About the project
A European partnership strengthening forest kindergarten education through shared knowledge, professional learning and practical resources.
Early childhood is a formative period in which children develop essential competences and shape their relationship with nature. Forest kindergartens create valuable opportunities for exploration, independence and learning outdoors.
The project aims to strengthen the position and quality of forest kindergartens within education systems by building a clearer understanding of risky play and helping teachers support it responsibly.
Objectives
Highlight risky play and its important role in children’s development.
Increase teachers’ ability to support and manage risky play with informed judgement.
Improve understanding of nature-based preschool education and forest kindergartens.
Planned implementation
The project will provide training and workshops for 156 teachers. It will create a textbook and a methodology that address risky play from both theoretical and practical perspectives. These results will be disseminated widely, reaching at least 2,000 people directly.
This website will help interested organisations improve their approach to risky play and raise the subject’s visibility among professional audiences and the wider public. The project will use several complementary forms of dissemination.
Expected results
A textbook, trained participants and a teacher competence profile.
Action plans, manuals, a methodology and a website dedicated to risky play.
Campaigns, media contributions and three short documentary films about forest kindergartens.
Timeline
The partnership, project structure and early website are established. Current website status.
Training, workshops, activities and draft outputs will be documented as verified information becomes available.
Final resources and multilingual deliverables will be organised for long-term open access.