What is NBS EduWORLD?

What is this project about?

The overall objective of NBS EduWORLD is to nurture an NBS literate society, supporting a just transition to a sustainable future. For this, NBS EduWORLD will create an NBS community that facilitates synergies between NBS professionals and education providers and ensures free and easy access to NBS knowledge and resources for all.

To achieve this goal, NBS EduWORLD will summarise the state of play of NBS education in Europe and evaluate the initiatives already in place, determine how to expand and replicate them and establish a basis and framework for the project itself and future initiatives, resulting in guidance and (policy) recommendations. In parallel, the project will analyse NBS demonstrators, with an educational dimension (Tier-1), across Europe (NBS EduSystems), to support the testing and improvement of approaches and resources with NBS demonstrators with no or a limited educational dimension (Tier-2) and create the means and opportunities for all NBS practitioners to engage with educators, inter alia via Tier-3 NBS EduSystems. This will be done whilst supporting the overarching goal of promoting NBS as a viable career prospect for European citizens of all ages.

To adequately engage educators who are at different points on their NBS journey, the project will provide specific activities for those who are not yet familiar with the concept and benefits of NBS, and those already aware but in need of support to progress to the next stage. These activities will be scaled up/out by extensive dissemination and communication activities to maximise the project’s outreach and ensure its long-term success. Only by joining with NBS experts, education experts, civil society and supportive policies can we create a NBS EduWORLD - a community that makes a difference.

Definitions

Nature-based solutions

Nature-based solutions (NBS) are solutions that are inspired and supported by nature, which are cost-effective, simultaneously provide environmental, social and economic benefits and help build resilience. Such solutions bring more, and more diverse, nature and natural features and processes into cities, landscapes and seascapes, through locally adapted, resource-efficient and systemic interventions.

Nature-based solutions must therefore benefit biodiversity and support the delivery of a range of ecosystem services.

Source: https://research-and-innovation.ec.europa.eu/research-area/environment/nature-based-solutions_en

See also the short video "What are nature-based solutions?" by NetworkNature.

Formal education

Formal education refers to the structured education system that runs from primary (and in some countries from nursery) school to university, and includes specialised programmes for vocational, technical and professional training. Formal education often comprises an assessment of the learners' acquired learning or competences and is based on a programme or curriculum which can be more or less closed to adaptation to individual needs and preferences. Formal education usually leads to recognition and certification.

Source: https://www.coe.int/en/web/european-youth-foundation/definitions#

Non-formal education

Non-formal education refers to planned, structured programmes and processes of personal and social education for young people designed to improve a range of skills and competences, outside the formal educational curriculum. Non-formal education is what happens in places such as youth organisations, sports clubs and drama and community groups where young people meet, for example, to undertake projects together, play games, discuss, go camping, or make music and drama. Non-formal education achievements are usually difficult to certify, even if their social recognition is increasing. Non-formal education should also be:

voluntary
accessible to everyone (ideally)
an organised process with educational objectives
participatory
learner-centred
about learning life skills and preparing for active citizenship
based on involving both individual and group learning with a collective approach
holistic and process-oriented
based on experience and action
organised on the basis of the needs of the participants.

Formal, non-formal and informal education are complementary and mutually reinforcing elements of a lifelong learning process.

Source: https://www.coe.int/en/web/european-youth-foundation/definitions#

Informal education

Informal education refers to a lifelong learning process, whereby each individual acquires attitudes, values, skills and knowledge from the educational influences and resources in his or her own environment and from daily experience. People learn from family and neighbours, in the market place, at the library, at art exhibitions, at work and through playing, reading and sports activities. The mass media are a very important medium for informal education, for instance through plays and film, music and songs, televised debates and documentaries. Learning in this way is often unplanned and unstructured.

Source: https://www.coe.int/en/web/european-youth-foundation/definitions#

NBS EduWORLD deliverables

All the deliverables produced by the project NBS EduWORLD are made publicly available. You can find here the deliverables related to the project management, communication and dissemination plan. All the other resources are part of the NBS EduDirectory, the resource landscape of NBS Education.

NBS EduWORLD Data Management Plan

Data Management Plan of the NBS EduWORLD project (Dec 2022), including information about the handling of research data during the project and after its end, types of data to be collected, processed and/or generated, methodology and standards, sharing of data, and how data will be curated and preserved (including after the project's end). Access here.

NBS EduWORLD Data Management Plan (Feb 2024)

Updated Data Management Plan of the NBS EduWORLD project (Feb 2024), including information about the handling of research data during the project and after its end, types of data to be collected, processed and/or generated, methodology and standards, sharing of data, and how data will be curated and preserved (including after the project's end). Access here.

NBS EduWORLD Dissemination and Exploitation Plan including Communication Activities

NBS EduWORLD Dissemination and exploitation plan (Jan 2023) including communication activities outlines the key project messages, informational materials, knowledge management plans, and dissemination approach employed by the project. The communication and dissemination activities (WP7) outlined in this document will be carried out from the very beginning (M1, September 2022) to the end of the project (M36, August 2025). Access here.

NBS EduWORLD Dissemination and Exploitation Plan including Communication Activities (Feb 2024)

Updated NBS EduWORLD Dissemination and exploitation plan (Feb 2024) including communication activities outlines the key project messages, informational materials, knowledge management plans, and dissemination approach employed by the project. The communication and dissemination activities (WP7) outlined in this document will be carried out from the very beginning (M1, September 2022) to the end of the project (M36, August 2025). Access here.

NBS EduWORLD is funded by the European Union (Grant Agreement No. 101060525). Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Commission. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.

What is NBS EduWORLD?

What is this project about?

Definitions

NBS EduWORLD deliverables

NBS EduWORLD Data Management Plan

NBS EduWORLD Data Management Plan (Feb 2024)

NBS EduWORLD Dissemination and Exploitation Plan including Communication Activities

NBS EduWORLD Dissemination and Exploitation Plan including Communication Activities (Feb 2024)

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