Outdoor Education
Programs for Schools

The price includes transport from your school (within Croatia) or the airport to the education center and back, accommodation and food, equipment rental, 24-hour pastoral care by two instructors per group, all activities, and comprehensive insurance for all participants and accompanying persons.

The price depends on the number of days, students, and place of departure. Feel free to contact us with an inquiry, and we will send you a detailed offer.

We implement courses the whole year through. We recommend you when contacting us, note an approximate date when you want to come with your students, so we can check the availability of the center. Depending on the reservations of other groups, it can be possible to make last-minute changes to the date in case of an extremely bad weather forecast.

The smallest number of students that we hold a course for is 24, while the capacity of our center allows for 50 students at the same time. For larger groups, we can organize expedition-only courses.

No matter the total number of students, we deliver our program in groups of 10 to 15 participants. The groups are divided in the beginning, and each group is accompanied by 2 instructors.

The course is suitable for students from age 9 to 18. Naturally, we adapt the activities and learning outcomes to the particular participants' age.

During the course, the teacher's role is to observe, maintain communication with the students' parents, and take pictures of the activities, if the students want them to.

A detailed course curriculum is prepared and implemented by our instructors. That includes a written self-evaluation by the students at the end of a course. The days on a course a filled with activities and moving through nature, so, as a teacher, you won't have to think about how to organize the students' free time.

The school's accompanying person doesn't have to go on an expedition with the group unless the school's regulation requires you to be in your students' presence at all times. Our instructors offer 24-hour pastoral care to the students.

When you arrive at our center, you can rent personal and group gear you will need on your OB course. You can leave the things you brought along but don't need while on an expedition in the center. The personal gear everyone gets consists of a large hiking backpack, a sleeping mat and sleeping bag, and a headlamp. As a group, you will get a map and a compass, cooking gear, ropes and tarps for building a bivouac, and two hygiene kits.

Take comfortable, layered outdoor sports clothes. Your shoes should be comfortable for a whole day of activities in nature. You don't need to bring hiking boots if you don't own any. In that case, a pair of robust sneakers with a firm sole will be enough. In the preparation phase for the program, we'll send you a detailed packing list.

Our center is equipped with a professional kitchen where we will prepare three meals and two snacks per day during your stay in it.

Before going on the expedition, we'll provide you with foods that won't go bad in a backpack and that will keep you full. You'll get nuts and dried fruit, cheese, dry meat, fresh fruit and vegetables, energy bars, bread, meat-, fish-, and vegetable spreads. In the evenings, the participants will use simple recipes to prepare dinner for everyone on the campfire.

Should anyone of the participants have any special dietary needs, they need to advise us upfront. We'll make sure that they have everything they need on the course.

Depending on the length of a course, the participant's age, and previous arrangement, we will create a course offer that can include sport climbing, rappelling, caving, river-crossing, Jacob's ladder climbing, or raft-building.

All multi-day courses include an expedition with an overnight stay at a campsite. Apart from the main activities that we'll agree on in advance, the instructors will fill the day with team-building games and individual and group reflections.

An Outward Bound course gives participants the feeling of authentic adventure. To achieve that, they spend at least one night at a campsite in tents or bivouacs.

For some students, this will definitely be a challenge and push them out of their comfort zone. Our instructors are experts in working with children and youth. They will take enough time at the beginning of the course to build rapport and develop trust among the students. The instructors will offer enough attention and support to students who find themselves out of their comfort zone to prevent them from going into a panic zone.

A bivouac is an improvised shelter for spending a night outdoors. To make it, all you need are two tarps and a rope. Don't worry, the instructors will show you how to build it before you leave on expedition.

Students aged from 9 to 11 sleep in tents.

This is another aspect of outdoor life that the instructors will teach you about before leaving for your expedition. Water is in most of the locations you will be camping in a scarce resource, and our logistics staff needs to bring supplies to the site. These water supplies are used for cooking, dish-washing, brushing your teeth, and washing your hands.

The students will get a hygiene kit containing hand disinfectant and wet wipes, which they can use to refresh at the end of the day. When going to the bathroom in nature, you also need to follow the leave-no-trace principle: toilet paper and a small shovel are essentials in your expedition gear. 😉

Another crucial element of an Outward Bound course is that the participants are entirely technology-free for a few days.

A rule on the course is that the students leave their phones and other gadgets in a safe space in the education center, and we return them to them on the last day of the course. Our aim is to free them from the distractions that take away their attention from the immediate environment and their own thoughts.

To prepare the students for spending several days without a phone, we explicitly point out this rule in advance.

Since the program is packed with activities that require active engagement, and they are surrounded by peers the entire time, rest assured that a 5-day digital detox is not the slightest problem for the average teenager.

The students and the accompanying staff are all enrolled in comprehensive insurance during the whole course. The insurance is included in the price.

Alcohol and cigarettes are forbidden for everyone on the course at all times.