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.
Have a look at further resources repositorites of the NBS and the education communities at the NBS EduHub.
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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
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
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
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
Nature Based Solutions Course- University of Southhampton
In addition to gaining an understanding of Nature Based Solutions students gain an ability to critically assess NBS in terms of their social and ecological trade-offs. These skills will be assessed through both lectures as well as a self-directed case study, and a written final examination. In addition, students work in groups to give a presentation on the social, and ecological strengths and weaknesses of a major NBS intervention.
Topic: Understanding of NBS
Educational Level: Higher Education
Language: English
Organisation: University of Southampton
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