NBS EduWORLD resources
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NBS EduWORLD is committed to advancing sustainability through education, offering a range of resources designed to meet the needs of diverse audiences. Whether you are an NBS expert, an educator, a policymaker, or a stakeholder in sustainability education, these deliverables provide valuable insights and tools to support your work.
Are you an NBS expert interested in developing educational activities?
NBS Education Virtual flipping book
The aim of this document is to be a user-friendly NBS education resource with a major focus on place-based non-formal education, to inspire and bring valuable lessons coming from concrete NBS education initiatives to a broad audience. It brings an overview of NBS education resources, tools, success factors (enabling actor constellations and processes) employed in NBS EduSystems.
The NBS EduDirectory, the resource landscape of NBS Education, provides a comprehensive list of available resources, including guidance, reports, tools, and services developed around education about NBS. These NBS education resources and materials were discovered through EU-funded online repositories and through desk research.
Are you an educator with little or average NBS knowledge, looking to introduce NBS across various types of education?
NBS Knowledge Stream Guidelines
The guidelines offer a step-by-step framework for educators new to nature-based solutions (NBS), providing practical examples, hands-on activities, and recommendations to integrate NBS concepts across formal, non-formal, and informal education, building foundational NBS knowledge and empowering educators to enhance sustainability education.
NBS Connections Stream Guidelines
The NBS Connections Stream Guidelines aim to empower confident educators to expand the topic of nature-based solutions (NBS) in learning settings. Drawing from insights and examples from the first two years of NBS EduWORLD, they promote integration across formal and non-formal education, fostering NBS literacy for sustainable learning.
NBS learning activities for ages 3 and above
This set of Learning activities is designed to help educators, instructors and trainers in Youth Centers, Youth Camps, NBS and/or STEM Camps and other forms of non-formal instruction, bring the topic of nature-based solutions (NBS) to children and youth across Europe through structured and engaging approaches.
NBS EduWORLD Learning Scenarios
The NBS EduWORLD Learning Scenarios support teachers in introducing students to the benefits of nature-based solutions (NBS). They were developed during the Nature-Based Solutions in Education Competition 2023, encouraging educators to create innovative STEM-related activities and share their best practices with the global NBS and Scientix communities.
NBS EduWORLD Stories of Implementation and Good Practices
The Stories of Implementation present ways in which educators adapted and carried out existing NBS Learning Scenarios (from the NBS EduWORLD project and beyond) in their own teaching context, and the Good practices offer more examples of activities done by educators. The NBS EduWORLD Stories of Implementation and Good practices were collected through the Scientix® STEM Discovery Campaigns 2024 and/or 2025.
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs)
The MOOC "Exploring nature-based solutions in your classroom (2023)" for educators with little to no prior NBS knowledge focuses on formal education and is supported by Scientix® and Trane Technologies, while its successor -"Exploring nature-based solutions in your classroom and beyond (2025)", focuses on both formal and non-formal education settings and approaches, with the support of Scientix®.
Are you an education and NBS expert interested in expanding and promoting your practice?
Scenarios of Plausible Futures for NBS in Education
This document describes and analyses the different pathways for the transformation of the schools into NatureBased Solutions (NBS) Living Labs (LLs) through the Whole School Approach (WSA), providing a structured set of Scenarios of Plausible Futures for Nature-Based Solutions in Education that can act as a reference point for the project’s implementation with the large users’ communities.
Schools as Innovation Hubs for the Green Transition: Transforming Schools into NBS Living Labs
This booklet provides a simplified introduction to the Whole-School Approach for integrating Nature-Based Solutions (NBS) into schools, transforming them into living labs. It answers key questions about NBS Living Labs, the pillars of the Whole-School Approach, living lab methodology, open schooling culture, and suitable learning methods for this transformation.
NBS EduWORLD booklet: The School as NBS Living Lab
This brochure presents the work of NBS EduWORLD regarding the transformation of schools into NBS living labs, providing the key steps to follow and examples of good practices.
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.
Are you interested in adopting NBS approaches and behaviours through higher education and entrepreneurial level?
Initial Report on NBS in Higher Education
This milestone report explores the current understanding, approaches, and pedagogies of higher education in NBS, encompassing vocational, entrepreneurial, and tertiary domains. Its primary aim is to summarise existing and potential needs-based education approaches at higher level to present a state of the art.
NBS Higher Education and Entrepreneurship Architecture
This report builds on the earlier NBS EduWORLD evaluation of Nature-Based Solutions (NBS) in education to advance institutional leadership through capacity-building initiatives. Building on this, a comprehensive set of innovative guidance materials are developed which aim at embedding NBS thinking within strategic and operational practices across higher education and industry.
This library of 50 modular learning units was structured to support both formal accreditation and informal learning. The units cover foundational to advanced concepts and are mapped as 'steppingstones' within a sequential learning framework. The learning units offers a scalable, adaptable resource to embed NBS literacy into educational ecosystems and workforce development strategies.
Are you a policymaker or working for a public authority?
This report aims to provide an overview and detailed analysis of the state of the art in nature-based solutions (NBS) education across the European region and at different education levels.
Assessment framework and guidance for the project
This report provides an overview and analysis of assessment tools for NBS education in the European region. Based on mapping, desk research and interviews, it finds that most of the reviewed student assessment tools constitute authentic assessment.
Youth Inclusion Toolkit for Local Authorities
This document provides a suite of tools for local governments to engage with the youth in NBS work effectively and meaningfully. It aims to support local governments to reach out to the youth for engaging them in a respectful and equal manner for collective decision making and envisioning a resilient future with NBS. The version submitted to the EC including annexes is available here.
Interested in NBS EduWORLD´s management, dissemination, and exploitation activities?
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). The original version (Dec 2022) is available here.
NBS EduWORLD Dissemination and Exploitation Plan including Communication Activities (June 2025)
The updated NBS EduWORLD Dissemination and Exploitation Plan (June 2025) outlines key project messages, informational materials, knowledge management strategies, and dissemination approaches. The communication and dissemination activities, detailed in this plan, will be carried out from the start of the project in September 2022 through to its completion in August 2025. The original version (Jan 2023) is available here and the first revised version (Feb 2024) here.
NBS EduWORLD Exploitation and Sustainability Plan
The NBS EduWORLD Exploitation and Sustainability Plan aims at ensuring the long-term effectiveness of project’s actions in NBS education in Europe (and beyond). The Plan presents an analysis of project outputs, as well as strategies to leverage them over time, with the overarching goal of maximising project impact even after its conclusion.
This report summarises the outcomes of two Education Summits on Nature-Based Solutions (NBS) held in 2024 and 2025 respectively. The summits took the shape of half-day hybrid/online meetings exploring the integration of NBS into education and policy frameworks. The report outlines the key focus areas and structure of the events and feedback from participants via satisfaction surveys. It highlights the main takeaways of the Summits of relevance for the NBS EduWORLD policy recommendations released in August 2025.
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