During the E³UDRES² Bootcamp 2025, we explore the power of emerging technologies in arts and culture to bring nature back into human experience. As part of the "Natur im Garten" initiative, your challenge is to design an experience that brings regionally relevant topics to life.
The E³UDRES² Bootcamp returns in 2025! Immerse yourself in nature, tackle real-world challenges and make lasting connections. This event invites students like you to work together across disciplines, explore Austria, develop creative solutions and make memories for a lifetime.
Our one-week Bootcamp combines teamwork, fresh perspectives, and expert guidance in a vibrant international setting. No matter your study programme or skill background - this event can be your chance to shine. In today’s busy world, it is more important than ever to bring nature back to our minds through meaningful experiences. By designing interactions that immerse us in its beauty, we can ensure that this essential knowledge isn’t lost, but becomes a lasting part of how we live, thrive, and reconnect with the environment. Join us as we set off on a journey to reconnect with nature, while designing experiences that speak to us. Together, let’s inspire a future where the wisdom of the natural world guide us toward a more sustainable and harmonious existence!
🗓️ Date
Bootcamp
7 - 11 July 2025
Online Sessions
24 June 2025 + individual online assignments until on-site event
📍 Location
St. Pölten, Austria (hosted at Sports Centre Lower Austria)
🙋♀️ Open for
Students from all E³UDRES² partnering institutions
🧑🤝🧑 Team Size
approx. 8 people per team
💬 Event Language
English
💰 Costs
Participation is free! Find more information concerning financial support and accomodation costs in our FAQ section.
🌟 ECTS
Students who complete the Bootcamp successfully will receive 3 ECTS.
All students have to verify whether the ECTS points will be recognised for their curriculum by their home university. For details, you can contact your local coordinator.
💥 Theme
Creative Roots: Designing Experiences Inspired by Nature is an immersive journey where we explore the power of emerging technologies in arts and culture to bring nature back into human experiences.
❤️ Why you should do it
Working in a Bootcamp acts as a trigger to improve skills like analytical thinking and problem-solving abilities, showing creativity in dealing with obstacles, and learning to work with different cultures and individuals!
Designing Experiences Inspired by Nature
Reconnect with your creative roots
The E³UDRES² Bootcamp is a unique opportunity to develop your ideas in an innovative environment and offer creative solutions for current regional challenges. Over the course of five days, you will be working in small teams with other E³UDRES² students on ways how to connect people with nature.
This Bootcamp invites you to blend technology, art, and nature in innovative ways to spark awareness and foster a sense of responsibility towards the planet we share. No matter if you come up with an app, board game, video, immersive exhibition, or hands-on gardening course - only your imagination is the limit!
Is the Bootcamp the right event for me?
✅ The answer is simple: Yes! The Bootcamp is open to students from any background and offers you the chance to actively work on real regional challenges together with the Austrian organisation Natur im Garten ("Nature In The Garden"). You will experience an innovative and creative working environment with support and motivation from our coaches and external stakeholders, where you will learn to develop an idea from a problem to a solution with impact.
✅ You will leave the Bootcamp with a deepened knowledge of nature-related topics, design thinking, intensive prototyping, and of course the E³UDRES² regions. Meeting new people from all over Europe and having a fun time in Austria is guaranteed!
Want to find out more about what the student experience in a E³UDRES² Bootcamp is like?
Read our Student Story of Kevin Njondimackal who joined the E³UDRES² Bootcamp 2023 here.
The challenge owner
Natur im Garten
In this Bootcamp, you will be working with Natur im Garten ("Nature in the Garden") - an organisation supported by the province of Lower Austria that promotes the greening of gardens and green spaces in Lower Austria and beyond its borders, as well as climate change adaptation and the promotion of biodiversity.
"Nature in the Garden" voices that gardens should be maintained without synthetic chemical pesticides, synthetic chemical fertilisers or peat. They attach particular importance to biological diversity and design with native, ecologically valuable and climate-friendly plants. By offering all kinds of gardening advice, blogs, podcasts, talks and live events, they support anyone interested in gardening topics with valuable knowledge.
Timeline of the Bootcamp 2025
until 10 March 2025 | 26 March 2025 | 24 June 2025 | 07-11 July 2025 |
Applications open | Announcement of participants | Mandatory Pre-Webinar | On-Site Bootcamp in St. Pölten, Austria |
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for the E³UDRES² Bootcamp 2025
Interested to join the Bootcamp 2025 in Austria and craft immersive nature experiences together with students from all around Europe?
Applications are open from 17 February 2025.
Information for students of the Polytechnic University of Setúbal (IPS): Note that there is a pre-selection of participants done before applications are possible through this page. Reach out to your local coordinators at IPS for more information.
FAQ
The E³UDRES² Bootcamp is a co-creation format, where students from different backgrounds and different countries work together to develop a common solution for current regional challenges under the guidance of mentors and experts. This year, the Bootcamp will be all about creating experiences that bring people closer to nature!
This format takes place online and on-site at St. Pölten UAS, Austria. Travelling to Austria during the specified on-site week is necessary.
Applying for participating in the Bootcamp does not mean that you automatically will have a slot for joining the event. Your application will be reviewed by a representative from your home institution and a selection of final participants will be made.
The full Bootcamp experience comprises the following parts:
Mandatory Pre-Webinar before the on-site Bootcamp on Tuesday, 24 June 2025, 17:00 – 18:30 (CET)
Online self-study tasks related to the Bootcamp topic
On-site Bootcamp in Austria where physical participation is compulsory. The event takes place from Monday, 07 July 2025 to Friday, 11 July 2025. You must be present every day from 8:30am to 16:00pm. The event is hosted at the Sportzentrum Niederösterreich, where the participants will also be accomodated
A Personal Development Portfolio & Team's Project Report are to be submitted after the on-site Bootcamp is over
All students from E³UDRES² partner universities can participate - no matter which study programme or background! Also, no prior knowledge is necessary. A total of 40 participants will be allowed to join the event.
Financial support is provided to participants depending on your home institution’s policies. Make sure to check with your local coordinator to know how much of your costs you can get reimbursed. The Bootcamp is organized as an Erasmus+ Blended Intensive Program.
Accommodation & meals: The venue is the Sportzentrum Niederösterreich (2.6 km from the train station St. Pölten) and is completely organized by the host. This accommodation is compulsory for all participants. The rooms are equipped with 3 or 4 beds and are separated by gender. The costs for the accommodation need to be paid directly by you at the check-in at the venue’s reception.
Costs: €80 per night, inclusive full board. (Arriving date: Sunday 6th July, departing date: Friday 11th July)
Travel: All travel arrangements must be organized independently by the participants (recommended arrival date: Sunday 6th July; event closing date: Friday 11th July)
You can reach out to us via office@eudres.eu for any questions.