EOE 2023 Itinerary
Upload pdf of the Conference Itinerary (Tuesday-Saturday)Tuesday 3.10.2023
Arrival and registration
18.00 Dinner & informal gathering
Poster presentations in the lobby area
Chiara Borelli: Intersectional lens in outdoor education to cope with the future
Hana Rozman & Gregor Torkar: School in nature and attitudes of primary school students towards the environment
Heli Eischer: Finnish Youth Centre network
Domen Ursic: Climate Goals and Content in Education
Irena Kokalj: Early Language Development in Nature
Wednesday 4.10.2023
7.00-8.00 Morning activities by Humak students
7.30-8.30 Breakfast
8.45-9.15 Conference opening
Keynote
9.15-9.45
Eeva Mäkelä: Resilience – Adventure Educator’s Future Competence in a Changing World
Workshops
You can choose 1 x 180 min or 2 x 90 min:
10.00
Kaisa Pietilä & Miia Riihimäki: Fight-Flight Response and Emotion Regulation (outdoor, 180 min)
Iira Tiitta: Harmony Within: Navigating Environmental Emotions with Solution-Focused Approaches (outdoor, 180 min)
Caroola Karhukorpi: Visiting Tiilikkajärvi National Park by Biking (2X8km=16 km) and Hiking (2X1,5km=3km) (outdoor, 180 min)
Sanna Jääskeläinen & Kaija Lackström: Nuotta Coaching at the Finnish youth centers (practical workshop 90 min)
11.45 - 13.15
Nina Waaramäki & Gun Hoikkala: Chilla Ute: mindfulness and a stronger nature connection for youngsters (outdoor 90 min)
13.30 – 15.00
Lunch
Oral Presentations
15.00-15.25
Tomás Aylward: Making the unfamiliar familiar; using technology to help build active connections to the more-than-human world for youth with intellectual disabilities
Jakob Frimann Thorsteisson: Outdoor leisure, tourism and education: What future for young people connection to popular destinations
(15 min break)
15.40-16.05
Zan Rode & Gregor Torkar: Using iNaturalist in education: Lessons learned
Riikka Puhakka & Paavo Heinonen: Effects of a hiking trip on adolescents’ perceived well-being – comparison with a drama workshop
(15 min break)
16.20-16.45
Juha Nieminen: Ideas about nature in Finnish youth work
18.00
Dinner
Evening activities, sauna, informal networking
Poster presentations in the lobby area
Chiara Borelli: Intersectional lens in outdoor education to cope with the future
Hana Rozman & Gregor Torkar: School in nature and attitudes of primary school students towards the environment
Heli Eischer: Finnish Youth Centre network
Domen Ursic: Climate Goals and Content in Education
Irena Kokalj: Early Language Development in Nature
Thursday 5.10.2023
7.00-8.00 Morning activities by Humak students
7.30-8.45 Breakfast
Keynote
9.00-9.45
Maarit Marttila & Mari Pienimäki: Re-thinking the significance of nature adventures in the light of a sustainable future: A case study of nature-based school camps for 9th graders
Workshops
You can choose 1 x 180 min or 2 x 90 min:
10.00
Huck Middeke: What is enough when y*our survival is at stake? A practical "Sinneswandel".... (outdoor, 180 min)
Siina Leinikka & Sanna Järvensivu: No-nature-walk (practical workshop 180 min)
Mira Pyökkilehto: Walk of senses - Metsäkartano's tool for finding place and strenght from nature (outdoor, 90 min)
Miia Riihimäki & Eeva Pekanheimo: Building a sustainable world - keeping hope alive and learning new professional skills through bilingual experiential education (outdoor 90 min)
11.45 - 13.15
Valtteri Liimula: Being here. Sharing, feeling and exploring why we are here. Time for thought, developing ideas in small groups and sharing in a larger one (outdoor, 90 min)
Nea Törnwall: Naturkraft: Empowering families through low threshold nature activities (outdoor 90 min)
13.30 – 15.00
Lunch
Oral Presentations
15.00-15.25
Hanna Loboda: Foraging for a sustainable tomorrow
Heather Prince: Developing a new place-based curriculum in schools in North-west England to build a more sustainable future through outdoor, environmental and experiential learning
Tommaso Reato: The forest is like me. Giving voice to uncertainty and open possibilities through nature based writing practices
(15 min break)
15.40-16.05
Stina Bang: CONSUMPTION CRAZE Outdoor environmental orienteering game for youth
Ruth Ennis: Smugglers Tales - Creativity
Dana Fedorchuk: As Within, So Without: Systems Change for World Peace
(15 min break)
16.20-16.45
Mark Leather & Jakob Frimann Thorsteisson: The Place Continuum. Taking Action on the Climate Crisis by Nurturing Our Connection to the Planet
18.00
Dinner
19.30
Annual general meeting
Evening activities, sauna, informal networking
Poster presentations in the lobby area:
Chiara Borelli: Intersectional lens in outdoor education to cope with the future
Hana Rozman & Gregor Torkar: School in nature and attitudes of primary school students towards the environment
Heli Eischer: Finnish Youth Centre network
Domen Ursic: Climate Goals and Content in Education
Irena Kokalj: Early Language Development in Nature
Friday 6.10.2023
7.00-8.00 Morning activities by Humak students
7.30-8.45 Breakfast
Keynote
9.00-9.45
Chris Loynes: Untying the knots: what can Outdoor Education contribute to the needs of the future
Workshops
Workshops (you can choose 2 x 90 min or 1 x 180 min):
10.00
Jussi Muittari: How to develop outdoor decision-making skills – Practical applications for using decision-making card (outdoor, 180 min)
Annika Schlüter & Stella Lossy: Sustainability management in outdoor education organisations (Grüne Wanze AG - BSJ Marburg) (indoor 90 min)
Tanja Liimatainen: Cultural Baking (indoor 90 min.)
Timo Haaksluoto: Fishbowl conversation over the topic of how to cope with the future in the context of adventure education (indoor 90min)
11.45 - 13.15
Seppo JA Karppinen: Place-based Learning in the Forest – from traditions to sustainability (outdoor)
Jari Korkalainen: Walk and talk about Metsäkartano and the Finnish Youth Centre network (outdoor and indoor)
13.30 – 15.00
Lunch
Oral Presentations
15.00-15.25
Ilkka Ratinen: Reflections on sustainable futures in outdoor education
Kaisa Pietilä: Nervous System, Stress and Coping in Outdoor Adventure Education
Gavin MacKenzie: Between places: critical questions for place-based educator in an age of mobility
(15 min break)
15.40-16.05
Alessandro Bortolotti: Learning out of the classroom: a survey of school and pre-school provision in Northern Italy
Karel Sterckx: Pathways to Resurrection
Verity Howell: The Feminisation of Nature: dualisms, domination and destruction
(15 min break)
16.20-16.45
TA Loeffler: We Must Go Quite Handy: How COVID-19, the Climate Crisis, and Aging Changed my Outdoor Education Practice for the Future
Tonia Gray & Marion Sturges & Jaydene Barnes: Preparing children to become risk technicians in a risk adverse society
18.00
Dinner
Evening activities, sauna, informal networking
Poster presentations in the lobby area:
Chiara Borelli: Intersectional lens in outdoor education to cope with the future
Hana Rozman & Gregor Torkar: School in nature and attitudes of primary school students towards the environment
Heli Eischer: Finnish Youth Centre network
Domen Ursic: Climate Goals and Content in Education
Irena Kokalj: Early Language Development in Nature
Saturday 7.10.2023
7.30–9.00 Breakfast
9.00 Conference closing
11.00 Bus departure / Lunch
12.45 Arrival at the airport and the railway station