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
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…
Ceiba Permacultura
A permaculture education and consultancy initiative based in Vila Nova de Famalicão, Portugal, running courses, workshops and community gard…
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…
Raíz Circular
A sustainability and circular economy consultancy in Évora, Portugal, that guides organisations through diagnosis, strategic planning, imple…
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.