The project idea was conceived after spring-summer of COVID-19 and we witnessed increased activity of people in the nature: more hikes in nature parks and forests, more people in parks, having picnics, spending time with friends and family while socially distancing. Unfortunately this positive change towards outdoors activity had some negative consequences. There was more noise in the forest, more traces of human activity, more garbage, fire places etc. A good initiative to spend time with nature was negated by lack of basic knowledge of what rules there are of behaving in nature, what is safe, what you can and cannot do in the nature. Overall concern was that young people have been less exposed to being outdoors, and they have not been taught the basics of wilderness skills and safety rules, and unwritten rules. With outdoors activities becoming more popular, was ever more important to train youth workers how to organize activities with young people in a due manner, involve young people in promoting environmental sustainability, use proper adventure education pedagogical approaches and discover more opportunities for professional development. Partner organizations realized the need to incorporate more outdoors activities especially after meetings indoors have been limited. However, it was a new type of activity for many, and youth workers realized that they needed further training to efficiently implement non-formal learning activities in the nature. In order to create safer opportunities to explore nature for young people, we wanted to share knowledge, accumulated by environmental educators from Hyvärilä youth centre within many years of experience in running environmental programs. To that end, we partnered up with youth organizations, which share our concerns to organize a training for beginners. In Hyvärilä youth centre we saw the need of connecting young youth workers, who are eager to develop environmental education skills, with more experienced colleagues, and with professionals from Nature parks, and LYKE-environmental school network, to give them more opportunities for growth and learning. An international exchange within this training was a great opportunity to expand horizons of thinking about adventure pedagogy and learning international prospective. Connecting with other young youth workers was a great way to build partnership networks for future cooperation in their professional activity. Sharing values and priorities within this training would allow to build trust and understanding, which is a stepping stone for any future cooperation between participants.