ULE Environmental Learning Workshop

Osterholz-Tenever Nature Encounter Center

Experiencing, exploring, and understanding nature and the environment – ​​the Environmental Learning Workshop in Osterholz-Tenever has been offering this for twelve years. Our learning units are designed for children of various ages, as well as adults. Games in nature, field observations, experiments, and the examination of materials collected from the natural world play a central role. The Environmental Learning Workshop is available to school classes, after-school and kindergarten groups, neighborhood initiatives, and, as part of events from our program, to all children, adults, and families. Appropriate facilities, such as a seminar room and workshop, as well as equipment for nature observation and investigation, are of course available. The ULE team provides guidance and support.

The environmental learning workshop is located on the grounds of the Egestorff Foundation in Osterholz-Tenever. Its location within a 28-hectare park allows for easy access to nature. The park boasts an ancient, diverse collection of trees, a small forest, meadows, streams, ponds, and pools. Wildlife such as squirrels, songbirds, and bats, as well as numerous insect species and microorganisms, can be observed here. Farm animals like geese, cattle, sheep, ponies, and goats also roam the extensive grounds of the Egestorff Foundation.

What do we do?

• Individual events for children, and possibly also for adults and families, are listed in our program booklet.
• We offer learning units for schools, daycare centers, after-school programs and similar institutions.
• Project weeks and project days, for example on the topic of apple juice, are frequently booked by schools, kindergartens, and after-school care centers. For these institutions, activities with and within the ULE (University Learning Center), such as an environmental club, are also possible over longer periods.
• We lend out useful items, such as an apple juice press or a wonderful barefoot sensory path, also with support from our staff.
• Excursions and trips for children and/or adults have interesting destinations in Bremen, but also more distant landscapes as their destination.
• Adult education courses take place in a large and welcoming seminar room and are offered as one- or multi-day seminars. ULE's educational leave programs are officially recognized by the state of Bremen as adult education courses.
• Long-term projects, such as various nature conservation activities, are developed in cooperation with initiatives and institutions. For example, the working group "Renaturation of the Embser Mühlengraben" was formed in this way.