CABULAND Erasmus+ Small-scale partnerships in adult education (KA210-ADU)
This project aims to build capacity for democratic landscape transformation among the urban and peri-urban communities of Guimarães, Portugal, the European Green Capital 2026. We plan to achieve this by transferring knowledge and good practices from three European organisations that have actively developed methodical innovation in citizen participation over the past years: LE:NOTRE Institute (the Netherlands), Commonspace (Greece) and Kultúraktív (Hungary). Reciprocally, all partners will learn from the approaches of the applicant institution, the Landscape Laboratory of Guimarães (Portugal), an established organisation promoting local sustainability. The overall framework of this cooperation is the annual Landscape Forum, hosted in May 2026 in Guimarães. This event format has been developed by the LE:NOTRE Institute to advance sustainable landscape development locally. The LE:NOTRE landscape forum sets a focus on dialogue, reflection and discourse. It provides a unique opportunity to interact creatively in informal workshops and field visit settings within a local landscape context.
Landscape is understood in this context as any type of environment, no matter if urban, peri-urban or rural. This definition follows the Landscape Convention of the Council of Europe.
The situatedness in the local landscape serves as a perfect context for developing sustainability competences. We refer here to GreenComp, the European sustainability competence framework. Sustainability competences can help learners become systemic and critical thinkers, as well as develop agency, and form a knowledge basis for everyone. The learning processes of a landscape forum typically integrate formal, non-formal and informal learning activities in an innovative. With this project, we want to strengthen this approach by qualifying multipliers.
Main objectives:
(1) To support active adaptation to climate change in urban and peri-urban environments by means of community-based knowledge creation and innovation.
(2) To support knowledge creation and innovation for concrete spatial transformation, such as green spaces and corridors, green infrastructure, urban gardens, urban nature, circular practices, sustainable mobility and a general enhancement of the urban commons.
(3) To build capacity for this democratic landscape transformation by transferring innovative methods that support inclusivity, reflexivity and innovation.
(4) To create an authentic, community-based learning environment within the social, environmental, cultural and economic context of Guimarães. This learning environment is a key prerequisite for implementing our capacity-building activities
The project is partly funded by the European Union.
