NBS EduWORLD Academy
Empowering educators to lead the way in NBS Education
The NBS EduWORLD Academy is dedicated to building a community of expert teachers ready to inspire the next generation to navigate real-world challenges through Nature-Based Solutions.
For this reason, and to ensure the long-term impact of NBS Education across Europe and beyond, the Academy:
- offers various training and learning opportunities,
- provides innovative teaching and learning approaches and tools to help educators design effective and engaging lessons, NBS projects, and living lab concepts,
- promotes Inquiry-Based Science Education,
- supports educators in their career professional development.
Schools as Living Labs
Scenarios of Plausible Futures for NBS in Education
This document describes and analyses the different pathways for the transformation of the schools into NBS Living Labs through the Whole School Approach, providing a structured set of Scenarios of Plausible Futures for NBS in Education that can act as a reference point for the project’s implementation with the large users’ communities.
A Roadmap towards NBS Living Labs
The roadmap offers a guide for educators and school leaders to transform their schools into NBS Living Labs following the Whole School Approach. It highlights key stages from vision-setting and stakeholder engagement to planning and hands-on activities, while integrating innovative pedagogies such as inquiry-based learning.
It provides a structure to follow to facilitate the process of envisioning, managing, and monitoring change related to NBS in school settings. Grounded in real stories of implementation, it empowers schools to create meaningful, student-centered NBS environments.
How to develop my school’s Action Plan
The template supports schools in developing their own ‘School as NBS Living Lab’ Action Plan by guiding them through a structured reflection and planning process.
How to conduct workshops using the Living Lab methodology
This ready-to-use worksheet supports the design and facilitation of hands-on workshops based on the Living Lab methodology. It guides students and educators through co-design, exploration, experimentation, and evaluation phases, helping them identify local NBS challenges, develop solutions, and test them collaboratively.
Inspiring Stories of Implementation
The NBS EduWORLD Schools Community shares moments of their journey in NBS Education.
Teaching and Learning for NBS
The NBS EduWORLD Community within the Open School for Open Societies Platform brings together teachers and school heads who are transforming their schools into living labs for sustainability through NBS.
The community is a place for exchanging ideas, showcasing good practices, finding teaching and learning material, and connecting with like-minded schools across Europe committed to rethinking education through the lens of nature and sustainability.
Professional Development
NBS EduWORLD International Training Course 2024
The NBS EduWORLD Summer School 2024 involved expert teachers and school heads with extensive and long-standing activity in green and STEM projects to support them in the transformation of their schools into NBS living labs.
NBS EduWORLD International Training Course 2025
The NBS EduWORLD Summer School 2025, involved expert school heads and teachers with extensive and long-standing activity in green and STEM projects to support them in the transformation of their schools into NBS living labs.
The special aspect of this Summer School was the inspirational presentations and training provided by the participants of the NBS EduWORLD Summer School 2024.
MOOC: Exploring Nature-Based Solutions in Your Classroom Rerun
This course aims to explore the implementation of NBS in classrooms through ready-to-use learning scenarios. The learning scenarios presented in this course promote critical thinking, collaboration, and project-based learning and can be easily adapted for an array of subjects.
MOOC: Exploring Nature-Based Solutions in Your Classroom and Beyond
This course expands its formal education reach to also include non-formal education settings and approaches, while offering a selection of new resources and teaching tools for both and putting NBS careers in the spotlight. By joining this course, teachers and educators will be able to introduce NBS initiatives in their schools and communities and lead discussions among various age groups on the sustainable future of our planet. Consider this course a pathway to transforming education and empowering the next generation to build with nature, instead of against it.
NBS EduWORLD Webinar: Bring NBS Expertise to Your School with the Whole-School Approach
This webinar focuses on:
- The Whole-School Approach, an effective methodology to follow for successfully bringing NBS into your school.
- How to showcase your school’s efforts in NBS, be recognised for it, and enter a network of like-minded schools engaged in NBS education, by obtaining the NBS School Expertise, a joint initiative by NBS EduWORLD and the Scientix® STEM School Label.
This webinar aims to support teachers and school heads in preparing and submitting applications for funding under the framework of the ERASMUS+ KA1 Mobility Action, providing useful guidelines and tips.
This guide provides details on the ERASMUS+ Learning Mobility Key Action 1 (KA1), step-by-step support for filling out applications for funding, useful tips, and an application checklist for teachers and school heads who want to benefit from the ERASMUS+ Programme.
Funded by the European Union. 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.