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Towards Participatory Education

Without meaningful participation, schools risk becoming environments of passive compliance rather than spaces of active engagement and growth.

Inquiry Based Learning – A Student-Centered Pathway to Knowledge

Imagine entering a 21st-century classroom characterized by engagement and curiosity. Welcome to Inquiry-Based Learning (IBL), an educational approach that redefines the learning experience as a collaborative exploration.

Decolonizing Education: What Does It Mean to Decolonize the Curriculum?

The ongoing influence of what many scholars call coloniality: the lasting impact of colonial ways of thinking and organizing the world (Quijano, 2007). And one of the places where this shows up most clearly is in school curricula

Statement on World Day of Social Justice 2025

policy

Joint Statement: A Roadmap for Every Child

The next European Union (EU) long-term budget has the potential to invest in all children, everywhere.

Call for a child-centred EU budget: Joint reaction to the Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) Proposal

The next European Union (EU) long-term budget has the potential to invest in all children, everywhere.

For a More Holistic Focus on Education – Enhancing the “Union of Equality” Strategy 2021-2030

Sampo Kolu, our youngest advisory board member, has formally submitted his response to the European Commission’s consultation on “Enhancing the EU Strategy for the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.

UN Call: Inputs on Curriculum, Pedagogy & Assessment

At QUEST we mobilized our network of schools, composed of both alternative and traditional schools across Europe, to answer the suggested questionnaire. In the first part of the document we provide you with summaries of their answers based on the educational model.

project reports

The Reclaiming Education Toolkit

This toolkit wants to demystify EU advocacy and help you navigate local and European decision-making, so that your school / organisation can raise their concerns and visions for education at different levels.

The Change We Want: A Manifesto by Rural Young People in Europe

At QUEST, we believe young people don’t need adults to translate what they want to say. Too often, they are tokenised, routinely consulted to check a box, yet shut out from meaningful decision-making on the very issues that shape their lives. They need real space to say it, and real doors opened to the people who can act on it. Giving rural youth the room to define their own demands, in their own words and their own format, and then walking those demands into institutions like the EESC and the Committee of the Regions, is exactly the kind of empowerment we exist to make possible.

Exploring Gender Dynamics in Forest School Kindergartens

This report explores how gender dynamics manifest in children’s play and interactions within outdoor kindergarten environments that follow the Forest School pedagogy.

From Eco-Anxieties to Action

On October 17 th 2025, 35 young participants from Lithuania, Ireland, Bulgaria, and Italy gathered in Brussels, Belgium, to bring eco-anxiety into light in front of Members of the European Parliament (MEPs), youth workers, and peers.

VIDEOS

SUVEMAE, Pioneer of Possibility

How a democratic ‘school in a school‘ in Tallinn could pave the way for transforming public education in Europe

BUSTA documentary

BUilding Skills in schools through Training therapy Animals

YGBN documentary

Youth Going Back to Nature – Engage, Connect, Empower

QUEST in the press

Democratic education in public schools: is it possible?

QUEST DOCUMENTS

QUEST Activities Report 2025

QUEST Communication and Dissemination Report 2024

QUEST Events Report 2024

QUEST Activities Report 2024