Outdoor Learning in Higher Education (OLHE)

Dear EAPRIL Community,

We believe in the transformative power of outdoor education/out-of-the classroom learning experiences in higher education across academic disciplines. Our Outdoor Learning in Higher Education (OLHE) consortium of seven European partner institutions (Universities of Augsburg, Hamburg, Luxembourg, Olomouc, Oslo, Economics university Vienna and Innovative Education Center Poland) would like to build a Europe-wide network of higher education teaching professionals who connect and exchange ideas over practice beyond the traditional lecture hall.

Our main goals are:

1) to create a network and to provide this network with

2) guidelines for OLHE that are discipline-specific but also overarching.

We kindly ask you to help us develop these guidelines through participating in our online survey. Austrian consortium partner Economics University Vienna will process all survey information. You are eligible to take the survey if you are a higher education teaching professional who a) is already engaged in outdoor/out-of-the-classroom teaching, or b) interested in developing your practice further with regards to taking your students outside.

We keep a very open mind when it comes to “outdoor” and would like to co-develop this concept with anyone interested in improving education through out-of-the-box learning engagements that promote so-called transformative future skills.

Please take 5-8 minutes to fill in the survey. It is available in many languages (English, German, French, Dutch, Scandinavian, Czech) and will give you the opportunity to be added to a mailing list that keeps you in the loop on everything related to OLHE. Please click here: https://www.olhe-europe.eu/

We are an EU funded Erasmus Plus Project and supported by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research.

Thanks so much!