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DOI: 10.11118/978-80-7701-087-0-0156

FOREST THERAPY AND FOREST BATHING IN 5 EUROPEAN COUNTRIES – BASIC DESCRIPTION

Jitka Fialová1, Dastan Bamwesigye1, Şevval Polat2, Elif Şenel2, Emilia Janeczko3, Malgorzata Woznicka3, Krzysztof Czyżyk3, Linas Daubaras4, Rasa Povilioniene4, Pietro Picuno5
1 Department of Landscape Management, Faculty of Forestry and Wood Technology, Mendel University in Brno, Zemědělská 1, 613 00 Brno, Czechia
2 Department of Tourism Management, Eskisehir Osmangazi University, 26040, Eskisehir, Turkiye
3 Institute of Forest Sciences, Warsaw University of Life Sciences—SGGW, Nowoursynowska 159, 02-776 Warsaw, Poland
4 Faculty of environmental engineering, Lietuvos Inzinerijos Kolegija Higher Education Institution, Tvirtovės Av. 35, LT-50155 Kaunas, Lithuania
5 Department of Agricultural, Forestry, Food and Environmental Sciences —DAFE, University of Basilicata, Via dell’Ateneo Lucano n°10, 85100 Potenza, PZ, Italy


Project Integrating Nature into Higher Education: Forest Bathing has the mail goal to create digital training modules on forest bathing to make forest bathing more known and accessible. It is important to first increase the skills and knowledge of the education personnel for this purpose. When academics reach a sufficient level of knowledge about forest bathing, they will contribute to the society benefiting from the importance of nature on the mental health and well-being of individuals. Our aim is to make the idea of forest bathing more accessible to academics and students in other fields, including forestry and social sciences, with digital training modules. In this article we are desribing the basic of the state of art of the forest therapy and forest bathing in 5 european countries.

Keywords: Articles, literature review, methodology, Europe

pages: 156-161, Published: 2026, online: 2026



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