Escola Artística de Soares dos Reis is participating in the Erasmus+ project entitled Plant&Paint - "Natural paints for sustainable art and crafts", in the years of 2025 and 2026. Six more European schools participate in this project, from: Czech Republic, Finland, Greece, Italy, Latvia, Portugal and Spain. 

The aim of the project is to integrate the use of natural paints into design and arts training programs to encourage artists, designers and other creative professionals to make their practices sustainable.

For this purpose, a dye-plant garden was created at the school so that students could learn how to cultivate each plant and extract its pigments, encouraging them to create sustainable artistic projects in various areas of art.