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.

Guideline

Guidelines on Implementation of Nature-Based Solutions Activities in Education for Advanced Educators

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.

Topic: Understanding of NBS

Educational Level: All Levels

Language:  English

Organisation: European Schoolnet for NBS EduWORLD

Guideline

NBS EduWORLD #Youth4NBS social media campaign toolkit

To promote a sustainable and fair future thanks to NBS, it is essential to spread the word about their benefits! This toolkit contains content suggestions that youth can reuse and adapt to post about NBS in their social media networks. Available in EN, IT, ES, HR, SRB and SLO.

Topic: Understanding of NBS

Educational Level: Non Specific

Language:  Croatian English French Italian Spanish

Organisation: ICLEI Europe for NBS EduWORLD

Guideline

Oasis School Yard

The project aims to strengthen social cohesion by co-designing the schoolyard together with pupils and the local community and converting it into a neighborhood’s meeting place. It tackles the alleviation Urban Heat Island effect and the risk of storm water flooding by making city’s infrastructure more permeable and absorbent. The publication addresses technical services of local authorities, their partners, project managers and project developers wishing to undertake similar development projects

Topic: Urban Regeneration

Educational Level: Primary Education

Language:  English

Organisation: City of Paris & partners

Guideline

Schools as Innovation Hubs for the Green Transition: Transforming Schools into NBS Living Labs

This booklet is a simplified introduction to the Whole-School Approach and its basic pillars, as a way to integrate Nature-Based Solutions into schools and transform them into living labs. Questions such as what it means for a school to be an NBS Living Lab and what are the benefits, what are the pillars of the Whole-School Approach and the basic steps for following the living lab methodology, what it means to have an open schooling culture and which learning methods are more suitable, will be answered through the booklet.

Topic: Participatory Planning & Governance

Educational Level: All Levels

Language:  English

Organisation: Ellinogermaniki Agogi for NBS EduWORLD

Guideline

The COOLSCHOOLS Guidelines for schools: how to turn your schoolyard into a nature-based climate shelter

These Guidelines by the COOLSCHOOLS project help School leaders, teachers, and community members such as parents, understand the practical steps and considerations to plan and design the transformation of the schoolyard into a nature-based climate shelter.

Topic: Green Space Management

Educational Level: Continuous Professional Development

Language:  English

Organisation: COOLSCHOOLS

European Union

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