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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Green Finance
The unit starts with a succinct overview of NBS initiatives and their importance in meeting the 2050 carbon-neutrality goal as oultined in the European Green Deal and European Green Law. Financing NBS ramifications are multifaceted in a sustainable economy.
Find here the editable version and the teaching note.
Educational Level: Higher Education
Language: English
Organisation: TCD
Harnessing Natural Processes for Climate Change Mitigation
This unit provides an overview of Nature-Based Solutions (NBS), particularly urban green spaces, and examines their role in enhancing cities by addressing climate change, flooding, and biodiversity loss. It explores EU policies, local government responsibilities, and community engagement in designing, implementing, and maintaining NBS.
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Educational Level: Higher Education
Language: English
Organisation: TCD
Harnessing Natural Processes for Climate Change Mitigation
This unit introduces Nature-Based Solutions (NBS) and their role in climate change mitigation, focusing on how they help to sequester carbon, reduce urban heat islands, and improve biodiversity. It examines key EU-funded projects like Urban GreenUP and ReGREEEN to illustrate the practical application of NBS in transforming urban environments and enhancing resilience against climate-related challenges.
Find here the editable version and the teaching note.
Educational Level: Higher Education
Language: English
Organisation: TCD
Implementing Nature-Based Solutions
This unit focuses on how Nature-Based Solutions (NBS) can be successfully implemented in cities to tackle challenges such as flooding, urban heat islands, and biodiversity loss. The session also highlights community engagement, collaboration strategies, and financial models that facilitate NBS, with examples from EU-funded projects like Connecting Nature.
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Educational Level: Higher Education
Language: English
Organisation: TCD
Nature-Inspired Design: Planning a field trip
Nature-based solutions are effective in their implementation with architecture and engineering processes in their nature-inspired design. This learning unit offers reflective questions and components to interrogate when designing a site visit or field trip to view nature-inspired design in-person. Examples of innovations in NBS nature-inspired design provide a context for analysis and debate for learners before and after the site visit. The connection of nature-inspired design and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) demonstrates how architecture, engineering and design contributes to addressing key challenges facing the planet.
Find here the editable version and the teaching note.
Educational Level: Higher Education
Language: English
Organisation: TCD
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