The initial group expanded, offering training seminars for interested teachers and, in 1994, created the Learning to Learn Project, which submitted an ongoing training project to the recently created Scientific Pedagogical Council for Teacher Training.

Having been accredited by the aforementioned training body, the Learning to Learn Project ran nationwide until 2005, involving hundreds of teachers and, indirectly, thousands of students. From the outset, it was inspired by Rudolf Steiner’s anthropology, which was always the foundation on which its work developed, year after year, adapting to the needs of the groups of teachers who took part in it, so that they could help their students.

Accompanied by pedagogical research at doctoral level, carried out at the University of Grenoble, he was tutored by Prof. Dr. Jean Berbaum, from the University of Grenoble, who followed all the work carried out on the ground in schools until 2002, using PADéCA, the Program to Support the Development of Learning Capacities, as a pedagogical tool, also inspired by the image of the human being on which R. Steiner built his educational proposal.
It was a long and enriching job that consolidated the group that started it, in a stable and increasingly clear relationship about the future school they dreamed of putting into the world.

Above all, they learned to put Waldorf pedagogy at the service of educating the human being, child, adolescent or adult, in the exact terrain where their lives took place, adapting to their individual needs the enormous potential that Steiner’s educational legacy has left us.

Finally, in September 2004, once the physical space where HARPA was based had been found, the impulse turned into an unavoidable desire to welcome children into it (perhaps the school they had always dreamed of…) and so the embryo of a kindergarten was born, immediately named Jardim do Monte.

More and more clearly, the characteristics of the physical space, in which the physical body of the long-dreamed-of school would later gradually be erected building by building, revealed an immense hidden and exciting treasure through the children themselves: in the natural richness of its contours, its colors, in the life of the animals that populate it, in the constant metamorphosis that everything goes through, the essence of life on earth flows in the space around each child, announcing to them in each experience the meaning and direction that each human life can find within this great House where they were born.
With the passing of the first three years of Jardim do Monte’s existence, in September 2007, it was also the children who completed this journey, who made it unavoidable to continue accompanying them in this space that every day announced to us the irreplaceable richness it poured into each child’s growth.

The Jardim do Monte School was born and officially opened in September 2011. It was one of the first two Waldorf schools in Portugal, the only one to date, located on a farm, whose natural resources, as irreplaceable educational masters, have been cared for and preserved according to the fundamentals of biodynamic agriculture, the great ally of Man’s educational journey on Earth.

Aware of the privilege of living there under the watchful eye of a group of teachers who have been walking side by side since 1992, looking towards a future that they all want, the Jardim do Monte School today presents itself to the world as a place of outer and inner growth, which Anthroposophy nurtures day by day, enlivened by the permanent presence of nature, boasting, as its faithful custodian, the truth and beauty of life on Earth.

It is in its midst that Waldorf Pedagogy, as well as carrying out much of its learning at the source of knowledge, can find the physical and soul envelope on a daily basis to fulfill its mission with each Man in the process of becoming, which each child carries, so that he can find the meaning of his life and the potential of his spiritual freedom that consciously links him to the life of the planet he inhabits, contributing to its preservation and, consequently, to the development of humanity.

The Jardim do Monte School currently offers kindergarten, 1st and 2nd cycles of basic education and is recognized as a Waldorf school by the Ministry of Education.

It was recognized in 2008 as a Waldorf School within the framework of the International Movement of Waldorf Schools and also, since 2013, as a school in the Unesco Associated Network of Schools.