Real impact is a collective effort. We believe that collaboration between NGOs dedicated to environmental education programs is key to fostering change and cultivating an ecologically conscious future generation. Here, you’ll find organizations committed to advancing ecoliteracy at local and regional levels, making a significant impact together.
El Ñeru Verde is an association created to boost ecosocial activity in the Avilés region (Asturias) and promote ecoliteracy. The El Ñeru Verde Ecosocial Center serves as the hub for a variety of activities run by different associations, and the number of groups and initiatives is expected to grow soon. The center hosts associations such as Grupo Naturalista Mavea, with 40 years of experience in environmental education and nature protection, organizing lectures, youth nature groups, a library, and naturalist discussions. www.mavea.org
El Paxu Verde, with over 10 years of ecosocial awareness work, runs an organic product consumer group and publishes an educational magazine. www.elpaxuverde.org
The ecofeminist association Petra Kelly organizes monthly meetings and reading sessions. https://asociacionpetrakelly.wordpress.com/
The center also hosts furniture restoration workshops, promoting circular economy and reuse. https://mobelho.es/
Asociación Biodiversa is a non-profit environmental organisation in Asturias (Spain) that promotes ecoliteracy through environmental education projects based on experiential learning and sustainable lifestyle initiatives. It engages local and international communities, offering hands-on activities, training, and collaborative projects that help participants understand and act on the connections between humans and nature. By fostering awareness, systems thinking, and community action, Biodiversa empowers people to contribute to resilient, sustainable ecosystems worldwide.
Dreams for Life is an organization founded in 2011 in Romania, that promotes ecoliteracy through nature-based youth work and holistic human development. We support young people to reconnect with nature, understand ecological interdependence, and live in balance with themselves, their communities, and the environment. Through experiential learning, eco-psychology, nature-based education, and community projects, we raise awareness about current ecological challenges and sustainable alternatives. Our local and international programs empower youth and adults to develop ecological awareness, responsibility, and skills for building eco-centric, resilient communities.
Ecogenia is a non-profit organization pioneering Greece’s first Youth Climate Corps. We do this by mobilizing, training and compensating young people (18-30) to lead local climate action and build a resilient and equitable future. Ecoliteracy is embedded in our model: all corps members receive training in climate science, systems thinking, and active citizenship, learning to connect ecological knowledge with real-world action. Through education-focused service – such as school-based sustainability workshops – our youth bring sustainability learning to classrooms and communities, fostering ecological awareness, agency, and intergenerational learning across Greek society.
YUVA Association (founded 2010) develops and implements lifelong-learning programmes that build ecological literacy and support a sustainable life for all. Through the Environmental Literacy Network (80+ CSOs and local governments), YUVA trains trainers and delivers dissemination courses on sustainability, ecological and climate literacy. It also promotes participatory climate governance via the Izmir Citizens’ Assembly for Climate, and advances environmental & ocean literacy across Türkiye, Bulgaria and Greece through the Interreg NEXT Black Sea Basin EOL project (trainings, manuals, awareness video and policy white paper).
Društvo Metta, based in the beautiful countryside of Slovenia, is a nonprofit organisation dedicated to holistic personal, social, and environmental development through non-formal education and community-based activities. Our work promotes ecoliteracy by fostering awareness of the interconnectedness between humans and nature. Through experiential learning, youth exchanges, and embodied practices—such as the EARTH project grounded in eco somatics and ecopsychology—we support young people in developing ecological sensitivity, responsibility, and sustainable ways of living rooted in direct experience and reflection.
Our organisation promotes ecoliteracy through experiential learning rooted in daily life, nature, and community. Our core work focuses on young people who live, learn and volunteer on our farm, where ecoliteracy is developed through hands-on practice in regenerative agriculture, plant/trees biodiversity, permaculture, sustainable living, food self-sufficiency, natural building and community living. In addition, we transfer these approaches through youth exchanges, training courses, and workshops at local levels. Beyond practical skills/knowledge, our activities encourage deeper reflection and systems thinking on how individuals and communities can live and act in harmony with natural.
ENO Schoolnet is an international school network that inspires children and young people to learn about sustainable development by doing things together. It offers schools a variety of materials, projects, and events focused on nature, climate and the environment. ENO supports schools’ own environmental activities and works closely with teachers and environmental partners. At the heart of ENO’s work are hands-on learning, a sense of community, and caring for our shared planet.
ENO coordinates also a local network of environmental and sustainability educators Itävät (“the sproutings” and a pun to the word east as it operates in eastern Finland).
ART KRUH is a non-formal education organisation devoted to the regeneration of rural landscapes and human communities. Rooted in traditions and crafts, ecology, permaculture and community building, we work at the meeting point of land, culture and human development. Through experiential learning, arts and everyday life practices, we nurture environmental awareness and a harmonious relationship between people and nature. Our work supports personal, local and regional development, inspiring youth—and people of all ages—to live creatively, consciously and sustainably in the countryside. We run the eco-village education centre Golden Hill as a space for learning, expression and exploration of self and nature.
Change in Nature’s work promotes ecoliteracy by guiding individuals and organisations through immersive, nature-based experiences and leadership training that deepen their understanding of human–nature relationships, strengthen connection with the more-than-human world, and cultivate the skills and awareness needed to act in service of ecological and social wellbeing.
We support individuals and organisations in practising new ways of being, seeing and leading that foster deep and enduring change. WE help people lead from a deeper place: connected to nature, grounded in community and aligned with purpose. Over 2,500 people have benefited from our programmes since 2016.
Learning for Change Foundation (Bulgaria) is an organization from Bulgaria working at the intersection of youth work, ecological consciousness and nature-based human development. We design and deliver deep experiential programmes that support ecological awareness, mental well-being and cultural transformation. Our work integrates non-formal education, eco psychology and ecocentric perspectives to help people reconnect with nature, and cultivate values of sustainability, justice and care for the more-than-human world. Through Erasmus+ projects, trainings and long-term learning processes, we promote ecoliteracy as a foundation for personal, social and cultural transformation.
The introduction and celebration of Pollinators Day (March 10) as a significant day for nature conservation was initiated by two individuals in 2018, with the support of many different institutions.
Declining pollinating insects are very important to us and to nature, and every individual, every educational and cultural institution, and every business can do something to help them. The Hungarian Environmental Education Association embraced the cause, and the established Pollinator Working Group launched the Pollinator of the Year program in 2023.
The Planet (Bolygó) is a community space that offers room for young people, organisations, movements, and local residents who want to make things greener.
Its aim is to energise Budapest’s cultural and civic life by providing a venue, a home, and an active community for everyone concerned about the climate and ecological crisis and eager to take action. At The Planet, environmental protection, the arts, culture, and activism come together through collective action. It is a meeting point that can become a space for self-organisation for young people in Budapest. Our doors are open to anyone who would like to be part of a green community.
Asociación Promesas (Promoter of Methodologies for an alternative and sustainable society) is a non-profit organization based in Spain since 2014, working at local, national and European levels through non-formal education. We design and deliver projects, educational materials and trainings focused on ecoliteracy, sustainability, emotional wellbeing and active citizenship. We actively work with Scout groups in the Valencian Community and volunteer in Scout youth leader training schools in the Valencian Community and Castilla y León, supporting educational volunteering that reaches around 9,000 young people across both regions.
The Ecopsychology Institute Hungary is a leading hub for the development and dissemination of ecopsychological approaches in Hungary and serves as the national representative of the International Ecopsychology Society. Our work is grounded in experiential, practice-based methodologies that integrate natural sciences with ecopsychological approaches. Through long-term training programmes for diverse professional audiences, we support ecological literacy, systems thinking, and a deepening of human–nature relationships. A core method of our work is the participatory walk, which aims to transform environmental perception towards a more ecologically grounded and relational mode of knowing.
The goal of Erdőmerülés (meaning Forest Immersion) Programs is to facilitate the calming, healing experiences of nature connection, and to spread this method that is gentle for both humans and nature. During our programs we connect with the stimuli of nature with all five of our senses, which results a peaceful state and mood. From our training courses teachers and other helping professionals master various forms of the method, so that nature connection can be included in as many helping and educational processes as possible.
Cargonomia (Founded in 2015 in Budapest, Hungary) is a self-organized, open collective focusing on urban sustainability, organic farming, agroecology education, bicycle mobility, degrowth in practice, community activism for more liveable cities, and self-sufficient living. Cargonomia collaborates closely with Zsamboki Biokert, a human-scale organic farm and learning center located one hour from Budapest. Together they manage a traineeship program, which serves as an “open university” and over the last decade has hosted dozens of adult learners who participated directly in farming activities, bicycle education, local food distribution and educational camps for building with natural materials.
At Messzelátó Association, we’re all about living more sustainably in the city. In Budapest, we run hands-on workshops and fun educational programs about soil health, organic food growing, and conscious consumption.Our goal is to help young people in urban areas connect with nature and make small, meaningful changes toward a greener, more sustainable life.