de Mós, Portugal, offering school visits, traditional workshops, weekly community gat…
Grupo de Aprendizagem Livre
Grupo de Aprendizagem Livre is a Waldorf-inspired educational community for homeschooled teenagers in Colares, Sintra, combining academic co…
Novas Descobertas Association
Novas Descobertas Association is a non-profit based near Lagos, Algarve, offering year-round educational and regenerative programs that conn…
Terra Alta Permaculture
Terra Alta Permaculture is an off-grid permaculture education and research centre located in a protected valley near Sintra, Portugal, offer…
Aldeia do Vale
Aldeia do Vale is an agroecological and permaculture project located between Sintra and Mafra, Portugal, offering courses, workshops, and pr…
Biovilla Sustentabilidade
Biovilla Sustentabilidade is a sustainable development cooperative located on the Herdade de Pinhal Basto in Palmela, Portugal, combining na…
Re.Rural – Centro Co.Re
Re.Rural – Centro Co.Re is a Rural Learning Centre based in the Transition Village of São Luís, Odemira, dedicated to regenerating rural com…
Nature-based learning in Portugal
Forest school arrived here late and grew fast, helped by a climate that makes outdoor days possible most of the year and by families who moved to the countryside and then had to answer the schooling question.
Folha Verde runs bilingual natural education in the Benfeita valley near Arganil. Novas Descobertas works with children year-round near Lagos. Biovilla teaches on an estate in Palmela within reach of Lisbon, and Faia Brava takes school groups onto rewilded land in the Côa.
Some are alternative schools, some are an extension of a farm or a reserve, and the legal shape varies as much as the pedagogy, worth asking early. Related focuses: sustainability in schools, community education and eco-tourism and experiential learning. Dated programmes appear on our events calendar.