🌍 Connecting Nature and Culture

The project Beautiful Constellations aims to use non-formal education and outdoor learning as tools to raise awareness about cultural diversity and environmental protection. By combining astronomy, hiking, and storytelling, it seeks to inspire participants to connect more deeply with nature and recognize the role of the night sky and constellations in shaping human history and culture.

🤝 Promoting Intercultural Understanding

Another key objective is to promote shared humanity and intercultural understanding through the lens of astronomy. Participants will explore how constellations and myths are represented in different cultures, encouraging dialogue, empathy, and respect among young people from diverse backgrounds. This intercultural exchange fosters inclusion, curiosity, and a sense of belonging within the European community.

🚀 Empowering Youth and Educators

Finally, the project seeks to equip youth workers and participants with practical skills and innovative methodologies. Through workshops, guided activities, and collaborative creation, they will learn to integrate astronomy and outdoor education into their daily work. These skills will not only enhance youth participation and creativity but also support long-term initiatives in sustainability, education, and community building.

PROGRAM

Dates: 19th – 25th MAY 2025

*Note:  Food and accommodation will be provided only during the training days 

Location: Tenerife – Canary Islands – Spain

Main Objectives:

Outdoor education

Use outdoor education techniques to enable an active type of learning, aware of the nature around us, which can motivate young people, and help them to think on their own and be autonomous. Outdoor education allows for the development of creativity and imagination, and it is dynamic, healthy and more attractive activities for young people.

Experience & development

Experience outdoor education activities, including language learning techniques, treasure hunts, heritage interpretation, volunteering activities and environmental leisure activities in natural environments to teach the importance of local heritage, and activities to raise awareness about the fragility and protection of the environment. We will create prototypes of outdoor education activities.

Applying & spreading

Apply the methodology and techniques learnt during the project in the educational process of young people, to help them in their personal development and to stimulate their participation and involvement in environmental, cultural and social inclusion activities.. Create a network of stakeholders to share best practices in outdoor education.

Activities:

Stargazing in the Teide National Park

Visit to The Teide National Park

Energizers

Partners Activities

Astronomy for blind people

Astronomy Vs Astrology

Star Evolution

Beach Cleaning activity

Intercultural Night

Hiking in the Nature

Participants

Lectures

Workshops

Presenting our organizations

Outdoor education activities

Organizers & Trainers

Partners

Spain

5 Participants

Croatia

2 Participants

Italy

2 Participants

Latvia

2 Participants

Portugal

2 Participants

Greece

2 Participants

Slovenia

2 Participants

France

2 Participants

Georgia

2 Participants

Poland

2 Participants

Norway

2 Participants

Moravia

2 Participants

Total participants: 27

Facilities:

The training was developed mainly outside in the natural landscape of the island of Tenerife. For the indoor activities we used the conference room of the Youth Hostel in Guia de Isora. 

OUTCOMES

BEAUTIFUL CONSTELLATIONS HANDOUT

You can find the complete description of the activities, with tips and suggestions, in the following document. We invite you to use these activities as an inspiration for youth education activities, to adapt them to your environment and your necessities, and to… Play and have fun!

Click here to download the HANDOUT

Pictures of the Training

ABOUT US

The NGO Desaplatánate – Alternative and Sustainable Tourism in Canary Islands is a non-profit organization with the objective to foster the development of an alternative, social and sustainable touristic model that improves the general living conditions of the local population, and that guarantees respect for nature and the cultural values of the local community.

Therefore, we promote the mobilization of social networks through the facilitation of touristic activities and leisure which are accessible to everybody. The main principle is to maximize the benefits of tourism within the Canarian society, encouraging the inclusion of the society in the tourism branch, and supporting activities that improve the employability of the local population.

CONTACT US

Send us a message or connect on social media:
desaplatanate@gmail.com
www.desaplatanate.org
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Address
C./ El Drago 2
Tegueste
38280 Tenerife España

 

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