A breath of fresh air - enthusiasts take everyday life outdoors

"Stress-Free" Garden at Hellig Kors Church

Grant Recipient: Hellig Kors Church

Hellig Kors Church in Vesterbro will, in a one-year pilot project, offer outdoor activities for those suffering from stress, depression, anxiety, etc. The church will provide weekly community meetings where the project leader, who is a teacher in home economics and pedagogy, among other things, will offer scheduled outdoor activities such as vegetable and flower cultivation, cooking over a bonfire, pickling, etc. During the winter months, participants can make wreaths, candles, etc. The project "Stress-Free in the People's Church" has already been implemented in other city churches with great success. Participants there have stated that it has been an important sanctuary for them, and several of them have subsequently entered internships in flexible jobs.

Generational Space - Senior Area

Grant Recipient: Farre IF

With the project, the Farre Sports and Culture Association will establish an outdoor area for play and sports activities for the enjoyment of both children and adults in the local area. The granted part relates to the establishment of an activity area targeted at the city's elderly population.

Establishment of a Pump Track

Grant Recipient: Vemmedrup School

With the project, Vemmedrup School will have its own pump track, an advanced bike ramp that can be used both for playtime activities and motor skills training during breaks, as well as in school lessons where the track can be incorporated, for example, in mathematics tasks involving timing, speed, averaging, etc.

Local Historical QR Codes in Løgstrup

Grant Recipient: Løgstrup Citizens' Association

In the project, the Løgstrup Citizens' Association, in collaboration with the Løgstrup Local Historical Society, which will in turn collaborate with Løgstrup School and Viborg Animation School, will create creative outdoor project courses where everyone can rediscover local history on "virtual walks." At Løgstrup School, in collaboration with Viborg Animation School, animation films will be made to support the local historical routes, while the routes will also be supported by text and images aimed at adults, developed by the Local Historical Society. The goal is to get more generations out for a common walk in the fresh air, where they can also experience the city and local history, thus encouraging dialogue about the local area based on outdoor experiences.

Nature at Night

Grant Recipient: Holtum Local Council

With the project, an active local council, which has built a local gathering place/playground, useful composting toilets, and a shelter area, will provide even more opportunities for social outdoor activities at the gathering place.

Sustainable Food Production at Tinderhøj Forest Garden

Grant Recipient: Tinderhøj School

With the project, Tinderhøj School, which is a "Green Profile School," will establish sustainable food production in the Tinderhøj Forest Garden. The project will finance the establishment of the "Forest Garden." By financing the establishment of the garden, Rødovre Municipality has committed to hiring and financing a green coordinator (full-time) who will manage the establishment, operation, and maintenance of the Forest Garden.

"Experience the World" - Outdoor Communities in a Climate Era

Grant Recipient: NOAH - Friends of the Earth Denmark

With the project, the environmental movement NOAH will focus on activities aimed at children and young people's understanding of and well-being in today's climate crisis. NOAH is a Danish environmental organization and movement founded in 1969, and also functions as the Danish member of the worldwide grassroots network Friends of the Earth International.

Outdoor Life in a Reserve for Endangered Words

Grant Recipient: Nivaagaard Painting Collection

With the project, the Nivaagaard Painting Collection will upgrade and expand the existing "Word Reserve" in the museum's popular rhododendron park, which is open to everyone. In the park, you can explore both old and new Danish words written and explained on small signs. Language researcher Prof. Jørn Lund was a co-founder of this 'Reserve for Endangered Words', where the words reside, possibly to be rehabilitated into the Danish language later on. In the project, literature communicator Lea Fløe Christensen will also create "memory walks" in the park over a three-year period - in collaboration with, among others, Ældre Sagen Fredensborg. The project also collaborates with local schools, where young people help define the very latest words that are entering the Danish language, and which will also be included in the "Word Reserve."

Cultural Garden in the Heart of Aarhus K

Grant Recipient: Aarhus School of Architecture

With the project, a group of students from Aarhus School of Architecture will realize the project "Cultural Garden in the Heart of Aarhus K", which will become the new outdoor work and meeting place at the new architecture school, which opened in 2021. However, without green and active outdoor spaces, which the students will now change by developing and furnishing the barren outdoor communal areas themselves. The students, along with the school's carpenters and joiners, will contribute their own labor to the development and construction of the facilities.

With Art in Nature - Phase 2

Grant Recipient: Louisiana Museum

With the project, a Phase II in the project With Art in Nature will be realized, a pilot project carried out by Louisiana; Louisiana Learning and Louisiana Children's House, Humlebæk, during the Daylight Fund in 2019. In phase I of the project, the now permanently implemented teaching course "With Art in Nature" was developed, a rethinking and further development of the museum's other activities for children, based on the interaction between art and nature. The course also became a new educational offering with an accompanying book, and an international network of museum educators was established, who now meet once a year. In phase II, they will build on the foundation from phase I and disseminate the project's ideas and results by ensuring dissemination and anchoring of the project at the national level and further developing and qualifying the content of the new educational offering and strengthening its interdisciplinary focus.

Activity Area for Healthy Communities

Grant Recipient: Karup-Kølvrå Civic Forum

The citizens' association in Karup will create a simple balance/obstacle course in oak beams in an open green area in front of Karup School, which already serves as a meeting place for the local community. The obstacle course can be used for both play and sports, and the oak beams are rounded at the edges so they can also function as a comfortable sitting area. The idea for the project arose in dialogue with local children and young people about their wishes for the area.

Experience Tennis Courts - from Traditional Tennis Facility to Active Outdoor Life Year-Round

Grant Recipient: Ry Tennis Club

With the project, Ry Tennis Club will transform and renovate the traditional and worn tennis facility to also include an activity and play area for both children and adults around the courts. This will combine outdoor activities, socializing, play, and sports, allowing both children, young people, and the elderly to be together outdoors engaged in various activities.

Gribskov Outdoor School

Grant Recipient: Gribskov Little School

Gribskov Little School, Helsinge, will establish outdoor school facilities; a campfire hut, shelters, and an obstacle course, which will also be available for everyone in the local area as well

Outdoor Space – A Sensory World with Room for Diversity

Grant recipient: Copenhagen Zoo

With the project, Copenhagen Zoo can establish and furnish a larger outdoor area for daily outdoor classrooms for schools, institutions, and other visitors. The Zoo annually welcomes 1.2 million guests, of which the Zoo's School Service annually educates 40,000 students from daycares, primary schools, high schools, and vocational colleges. Through play and sensory experiences, the outdoor space and activities aim to increase curiosity and fascination for local wildlife and inspire actions in favor of local biodiversity. The project will be developed by the Zoo's education and communication team in collaboration with the Zoo's landscape designers and operations team, who have many years of experience in creating new, learning- and experience-based facilities at the Zoo.

The Atrium Courtyard - The Outdoor Singing Room, Library, and Democracy Space

Grant recipient: Testrup Folk High School

With the project, Testrup Folk High School can establish a unifying outdoor learning and gathering space that will naturally become the center for all the school's surrounding buildings and classrooms. The Atrium Courtyard is centrally located in the middle of the school's buildings, which will have direct access to the newly designed communal courtyard, where space will be arranged for various types of activities.

Ravnekæret's Cultural Staircase - Amphitheater for Cultural Activities

Grant recipient: Nyborg Municipality

With the project, the outdoor play and rest tableau "cultural staircase" will be established in the children's institution Ravnekæret. The cultural staircase opens up entirely new opportunities for teaching, play, events, performances, stays, etc., for both larger and smaller groups, young and old. And the Cultural Staircase is open to all citizens of the city and activities in general.

The Thing Place - An Outdoor Learning Space in Eskelunden

Grant recipient: Aarhus School of Architecture

The Aarhus School of Architecture and Aarhus Municipality will establish an outdoor learning and teaching space; "The Thing Place," in Eskelunden in Aarhus. The learning space is developed by the Aarhus School of Architecture and Aarhus Municipality, building on a longstanding collaboration on new urban nature in Eskelunden between the Aarhus School of Architecture, Aarhus Municipality, the Natural History Museum, and the Center for Biochange at Aarhus University.

Hub for Natural Community

Grant recipient: Mandø Association

With the project, the local Mandø Association is granted assistance in realizing the project Hub for Natural Community, which concerns the renovation and establishment of a new central cultural gathering place for Mandø's residents and visitors. Mandø is visited annually by 140,000 tourists, who primarily come to experience the island's unique nature, and for this purpose, the island lacks a community center that can bring together associations and activities.

Bringing More Daylight and Fresh Air into Everyday Life

Grant recipient: Haastrup Free School

Haastrup Free School in Faaborg will establish an outdoor learning and play staircase with countless opportunities for outdoor play and education. At the same time, the school building will be opened up with a large glass section that invites light inside and elegantly connects the "outdoor" and "indoor."

Staircase Garden

Grant recipient: Aalborg Chang

With the project, the football and sports association Aalborg Chang, Aalborg, can utilize a large unused outdoor area belonging to the club to establish outdoor facilities with various activity options. This includes an activity staircase with seating, ramps for play, running, wheelchair races, parkour, etc., sloped garden, dining areas, event spaces, etc. The outdoor area will be accessible to both the club's users and all citizens of the city.

The Outbuilding - Denmark's Smallest and Greenest Activity House

Grant recipient: Friends of the Outbuilding

The local citizen group "Friends of the Outbuilding" in Værløse will renovate the small gathering and activity house "The Outbuilding," which is a former forest operation house of 35m2, located on the outskirts of Hareskoven. With the renovation, they will, among other things, open up the house with more light through larger windows, establish a kitchen, etc. Funds are also allocated for activities that involve the local community and raise awareness of the association and the activity offerings for children and adults.