AltogaGreen - Soluções Ecológicas e Lúdicas
AltogaGreen is a Lisbon-based company bringing together three initiatives — Ludicenter, Educativa, and Ecocenter — that combine playful educ…
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
Alimentação Saudável e Sustentável (ABAAE)
Alimentação Saudável e Sustentável is an educational initiative by ABAAE, run within Portugal's Eco-Schools Programme, providing schools wit…
Eco Life Experience
Eco Life Experience is a sustainable eco-tourism and education platform based in Sintra, Portugal, offering workshops, reconnection activiti…
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…
K-Evolution
K-Evolution is a Portuguese non-profit association founded in 2013 that promotes sustainability, citizenship, and entrepreneurship through e…
Transitar
Transitar is a pioneering Portuguese environmental association that brings internationally recognised sustainability training programs — suc…
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…
Grupo de Aprendizagem Livre
Grupo de Aprendizagem Livre is a Waldorf-inspired educational community for homeschooled teenagers in Colares, Sintra, combining academic co…
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…
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.