Critical Concrete
Critical Concrete is a non-profit cultural association in Porto, founded in 2015, that teaches and researches social and sustainable archite…
Community Education
Learning that happens in public: Novas Descobertas in the Algarve, the arts-and-sustainability NGO Quinta das Relvas, and city-based movements like Circular Economy Portugal. Knowledge shared, not sold.
Projects in this focus
Benfazer
Benfazer is a non-profit association in Portugal promoting sustainable, ethical living through social justice, environmental and animal welf…
ABAE – Associação Bandeira Azul da Europa
ABAAE (Associação Bandeira Azul de Ambiente e Educação) is a national non-profit environmental NGO that runs recognised programmes such as B…
AltogaGreen - Soluções Ecológicas e Lúdicas
AltogaGreen is a Lisbon-based company bringing together three initiatives — Ludicenter, Educativa, and Ecocenter — that combine playful educ…
OTSA – Observatório do Turismo Sustentável dos Açores
OTSA is the Sustainable Tourism Observatory of the Azores, a non-profit association founded in 2006 by the Regional Government, the Azores T…
Alimentação Saudável e Sustentável (ABAAE)
An educational project by ABAAE, run within Portugal's Eco-Schools Programme, that gives schools tools, challenges and information to encour…
Bambual Portugal
Bambual Portugal is a publishing house in Arruda dos Vinhos that focuses on books about regeneration, sustainability, ancestral wisdom and a…
Cooperativa Ser Natureza
Cooperativa Ser Natureza, in Terroso, Póvoa de Varzim, works to reconnect people with nature and other species through education, health and…
TERRA Associação de Educação Integral do Minho
TERRA is a non-profit association in Alvarães, Viana do Castelo, founded in 2016. It offers nature-based, integral education for children th…
Eco Life Experience
A sustainable eco-tourism and education platform in Sintra offering workshops, reconnection activities and eco-village experiences that prom…
Ceiba Permacultura
A permaculture education and consultancy initiative based in Vila Nova de Famalicão, Portugal, running courses, workshops and community gard…
Enraizar - Associação de Aprendizagem Comunitária
Enraizar is a non-profit Learning Community in Santo Isidoro, Mafra, that supports children and families through nature-based, participatory…
K-Evolution
K-Evolution is a Portuguese non-profit association, founded in 2013, that promotes sustainability, citizenship and entrepreneurship through …
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. It offers children of mixed ages a…
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…
Transitar
Transitar is a Portuguese environmental association based in Lisbon, and the first in Portugal to bring internationally recognised sustainab…
Bosque do Pisco
A nature and arts space in a small forest inside a quinta in São João do Estoril, with playgroups, family workshops, holiday programmes and …
Associação Margem Esquerda do Guadiana (AMEG)
AMEG is a nonprofit environmental association that works to raise awareness of the natural heritage on the left bank of the Guadiana river i…
Pé Descalço
Pé Descalço is a nature-based learning centre in Porto de Mós, Portugal, offering school visits, traditional workshops, weekly community gat…
Grupo de Aprendizagem Livre
A Waldorf-inspired educational community for homeschooled teenagers in Colares, Sintra, combining academic content with art and experiences …
Raíz Circular
A sustainability and circular economy consultancy in Évora, Portugal, that guides organisations through diagnosis, strategic planning, imple…
Quinta das Relvas
Quinta das Relvas is a non-profit NGO on a historic farm in Branca, Portugal, running non-formal education in the arts and sustainability th…
Novas Descobertas Association
A non-profit near Lagos, Algarve, running educational and regenerative programmes all year that connect people with nature, community and th…
Terra Alta Permaculture
Terra Alta Permaculture is an off-grid permaculture education and research centre in a protected valley near Sintra, Portugal. It runs immer…
Aldeia do Vale
Aldeia do Vale is an agroecological and permaculture project between Sintra and Mafra, Portugal, with courses, workshops and practical exper…
Biovilla Sustentabilidade
Biovilla Sustentabilidade is a sustainable development cooperative on the Herdade de Pinhal Basto in Palmela, combining nature tourism, sust…
Re.Rural – Centro Co.Re
Re.Rural – Centro Co.Re is a Rural Learning Centre in São Luís, a Transition Village in Odemira. It is committed to regenerating rural commu…
Community education in Portugal
Most of the environmental knowledge in this country is not taught in universities. It is carried by associations that run field days, talks and campaigns for whoever turns up, Some predate the policies they argue about. Quercus has been at it since 1985, ALMARGEM since the late eighties in the Algarve.
The range is wide. A Rocha Portugal runs a field study centre near Portimão. GEOTA works on land-use policy out of Lisbon. Vita Nativa takes people into the Ria Formosa. Shops like Maria Granel teach as a side effect of selling.
Almost all of it is free or close to it, and almost all of it needs volunteers. Related focuses: nature-based learning, sustainability in schools and workshops and trainings. Anything with a date attached is on our events calendar.