Learning Units
The NBS EduWORLD Learning Units page offers a comprehensive resource for higher education, with 50 curated learning units designed to bridge the gap between Nature-Based Solutions (NBS) and higher education (UG, PG, PhD). These units cater to third-level, entrepreneurial, and vocational education, providing insights into NBS concepts, educational frameworks, and real-world case studies from NBS EduWORLD demonstrator sites. Ideal for students and educators, the platform offers flexible, editable resources that support NBS integration into academic and professional development.
Steps to NBS Workshop I - Planning and Introducing Co-Production
This is the first of three workshop sessions navigating workshop participants through the initial planning stages of an NBS implementation with a focus on co-production. This learning unit workshop focuses on planning the goals drawing on the Connecting Nature one of the seven interrelated elements: co-production described during this workshop. Participants will consider a community context (e.g. space, location) for an NBS either from their professional or personal experience to work through workshop activities including to consider co-production activities including stakeholder mapping and the roles of key actors in the development of NBS.
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Educational Level: Higher Education
Language: English
Organisation: TCD
Steps to NBS Workshop II - Delivery with Co-Production
This is the second of three workshop sessions navigating workshop participants through the steps to the delivery of the coproduction of NBS in urban, rural or coastal context. This learning unit workshop focuses on delivery planning the goals drawing on the Connecting Nature Framework element: co-production. Participants are encouraged to consider a community context, that is, selecting an NBS in terms of location and scale, either from their professional or personal experience to work through workshop activities, including an assessment of the social, environmental and economic needs.
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Educational Level: Higher Education
Language: English
Organisation: TCD
Steps to NBS Workshop III - Stewardship
This is the third of three workshop sessions navigating participants through the steps to the stewardship of NBS in an urban context. Following the planning and delivery of an NBS intervention, this workshop focuses on stewardship (maintaining, monitoring and evaluation) navigating the Connecting Nature Framework. In this final iterative process of developing NBS, participants are encouraged to consider a community context, either from their professional or personal experience to apply to workshop activities.
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Educational Level: Higher Education
Language: English
Organisation: TCD
UrbanByNature: Going through Step 5 IMPLEMENT
In this Learning Unit, you will enter the role of a stakeholder at the fictional Evergreen School. Located in a city with 200,000 residents, Evergreen is facing sustainability challenges after a city council report reveals its poor sustainability performance in areas such as emissions, energy inefficiency, and biodiversity decline. A student-led survey further highlights issues of food waste and a lack of green spaces to address these challenges. The school principal, Mx. Green, initiates a mission to transform Evergreen School into a model of sustainability.- you will collaborate and co-develop knowledge regarding key elements in the nature-based solutions implementation process.
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Educational Level: Higher Education
Language: English
Organisation: ICLEI
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