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.
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.