Hortus Medicus Team

Therapeutic Horticulture vocational training in 2025

After the closing of the Hortus Medicus project, our team will start a Therapeutic Horticulture vocational training in Hungary in 2025. The details are written below in Hungarian: A képzés célja, hogy a résztvevők a terápiás kertművelést, mint a szakmájukat támogató eszközt ismerjék meg, és segítségével a gondjukra bízott személyeket terápiás kertművelés foglalkozásokba vonják be. …

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Focus on Therapeutic horticulture – report from the closing event of Hortus Medicus project

On 31 January 2025, the final conference of the Hortus Medicus Erasmus+ project was organised by the Hungarian University of Agricultural and Life Sciences, with a large number of participants from various fields. The event explored the topic of therapeutic horticulture, which topic is quite new in Hungary, from a variety of approaches: from the …

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„Fókuszban a terápiás kertművelés” – HORTUS MEDICUS projekt záró rendezvénye

Végéhez közeledik a három éven át tartó, terápiás kertművelés képzés tanmenetét és kézikönyvet kidolgozó, Hortus Medicus Erasmus+ nemzetközi projektünk. A záró rendezvényre invitálunk minden kertterápiás tevékenység iránt érdeklődőt, szociális és pedagógiai szakembereket, gazdálkodókat, tájépítészeket. A rendezvény ingyenes, de regisztrációhoz kötött. A rendezvényen maximum 65 főt tudunk fogadni. A terem limitált befogadóképessége miatt a jelentkezéseket a …

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The Therapeutic Horticulture pilot training has ended in Gödöllő

At the end of September, the Therapeutic Horticulture training in Gödöllő held jointly by the MATE and ELTE BGGYK teachers and Diversity Foundation’s professional staff, has a successful end. 19 Participants – social workers, special school teachers, farmers, gardener, psychologist, landscape architect – completed the theoretical and practical training, which consisted of five modules, with …

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The successful start for the Hortus Medicus pilot training in therapeutic horticulture

The Hortus Medicus pilot training was launched on April 19th in Gödöllő with the first module: Basics of Therapeutic Horticulture. We were very pleased with the high interest on the topic of therapeutic horticulture and to receive plenty of applications from social workers, farmers, teachers etc. From more than 60 applicants, 19 participants were chosen …

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Therapeutic horticulture sessions with elderly people

Therapeutic horticulture sessions in a Gödöllő senior’s home were organised in connection with the Hortus Medicus project in May, June and July 2023. The motivation was mainly to gain experience, as there were very few similar initiatives in Hungary. A series of 10 sessions with 5 participants took place for one and a half hours …

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