Eco Life Experience
Eco Life Experience is a sustainable eco-tourism and education platform based in Sintra, Portugal, offering workshops, reconnection activiti…
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
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…
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…
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.