What makes someone an adventurer? Expensive gear? Hours of training? I will discuss the pedagogical methods used to make a young person into an adventurer.

• Presenter: Savannah Dale
• Language: EN

You are kindly invited to explore new “Forest Education Guide” for cooperation between Nordic and Baltic region encouraging wild adventure camps for youth and interdisciplinary training courses for teachers about sustainable management of forests.

• Presenter: Liga Abizāre
• Language: EN

In this webinar, we’ll highlight the impact of the project through participant stories, evaluation tools like Most Significant Change, and concrete outcomes from international camps and local activities.

• Presenter: Olli Kamunen
• Language: EN

Various educational frameworks suggest values as a key element in climate change education. But how can we teach values? This simple question for a complex problem drives this workshop. We’ll explore human values and “climate change values”, and how to integrate them into teaching practices.

• Workshop leader: Juliana Friedrichsen
• Language: EN

DIFERAL is a European framework for inclusive and differentiated environmental education. It aims to support educators in creating flexible, engaging, and equitable learning experiences. In this round table, we will explore accessibility, opportunities and practices for differentiated learning, and ways to integrate these approaches into your own teaching. We will present the DIFERAL Competence Framework and the MOOC based on it and discuss the possibilities they offer. 

• Facilitator: DIFERAL project
• Language: EN
  

Update your relationship with nature and literature. The Literary Forest Paths -workshop/session strengthens your wellbeing and ecosocial competence. During the workshop stories and literature intertwine with nature’s wellbeing impact.

• Workshop leader(s): Tuula Rönkä, Johanna Juvonen, Liisa Uimonen
• Language: EN

How to deal with circular economy topics in an inspiring and effective way with young people? Come and explore the workshop designed for high school students and pick up ready-made ideas and implementation tips.

• Workshop leader: Leena Nukari
• Language: EN

Explore how you can practice systems thinking with your audiences to deepen sustainability education. Discover tools to reveal connections, foster agency, and inspire learners to see themselves as part of living systems and changemakers for a sustainable future.

• Workshop leader: Hanna Seimola
• Language: EN

In the workshop, we’ll get our hands in the soil and grab some crayons, as the goal is to create a shared art planting box. The idea behind the workshop is to combine environmental and art education in a way that suits all ages, while also making an impact on the urban environment.

• Workshop leader: Janina Ahlfors
• Language: FI (EN)

This workshop explores how low rope courses can serve as a powerful tool for teaching social-emotional (SEL) skills in outdoor contexts. Participants will engage in a series of experiential challenges that emphasize trust, communication, problem-solving, and resilience. The session demonstrates how carefully facilitated low rope activities can promote self-awareness, relationship skills, and responsible decision-making among learners of different ages.

Through hands-on practice and structured reflection, the workshop highlights the pedagogical potential of adventure education methods for fostering SEL competences. Participants will leave with practical ideas, ready-to-use activity examples, and reflective strategies for integrating low rope challenges into their own practice.

• Workshop leader(s): Second-year Adventure Education students, HUMAK University of Applied Sciences
• Language: EN

Workshop introduces the basics of Phenomenon‑Based Learning (PhBL) through hands‑on mini projects in nature. Participants will explore the forest from multiple angles, combining pedagogy with a playful mindset and games to deepen understanding of biodiversity and nature education.

• Workshop leader: Marianne Saviaho
• Language: EN

Wild in the City of Sustainable Action! A mobile (walking/public transport) workshop on sustainable urban development solutions and perspectives where you see Tampere through the 17 different lenses of UN Sustainable Development Goals. Can you spot the synergies or possible trade-offs of different goals? Pick out and share your ideas on how can we build together sustainable future in our cities – for all!

• Workshop leader: Sanna Mari Huikuri
• Language: EN

• Workshop leader: Sean Blenkinsop 
• Language: EN

Fun Learning done outdoors. Learn from case examples and join in on adapting the seven core Fun Learning principles to outdoor learning. During the workshop we will take an experiental approach to adapting the seven key Fun Learning principles as an outdoor curriculum foundation.

• Workshop leader: Saara Viteli
• Language: EN (FIN, SVE)

We would like to present some ideas about correlations between nature pedagogies and embodied approaches to learning in museums and art education. We’re interested in exploring how sensory experiences can offer a vital basis for learning and for expanding our understanding of the aesthetic.

• Workshop leader: Donna Roberts, Kate Dunton
• Language: EN

In this workshop, we explore practical ways to bring differentiated environmental education into online learning. Participants will examine concrete case studies and hands-on methods drawn from the development of a MOOC course designed to support diverse learners. Together, we will discuss how digital tools, flexible tasks, and varied learning pathways can enhance inclusivity and engagement, and reflect on how these approaches can be adapted to your own teaching contexts.

• Workshop leader: DIFERAL project
• Language: EN

In this workshop will learn about the most recent science on aesthetics in nature conservation, try out educational methods and co-create further practices for educational methods.

• Workshop leader: Anna Haukka
• Language: EN

Explore the world of wild color! This workshop dives into how local botanicals and even urban detritus can become ingredients for a palette of beautiful art materials. After learning about the processes, get hands-on by experimenting with creative mark-making and painting with place-based inks.

• Workshop leader: Rushan Nasretdin
• Language: EN

In the Future Skills workshop, we explore games and fun activities designed to practice the skills needed for a sustainable future.

Our goal is to spark hope and empower participants to become active builders of a better tomorrow. Instead of focusing on the negative ecological footprint, we explore the handprint — a positive force for the environment. Each of the five fingers represents a key skill for the future, and the outdoors serves as an inspiring classroom where these skills come to life.

The concept has been developed by the nature schools of Natur och Miljö and Porvoo Nature School. The workshop has previously been held at UUO events in Swedish under the name Framtidsbyggarna.

• Workshop leader: Maija Kaunismaa, Jonas Heikkilä
• Language: EN

In this workshop, you’ll get to try out a new game-based method that immerses you in the journey of a migratory bird. This outdoor game teaches you about the natural and human-induced challenges birds face during migration. The game combines various pedagogical approaches and school subjects.

• Workshop leader(s): Maria Salin, Pia Lindström
• Language: EN (FI, SVE)

The theme of the workshop is our own cultural heritage and what we want to preserve, strengthen, and pass on to future generations. We will discuss our cultural heritage and values together, then create our own collages from natural materials to depict cultural heritage that is important to us.

• Workshop leader: Hanna Korhonen
• Language: EN

Set your inner child free, be a visionary, bold, boundary-breaking, creator of new, and build unconventional, free, and wild three-dimensional huts, spaces, and structures. You get to build, try out, and explore how different three-dimensional spaces and structures are created. Wild building together, experiencing firsthand.

• Workshop leader: Meri Iiliäinen, Laura Rukola
• Language: FI (EN)

Come and experience the international journey first hand that fosters personal growth with challenging, experiental adventure activities. The FATE-project’s workshop will take you on a journey -with a starting point, three adventure activities and the finishing point with a treasure to be discovered.

In the FATE-project Adventure Education and personal coaching are implemented by taking the participant through challenges with guided reflexion to gain new perspectives, promote personal and social growth and to enable the participant to take the next steps towards their own goals in life. The project is implemented in North Macedonia, Lithuania and Finland with youth that have not yet succeeded in entering the studies or employment. So, come and Experience FATE- we will tell you more at the workshop!

• Workshop leader: Johanna DiNardi
• Language: EN (FI)

In the ant workshop, participants get to learn about the diversity of ants and recognize different species. The participants will also get to do small scientific experiments that are led by an enthusiastic professor, who knows the secrets of ants and their lives.

• Workshop leader(s): Heikki Helanterä, Jenni Sohlman
• Language: FI (EN)

We explore the cemetery as an open learning space for philosophy, nature, language, art, and orientation. Together we approach questions of life and death, discuss preparation, and reduce taboos. Children show how important a conscious culture of living and dying is.

• Workshop leader: Dr. Johanna Pareigis
• Language: EN

In the workshop you will get to know the nature mystery game called “Treasures of The Life Cycle”. The workshop begins with participants solving a nature mystery, followed by nature connection excercise and small learning tasks related to the theme of the mystery game.

• Workshop leader: Katri Willman
• Language: EN (FIN)

What happens in the forest and what can the forest do?
We will explore and discover the diverse forms and environments of the forest. We will gradually discover the functions of the forest and consider nature conservation from an economic and environmental perspective.

• Workshop leader: Iva Křenovská
• Language: EN