Visitors to Golovec hill are delighted by the new urban equipment that we installed in the city forest within the framework of the European URBforDAN project in the past days.

Among other things, we set up information boards, signposts and direction boards, wooden benches, tables and platforms, and created several learning points. In the city forest Golovec, which is the focus area of ​​the URBforDAN project, we designed eight entry points. There we set up information boards and added bike racks. We also set up two larger information boards inside the forest at two key intersections. We also erected 30 wooden pillars or totems to guide visitors and 13 posts with educational or informative functions. There are three marked forest playrooms, which are mainly used for playing and learning by the nearby kindergartens and schools.

The purpose of the boards and totems is primarily to guide, inform, raise awareness and educate users of the Golovec city forest. The boards show a detailed map of the area and its surroundings, the course of all routes for visitors and their connections to the city transport infrastructure in the vicinity of the city forest, and also mark various points of interest.

Emphasis on forest pedagogics

In the URBforDAN project, we pay special attention to forest pedagogics, which is why we have introduced several learning points, among which two forest classrooms or teaching aids are especially interesting – a display case presenting indigenous tree species at Golovec and a forest planetarium. They are intended for the education of both children and the youth as well as adult visitors.

Two »quiet« relaxation platforms

Despite the city's proximity, the Golovec city forest offers alcoves that the city noise cannot reach. In two such »quiet areas« – at Mali bajer and Rakovnik and along Dolgi potok and Štepanjsko naselje – we designed special relaxation areas by building wooden platforms and erecting totems.

About the project

The purpose of the project is to continue to appropriately care for urban forests, to tend to them in harmony with nature, and to offer relaxing, physical, and educational content for visitors. 12 project partners are participating in the URBforDAN Project, as well as four associated project partners. The City of Ljubljana, the leading partner, is joined by Vienna (Austria), Budapest (Hungary), Zagreb (Croatia), Belgrade (Serbia), Cluj-Napoca (Romania), and Ivano-Frankivsk (Ukraine). The partnership is complemented by the Slovenia Forest Service, Főkert – a non-profit organization that manages forests and parks in Budapest, the companies Hrvatske šume d.o.o and JP Srbijašume, as well as the CLuj-Napoca Metropolitan Organization. Prague, Podgorica and Sarajevo, as well as the FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization), within the framework of the United Nations, are the associated partners of the project.