Education about sustainable development is more or less compulsory in schools indifferent levels all over Europe.The forests play an important role in a sustainable society due to its economical,environmental, social and cultural values. In this project we want to create a methodwhich will facilitate the teaching and improve the learning about forests and how itinfluences the every-day life for all of us. The target group is teachers in compulsoryschools and the method should fit for children from the age of 12.The project will be based on a problem-based methodology which is developed at theUniversity of Juensuu in Finland. In this methodology the children use a computer basedplanning tool. With this tool the pupils can plan in advance an excursion to forests,forest industry, forest museum or some other place. The pupils have to choose aresearch problem or a question they are interested in and decide how they will solve it.Then they do their research, interviews, study visits or another activity. In the finalanalysis they share the results of their study; how have they been able to open theconcept sustainability and what did they discover?In the project we will test the methodology in all eight countries and we will adjust it fornational conditions.We believe that this methodology will increase the value of forest pedagogy and it willbe used by all organisations in the consortium. We also believe that it will be of interestfor teachers who like to improve the education about sustainability especially when itcomes to forests.Besides the methodology, the project will result in a web-page which will includeteacher-manuals, fact-sheets about sustainable development with emphasis on forestsand contacts and links to other useful pages in different countries. Except for theteacher manuals, which will be in eight languages, the web-page will be in English.The consortium consists of 12 partners from 8 different countries; Sweden, Finland,Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Bulgaria. We representboth the education sector and forest sector and have long experience of forestpedagogic.