As an unsealed car park redesign, this microclimatic cooling oasis connects various recreational areas while at the same time promoting living diversity.

Submitter: Marktgemeinde Königstetten
Year of project implementation: 2022
Place: Königstetten (AUT)
Website
project description (PDF)

Fotocredit: © Katrin Schützenauer

A valuable urban habitat through climate-relevant greenery: attractive extensive shrub beds, meadows and tree underplantings are joined by new surface drainage systems.

Submitter: Stadtgemeinde Baden - Abt. Stadtgärten
Year of project implementation: running since 2019
Place: Baden (AUT)
Website
project description (PDF)

Fotocredit: © Cedrick Kollerics

Eighteen town districts provide a near-natural interplay with versatile cooperations and projects, reaching from insect-friendly lighting to paradise sites in cemeteries.

Submitter: Gemeinde Hohe Börde
Year of project implementation: 2014-2023
Place: Hohe Börde (DEU)
Website
project description (PDF)

Fotocredit: © Gemeinde Hohe Börde

Many lighthouses use the soil as a sponge in the flood-damaged region, promoting rainwater management as well as species-rich cohabitations.

Submitter: VORTOUR der Hoffnung/Landfrauenkreisverband Ahrweiler
Year of project implementation: 2022
Place: Ahrweiler (DEU)
Website
project description (PDF)

Fotocredit: © Ingrid Strohe

With a focus on nature-, water- and soil-water-friendly gardening, biotopes, sensory paths and retention basins were created here instead of concrete, construction waste and rubbish.

Submitter: OZ ŽiTo v SÝPKE (NGO)
Year of project implementation: running since 2018
Place: Moravske Lieskove (SVK)
Website
project description (PDF)

Fotocredit: © Viktor Kakas

The green play and learning landscape with rainwater utilisation, redesigned for climate and species protection, brings children and the neighbourhood into contact with nature.

Submitter: VBS Sint-Paulus / Klimaatspeelplaats
Year of project implementation: 2020 laufend
Place: Kortrijk (BEL)
Website
project description (PDF)

Fotocredit: © Cedric Ryckaert

The Natural Science Park with its technology pavilion, power house and theme trails across the cultivated landscape, as well as a fenced school garden with vegetables, are used in a variety of ways.

Submitter: Höhere Lehranstalt für Umwelt und Wirtschaft Yspertal
Year of project implementation: running since 2016
Place: Yspertal (AUT)
Website
project description (PDF)

Fotocredit: © Peter Böhm, Urban Isabel

This schoolyard located in Paris is fully integrated into the curriculum as well as extracurricular activities as an ecological and natural space in an urban environment.

Submitter: Ecole maternelle Emeriau (Emeriau Pre elementary school)
Year of project implementation: running since 2019
Place: Paris (FRA)
Website

Fotocredit: © Emeriau School

The school garden and an outdoor area equipped with natural garden elements are used for a varied curriculum and are also open to visitors.

Submitter: Freie Schule Rügen
Year of project implementation: running since 2014
Place: Dreschvitz (DEU)
Website
project description (PDF)

Fotocredit: Mathias Rapphahn, Jana Hahne

Frequently used for integrative lessons, team meetings and recreation for the teaching staff, the focus here is on fruits, vegetables, honey production and nature observation.

Submitter: Schule an der Robinsbalje
Year of project implementation: running since 1969
Place: Bremen (DEU)
Website
project description (PDF)

Fotocredit: Jana Meyer

Students at the Educational Establishment for Elementary Pedagogy created a valuable space for leisure as well as for dynamic, fun-filled learning in this didactic outdoor laboratory.

Submitter: BAfEP Linz (Bildungsanstalt für Elementarpädagogik)
Year of project implementation: since 2018
Place: Linz (AUT)
Website
project description (PDF)

Fotocredit: Land OÖ

The Botanical Garden and Park offer all school levels as well as hobby groups experimental, action-oriented learning and experiential education around geology and nature.

Submitter: Muzeum Říčany
Year of project implementation: running since 2015
Ort: Říčany (CZE)
Website
Website
project description (PDF)

Fotocredit: Jakub Halaš, Vlastimil Vojáček. All rights go to Muzeum Říčany

This barrier-free park is a special, recognised extracurricular place of learning for all types and levels of schools and can also be explored on one's own without prior registration.

Submitter: Gartenkulturzentrum Niedersachsen - Park der Gärten GmbH
Year of project implementation: running since 2003
Place: Bad Zwischenahn (DEU)
Website
project description (PDF)

Fotocredit: Gartenkulturzentrum Niedersachsen - Park der Gärten GmbH

This diverse outdoor space of the Horticultural School is used for practice, theory and leisure activities. As a nature show garden, it is open daily to the public free of charge.

Submitter: Gartenbauschule Langenlois
Year of project implementation: running since 2005
Place: Langenlois (AUT)
Website
project description (PDF)

Fotocredit: Gartenbauschule Langenlois

The Rostock School Garden Academy as a classic school garden and the smaller garden BunT are both didactic areas for future teachers as well as for the promotion of nature.

Submitter: Fachdidaktik Biologie, MNF / Institut für Biowissenschaften, Universität Rostock
Year of project implementation: RoSA running since 2011; BunT running since 2019
Place: Rostock (DEU)
Website
project description (PDF)

Fotocredits: Susan Pollin CC BY ND

This natural place of encounter, recreation and exchange for students, employees and local residents is maintained by students for the purposes of practical learning.

Submitter: ÖH der Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt
Year of project implementation: running since 2015
Place: Klagenfurt am Wörthersee (AUT)
Website
project description (PDF)

Fotocredit: Dietmar Rossmann

The certified exemplary nature garden offers various forms of learning, outdoor education and inspiration for the design & maintenance of school, children's & climate gardens.

Submitter: Lipka – školské zařízení pro environmentální vzdělávání Brno, příspěvková organizace
Year of project implementation: running since 1991
Place: Brno (CZE)
Website
project description (PDF)

Fotocredit: Lipka

This ecologically maintained farm serves as a meaningful place of learning for pre-school and primary school children of regional schools as well as for adults in an inspiring environment.

Submitter: Základní škola s RvJ Magic Hill
Year of project implementation: running since 2019
Place: Říčany (CZE)
Website
project description (PDF)

Fotocredit: Martina Olivova, Eva Kolarova

Offering a lot of potential for children, parents, village inhabitants and nature, this showcase nature garden located around a primary school bears the Nature Show Garden badge.

Submitter: Kindergarten Restoky
Year of project implementation: running since 2003
Place: Restoky (CZE)
Website
project description (PDF)

Fotocredit: Martina Olivova, Eva Kolarova

Under the motto "feeling oneself and thereby finding oneself", this garden - being part of a crèche -offers diverse experiences of nature for urban children.

Submitter: Kinderkrippe Flurgasse (Crèche children in activity – experiencing the garden year with self-determination)
Year of project implementation: running since 2022
Place: Graz (AUT)
Website
project description (PDF)

Fotocredit: Kinderkrippe Flurgasse

A public community garden as a field of experimentation and social meeting place where knowledge and experiences are shared - plus an offline place in the digitalised world.

Sutbmitter: Angelika Enhuber
Year of project implementation: running since 2022
Place: Ardning (AUT)
project description (PDF)

Fotocredit: © Angelika Enhuber

The careful use of resources, embedded in the landscape of a historic garden complex, preserves a habitat for a flora and fauna typical for the region.

Submitter: Familie von Mansberg
Year of project implementation: Masonic Park since 2012; Perma Garden since 2018
Place: Lauenförde (DEU)
Website
project description (PDF)

Fotocredit: © Silke von Mansberg

The richness in structures, closeness to nature and the selection of materials of the huge inspiring private garden form an oasis of greenery, moisture and biodiversity on an alluvial farmland.

Submitter: Mária a Alexander Csámpai
Jahr der Projektrealisierung: 2006 land purchase, 2010 flooding of land, new planting
Ort: Čechynce (SVK)
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Fotocredit: © Alexander Csámpai

With old woody plants and enriched by vegetable, herb and flower beds, the flora and fauna of this hillside garden stand alongside the surrounding nature reserve.

Submitter: Garden Zhiva-Ludmila Kuruc
Year of project implementation: running since 2018
Place: Jasenov (SVK)
project description (PDF)

Fotocredit: © Ludmila Kuruc/ Dusan Kuruc

In this stepping stone biotope, a variety of woody plants, herbs and bee-friendly wild shrubs (meadows) grow in the attractive roof garden on an area which used to be worthless in former days.

Submitter: Andrea Jaschik
Year of project implementation: running since 2020
Place: Aachen (DEU)
Website

Fotocredit: (c) Andrea Jaschik

The Botanical Garden's exhibition uses creative design and attractive planting to convey easily understandable specialist knowledge on the native flora and fauna.

Submitter: Green School, University of Innsbruck, Botanical Garden
Year of project implementation: 05.05.2023–01.11.2023, 01.05.2024–01.11.2024
Ort: Innsbruck (AUT)
Website
project description (PDF)

Fotocredit: © Sabine Sladky Meraner, Caecilia Lechner Pagitz

In order to create learning, meeting, observation and nature spaces in the city, diverse stepping stone biotopes were created here, for which even footpaths were removed.

Submitter: Gartenpolylog - Gardeners of the world cooperate
Year of project implementation: running since January 2023
Place: Wien (AUT)
Website
project description (PDF)

The "butterfly meadow", which has developed into a permanent paradise, gives (young) people the opportunity to help wildlife in a self-effective way through design and care.

Submitter: Vienna Ombuds-Office for environmental Protection (Wiener Umweltanwaltschaft) and Wiener Stadtgärten
Year of project implementation: running since 2004
Place: Wien (AUT)
Website Wiener Umweltanwaltschaft
Website Wiener Stadtgärten
project description

Fotocredit: © Dominik Linhard

The steadfast, unique urban living and learning garden puts into focus vegetable and fruit growing while at the same time improving societal awareness of topics for the future.

Submitter: City Farm Augarten - Verein zur Förderung von Urban Gardening, Gartenpädagogik und ökologischer Bildung
Year of project implementation: running since 2011
Place: Wien (AUT)
Website
project description (PDF)

Fotocredit: © Elisabeth Pollak City Farm Augarten

Biodiverse, sustainable and climate-resilient spaces - piccolo - with native plants and garden structures that promote living space can be transferred to other residential buildings.

Submitter: Stiftung für Mensch und Umwelt
Year of project implementation: 2020-2021
Place: Berlin (DEU)
Website
project description (PDF)

Fotocredit: © Stiftung für Mensch und Umwelt