Environmental education and awareness are principal components of all SPEA projects, inseparable from the conservation actions, targeted at key audiences depending on the goals and subjects at hand. Besides integrating environmental education into the projects, SPEA also creates events, mostly aimed at young and family audiences, sometimes in a school setting. Although focused on birds, many of these initiatives touch other interconnected subjects, namely biodiversity, climate change, environmental impacts, citizenship, etc. In terms of environmental education and awareness, SPEA goals are to:

•Promote environmental awareness on subjects related to birds and ecosystems conservation;

•Promote Birdwatching in Portugal;

•Work with schools and teachers promoting their knowledge and connection to birds and nature in their country or region;

•Promote volunteering for the conservation of habitats, eradication of exotic plant species, bird population census, etc.

OWL is a great opportunity to promote the exchange of experiences with other European countries in the area of Environmental Education, which brings more knowledge and expertise to our work.
It is also a wonderful way of promoting and spreading our work throughout other European countries, usually projects are implemented at a national level.
It is an opportunity for growing and expanding throughout our borders, by sharing experiences, exchanging knowledge and acquiring new capacities and abilities that we can implement in our daily work.
By gathering in a platform with other European institutions, we think SPEA will become stronger, because the access to quality information and good examples in environmental education, as in other areas, increases exponentially.