A fundamental challenge in particle physics is to understand nuclear forces from first principles. There is still no quantitative understanding of nuclear forces starting from elementary quarks and gluons degrees of freedom. The Skyrme model is an attempt to investigate nuclei in terms of an effective low energy theory. The model admits soliton solutions of topological nature and nuclei are to be identified to the quantized states of such solutions. In my talk I will introduce the ideas underlying the Skyrme Model.