Outdoor Education Revisited Through an Urban Lens
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Surviving in the Concrete Jungle is an Erasmus+ KA2 project that rethinks outdoor and adventure education in the context of urban life. It brings together young people and professionals from Armenia, Georgia, Germany, Italy, and Poland to explore how nature-based pedagogies can be adapted to address the social, political, and environmental realities of city spaces.
This website presents the key outputs of the project: a Digital Toolkit and a Handbook designed to support educators, youth workers, and activists in bringing outdoor learning into urban settings. These resources were co-created during two international exchanges and shaped by hands-on experiences in diverse cityscapes. Together, participants engaged with four core modules.
A living system for rethinking outdoor education in any environment
Concrete Jungle is a map-based educational methodology that transforms any environment — urban, rural, natural, or in-between — into a space for exploration, reflection, and learning.
It is not a fixed programme.
It is a living system that grows through practice, adaptation, and contribution.
This platform invites you to discover the tools, stories, and strategies developed through the project — and to use them in your own city to turn concrete spaces into places of learning, connection, and transformation.
This is not just a project—it’s a movement to reclaim spaces for connection, learning, and transformation.
How it works
Using the Toolkit is simple:
Choose a tool from the map
Adapt it to your environment and group
Facilitate the experience
Reflect together with participants
Share feedback, adaptations, or new versions. Each use of the toolkit contributes to its evolution.
Concrete Jungle is not a finished system — it is a growing educational ecosystem.
It evolves through the experiences, ideas, and adaptations of the people who use it.
We invite educators, youth workers, trainers, and young people to contribute to its development.
Why contribution matters
Every environment changes the tool. Every group changes the experience. Every facilitator changes the outcome. By sharing your work, you help the toolkit grow and stay relevant across different contexts and cultures.