Learning Units
The NBS EduWORLD Learning Units page offers a comprehensive and flexible suite of resources designed to integrate Nature-Based Solutions (NBS) into higher education and professional training. With 50 curated Learning Units, this platform supports educators, students, and practitioners at all levels—undergraduate (UG), postgraduate (PG), doctoral (PhD), vocational, and entrepreneurial.
Covering a broad spectrum of themes and contexts, the Learning Units are structured around key educational streams:
- Common Core Units introduce foundational NBS concepts, such as ecosystem services, biodiversity, and the SDGs.
- 3rd Level Units target university-level learners, with a focus on implementation, policy, social inclusion, and future urban development.
- Entrepreneurial Units support learners exploring nature-based enterprises, business models, green finance, and sector-specific NBS opportunities.
- Vocational Units are tailored for practical skills development, project management, policy engagement, and multi-level governance.
- Case Studies and Workshops offer real-world applications and participatory methods from NBS EduWORLD demonstrator sites across Europe.
Each unit is aligned with European Qualification Framework (EQF) levels, ranging from Level 6 to Level 8, ensuring academic relevance and adaptability.
These Learning Units are editable and adaptable, supporting custom integration into curricula, practice-oriented, blending theory with applied learning, and geographically diverse, reflecting urban, rural, and coastal NBS contexts.
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Whether you're a lecturer seeking ready-to-use teaching materials, a student exploring sustainability, or a professional upskilling in green innovation, the NBS EduWORLD Learning Units offer a unique, user-friendly gateway into nature-based thinking and action.
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Policy and Governance Frameworks for NBS in Europe
Europe has demonstrated its support and leadership in NBS implementation. The development of NBS on the continent is supported by European policy and governance frameworks. This module presents these frameworks in the context of various European projects focused on NBS in urban, rural and coastal communities. The focus on GreenComp - The European Green Competency Framework and the recent EU Nature Restoration Law (2024) and a policy on NBS and Nature Positive Economy will be highlighted. EU projects that offer insights into policy development and frameworks for NBS implementation will also be highlighted and interrogated during this Learning Unit.
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Educational Level: Higher Education
Language: English
Organisation: TCD
Public procurement for NBS
This unit provides an understanding of public procurment, and highlights its role in the promoting amd implementing NBS in urban areas by providing an overview of procurement practices, challenges, and opportunities for using public procurement to implement NBS projects.
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Educational Level: Professional
Language: English
Organisation: PPMI
Rewilding and Biodiversity Conversation with NBS
This learning unit explores how nature-based solutions can be applied to rewilding to promote biodiversity, create new ecosystems, and restore degraded urban landscapes. By examining the combination of rewilding and conservation strategies, learners can assess how this can enhance or strengthen ecosystems. Learners are presented with examples of NBS use in rewilding and biodiversity conservation to reflect on the benefits to the ecosystem and sustainability.
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Educational Level: Higher Education
Language: English
Organisation: TCD
Skills for NBS
This unit discusses the variety of career opportunities in the NBS sector, including roles in urban planning, environmental science, community engagement, and technology. Students will learn about the skills and qualifications required for these careers, as well as the importance of EU research projects, entrepreneurship, and business innovation in the growing NBS field.
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Educational Level: Higher Education
Language: English
Organisation: TCD
Social Inclusion and NBS
The integration of NBS may exacerbate social exclusion, such as greening projects contributing to increased rents and, as a result, the displacement of residents. Political will and awarenes of greening through NBS needs to be in place to enact NBS in communities, which may not be in place or prioritised for disadvantaged communities. This Learning Unit explores the challenges of inclusion and NBS implementation along with the unintended consequences of exclusion that may occur through case study analysis through pathways of inclusion Learners gain a deeper understanding that NBS needs to involve diversity in community and stakeholder engagement, including from under-represented voices to ensure equal access, participation and benefits of NBS for all.
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Educational Level: Higher Education
Language: English
Organisation: TCD
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