Project “Outdoor for all” in Italy

European Association “World-Our Home” participated in the Erasmus+ training course “Outdoor for all” in Italy from 9th – 16th July 2024.

Life in the open air, contact with nature and the dimension of community life are fundamental educational resources in the growth of young people but also of adults. The pandemic has prevented many educational agencies from carrying out activities on their premises and limiting peer contact. Returning from this experience, outdoor acitivities can present itself as a good alternative to be spread even outside the associations that practice it, in order to obtain new tools to discover the educational role of nature and use open spaces not only as an alternative to activity indoors, but as a real educational resource.

Along the training course the participants explored the methodology of outdoor education by practicing it firsthand, therefore instead of simply just reading and memorizing the exercises, they tried to learn the methods. These moments of exchange and analysm are fundamental, since they enhance the personal experience and training of all participants in a perennial exchange of good practices, so as to enhance the presence of each.