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.
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NBS community project management
This Learning Unit introduces the essential action areas for effectively managing NBS community projects: how to develop project intervention logic, engage stakeholders, ensure project sustainability, and measure impact. Interactive activities allow learners to practive the application of these actions on hypothetical scenarios of NBS projects.
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Educational Level: Professional
Language: English
Organisation: PPMI
Pitching for Nature-Based Enterprises
Pitching is a vital skill for a nature-based enterprise to master if conventional investors are to be convinced of its value and invest. This learning unit will empower the learner to understand the art of pitching for investment. In this unit, participants will learn the core elements of a successful pitch and be equipped with tips and tricks to avoid some of the most common pitfalls when pitching. By the end of this learning unit, the participant will have the necessary know-how to develop content for their own pitch deck.
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Educational Level: Professional
Language: English
Organisation: Horizon Nua
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
UrbanByNature: Going through Step 3 and 4 PRIORITISE, COMMIT AND PLAN
An introduction to prioritise, plan and commit steps of the UbN capacity building programme. The focus of this learning unit is to make the target audience to actively think about the co-creation aspects relevant for NbS and give an overview of challenges associated with getting commitment from stakeholders for NbS implementation and how to tackle them.
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Educational Level: Professional
Language: English
Organisation: ICLEI
What is nature-based entrepreneurship?
All humans and all businesses need a healthy planet to survive and prosper. However, the steep decline in nature and biodiversity, intertwined with the climate and pollution crisis, are resulting in the increased frequency and severity of natural disasters with devastating impacts for nature and society. This learning unit sets the context for transformative change explaining how transforming businesses and economic systems to work with, and for, nature can help to reverse these negative trends. In this unit, participants will learn about nature-based solutions and nature-based enterprises and various initiatives supporting businesses in this transition. Participants will reflect and analyse the mission of their business (or idea) and consider their alignment with nature-based solutions, nature-based enteprises in the context of the wider economy. They will learn about and be invited to engage with new initiatives for businesses in the nature-positive economy.
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Educational Level: Professional
Language: English
Organisation: Horizon Nua
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