Resources for NBS Education

NBS EduDirectory - The resource landscape of NBS Education

This repository 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. It is updated annually. You can also consult it as a database on PowerBI.

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Learningscenario

GRETA – Green Relevant Environment to All (Understanding NBS)

In this Learning Scenario, students will create ecology posters to raise awareness of how nature-based solutions (NBS) can be used to tackle climate change. This Learning Scenario was developed as part of the Integrating Nature-Based Solutions in Education project, funded by the European Commission Directorate-General for Research and Innovation and coordinated by PPMI, in collaboration with European Schoolnet (EUN).

Topic: Understanding of NBS

Educational Level: Secondary Education

Language:  Dutch English French German Greek Italian Lithuanian Polish Portuguese Romanian Slovak Spanish Swedish

Organisation: European Schoolnet

Publication

Integrating Nature-based Solutions in Education: Unlocking the Potential of Transformative Learning for Sustainability

This policy brief examines the role of formal education in fostering knowledge and awareness of nature-based solutions among young learners in Europe.

Topic: Understanding of NBS

Educational Level: Primary Education

Language:  English

Organisation: ICLEI Europe

Platform

Learning Corner Europe

EU platform that offer learning materials and resoucers for primary and secondary education from a diverse set of topics, including environment and NbS related themes.

Topic: Understanding of NBS

Educational Level: Primary Education

Language:  English

Organisation: European Union

Case

Let’s make our school a growing place!

The project constructed six green walls inside a school yard in collaboration with teachers and students. The goal is to help students understand the relevance and multiple benefits of NBS in responding to sustainability challenges the city faces, such as climate change impacts, biodiversity loss, deteriorating environmental quality.

Topic: Understanding of NBS

Educational Level: Primary Education

Language:  English

Organisation: REGREEN output

Eventcompetition

Nature Based Solutions Challenge

In the Nature Based Solutions Challenge, student teams from around the world worked on a nature-based solution in their own local context, addressing climate change mitigation, climate change adaptation and biodiversity restoration, as well as societal and economic impacts. Eight teams from Brazil, Congo, Indonesia, Nepal, Sri Lanka the Netherlands and Uganda were selected by the jury to implement their Nature-based Solutions project. With mentoring from experts in the field and funding (2500 euro), they worked on their projects from May untill September 2022.

Topic: Understanding of NBS

Educational Level: Higher Education

Language:  English

Organisation: Wageningen University

European Union

NBS EduWORLD is funded by the European Union (Grant Agreement No. 101060525). 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.