Workshops, courses and gatherings across sustainable Portugal. Found something we're missing?
A two-week certified permaculture design programme at Quinta Vale da Lama in Lagos, combining design, hands-on practice and community learning alongside parallel art and volunteering programmes. Limited subsidised places are available for those with financial constraints.
A 12-day hands-on programme at Tamera combining garden and solar test field work with community-building activities like Forum, focused on regenerative living and energy autonomy.
The University of Coimbra is holding the 4th edition of Sustainability Days, with sessions, debates and an international conference on AI and sustainability, running from 30 September to 15 October at Polo I and the Jardim Botânico.
A series of gatherings, workshops and conversations in Sabóia, Odemira, on earth as a building material and a medium for artistic experimentation, linked to the reconstruction of the Escola Provisória para Nada. It runs from 5 to 17 October, with the participation of several artists and CRU Atelier.
Casa d'Abóbora is looking for 6 young people aged 18 to 30, preferably from Cinfães, for an Erasmus+ exchange in Prizzi, Sicily, on rural revitalisation and democratic participation. Applications are made through the association's Linktree.
GEOTA TRAINING COURSE | COASTAL ECOSYSTEMS: BIODIVERSITY, COASTAL MANAGEMENT AND ECO-CITIZENSHIP. A 20-hour training course with scientific-pedagogical accreditation for groups 420 and 520. 📍 Format: online and in-person. Secure your place and actively contribute to the futu...
GEOTA is running a 20-hour training course on coastal ecosystems, biodiversity, coastal management and eco-citizenship, in both online and in-person format, aimed at teachers, students, technicians and the general public, between 28 September and 31 October.
Prazilândia – Turismo e Ambiente E.M. once again joins forces with the Município de Castanheira de Pera to run, throughout 2026, another edition of the "Doze Meses, Doze Caminhadas" program. This year's edition offers a varied itinerary covering the history, culture and biodiversity of the Castanheira de Pera municipality, which includes the Aldeia do Xisto do Coentral. Each activity is designed to provide an educational and leisure experience, in full harmony with the environment…
A series of training and awareness sessions for older people, organised by the Unidade de Cuidados na Comunidade Terras do Lince between October 2026 and May 2027 in the parishes of Penamacor, covering topics such as coping with cold weather, stress management, sleep hygiene and dementia.
The Jardins+Nossos project, which transforms green spaces in social housing neighbourhoods in Madeira using endemic plants, will hold community planting activities in Bairro da Nazaré on 15 and 22 October.
The 3rd edition of the Ocean Hackathon Peniche is a 48-hour international competition that brings together multidisciplinary teams to create innovative solutions for Ocean challenges. It runs from 16 to 18 October at ESTM, Universidade de Leiria e Oeste, in Peniche.
Open day of the Re.encontro Re.Rural 2026 in São Luís, bringing together over 40 Iberian eco-social transformation organisations to celebrate and network. Free entry, with soup shared on site.
Year-long walking program in Castanheira de Pêra with twelve monthly themed walks exploring the local history, culture, and biodiversity of the Xisto villages, each requiring prior registration.
Palombar and Milvoz join Famalicão em Transição to talk about nature restoration, as part of the celebrations of the movement's 10th anniversary, on Saturday, 17 October.
The Jardins Abertos festival arrives for the first time in Caldas da Rainha on 17 and 18 October, with guided tours, workshops and collective gardening activities across the town's park, woodland and urban vegetable gardens. The event is free and co-organised with the Câmara Municipal.
The third edition of Kidical Mass Seixal is intermunicipal in character, bringing together the municipalities of Seixal, Barreiro and Moita on a joint bike ride. Let's come together to occupy public space, cycle as a community and show that alternative urban mobility is possible and urgent. Kidical Mass (Children's Critical Mass) is a global movement that takes place all over the country and seeks to respond to, and give visibility to, the need and desire of children and adults to use…
A week-long residency for technologists and community builders at Traditional Dream Factory, an Alentejo regenerative village and farm, combining farm work, workshops, skill-shares, and a wilderness immersion day.
From 17 to 18 October, Caldas da Rainha will host the Open Gardens Festival for the first time. The starting point is a simple question: "What does it mean to talk about nature in this territory?". In Caldas da Rainha, gardens aren't found only behind gates. They extend through the city's parks and woodlands, urban allotments, farmland, community projects and spaces where different ways of building the future are being tried out. On 17 and 18…
DGARTES and the Universidade de Coimbra are organising a conference on the role of the arts and culture in the ecological and climate transition. Over two days, the programme includes discussion panels, talks and workshops, fostering dialogue between different fields of knowledge and geographical contexts. Among the main goals of the gathering is to strengthen the skills, tools and governance models of the institutions and organisations within the Rede de Teatros e Cineteatros Portugueses…
In-person session in Paredes de Coura on concrete actions to promote human-wolf coexistence, building on earlier sessions. Part of the PAL-Coura local agents platform, mediated by Universidade Nova de Lisboa.
Planetiers is hosting its World Gathering 2026 in Guimarães, Portugal, from October 21 to 23, bringing together participants from Portugal, Brazil and beyond to discuss urban sustainability, innovation and shared challenges.
Annual meeting of the B Corp movement, organised by B Lab Portugal, focused on the power of collective action to transform the economy. It takes place on 21 October in Guimarães, European Green Capital 2026, with talks from business and academic speakers.
Rizoma screens the documentary "Ferida Aberta, Mineração em Portugal", about mineral extractivism and the struggle in Covas do Barroso, followed by a discussion with guests from Jornal Mapa, Quercus and a local association.
A community gathering in Mértola bringing together business owners, entrepreneurs and community members to discuss regenerative tourism and its impact on local development.
The 17th edition of the Mértola Hunting Fair, organized by the Municipal Council, will bring together hunters, companies and visitors around sustainable hunting activity and nature tourism.
SPEA-BirdLife Madeira is recruiting volunteers for night-time rescue brigades for juvenile Cory's shearwaters disoriented by light pollution, between 23 October and 5 November, on the streets of the eastern side of the island, between Câmara de Lobos and São Jorge.
Nova Acrópole de Coimbra, in partnership with the Associação Plantar uma Árvore and the Fundação Mata do Bussaco, is holding an Ecological Volunteering activity on 25 October 2026, from 9:30am to 12:30pm, in the Mata Nacional do Bussaco. The initiative aims to bring together awareness, action and commitment to Nature, giving participants a morning devoted to the preservation and enhancement of this important natural heritage. The activity will also involve volunteers from…
Conference in Lisbon on 27 October, from 9am to 1pm, where managers, experts and decision-makers discuss how Portuguese companies and institutions are driving the transition to a sustainable economy, focusing on moving from intention to concrete results.
Throughout November 2026, the Comunidade para a Regeneração dos Ecossistemas do Barlavento is organising various volunteering activities across the Algarve, including reforestation, soil improvement, guided visits and workshops, with several projects taking part.
Guimarães will host the Eurocities Environment Forum from 3 to 6 November 2026, bringing together European local leaders and experts to discuss energy transition, waste management and urban climate resilience.
