Highlight risky play
Show its important role in children’s learning, development and relationship with the natural world.
Erasmus+ cooperation partnership
The pedagogy of risk and its benefits in forest kindergartens
Helping early childhood educators support meaningful, developmentally valuable risky play in nature with confidence and care.
Why this work matters
Growing competence, confidence and understanding
Early childhood is a formative period in which children develop competences and shape their relationship with nature. This project aims to strengthen the position and quality of forest kindergartens within education systems.
Support teachers
Increase professional competence in enabling and managing risky play thoughtfully.
Build awareness
Raise public understanding of nature-based preschool education and forest kindergartens.
Planned reach
Learning that becomes practical support
The project will provide training and workshops for 156 teachers, while dissemination is expected to reach at least 2,000 people directly.
Expected results
- A textbook, methodology and teacher competence profile
- Action plans, manuals and educational materials
- Campaigns, media contributions and three short documentary films
- A lasting website dedicated to risky play
European partnership
Six organisations, six countries
Coordinated by the Association of Forest Kindergartens in Slovakia, the partnership brings together organisations from across Europe.
- Slovakia — Coordinator
- Finland
- Czech Republic
- Spain
- Lithuania
- Romania
EU funding statement
Co-funded by the European Union
“Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (ECEA). Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.”