Restoration academy is a multi-year collaboration project for nature-based climate education for young people 

Being a youth-led collective, we at RE-PEAT are keen to inspire more young people to be part of the global peatland story. One of the ways that we are working on this is through the Restoration Academy project, which is all about equipping young people and youth workers with practical tools and opportunities for ecological restoration. 

Hands-on restoration camps are a win-win. They support our threatened ecosystems by working on hard to reach parts of the land, which cannot be accessed by machinery. Also, they are opportunities for community building, informal learning and fun. We believe that through these camps and training programmes, we can build more resilience, motivation and active hope for everyone involved. 

​Activities in the project include; researching the state of nature-based environmental education in Slovakia, Finland, Greece and the Netherlands, organising nature restoration training camps, creating an operations model and a tool pack to promote youth participation in nature restoration, producing three demonstration videos on nature restoration, and an animation on the operations model, and hosting training sessions for youth workers and other educators from the youth, environment, and education and training sectors interested in the topic.

Outputs of the project will include:

• A report on nature-based environmental education

• A tool pack and an operations model, plus an animated video presenting the operations model

• Three demonstration videos on nature restoration targeted for youth

• Communication materials on the topic addressed

• A training model on the topic addressed