Exploring Nature-Based Solutions in your Classroom and Beyond MOOC (2025)
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About
"If we destroy nature, nature will destroy us" - Wangari Maathai
Welcome to the Exploring Nature-Based Solutions in your Classroom and Beyond MOOC, where you will explore the implementation of nature-based solutions in classrooms through ready-to-use learning scenarios.
We are increasingly becoming aware of environmental issues, and its impact on our societies and everyday life. Teachers are trying to form informed and active students, who will work and build with nature, instead of in separation from it. However, the educational potential of nature-based solutions (NBS) remains largely unexplored, whilst innovative programmes and resources around NBS are currently missing from formal and informal education programmes for children and families.
Objectives
In this course, you will:
- Explore what NBS are, by engaging with state-of-the-art resources, e.g. GreenComp, building a strong theoretical foundation for future implementations.
- Discover a range of resources, tools, and strategies to help integrate NBS in your school community.
- Examine NBS learning scenarios created by expert teachers for inspiration from their best practices.
- Reflect on your current approaches by engaging with teachers from all over Europe and beyond, brainstorming new ideas and methods.
- Create your own NBS learning scenario and review peers’ work, improving the quality of your learning scenario through feedback.
Date and registration
The course will be held online from 13 January to 19 February 2025, with an estimated workload of 5 hours per week (25h in total).
- Module 1 opens on 13/01/2025.
- Module 2 opens on 20/01/2025.
- Module 3 opens on 27/01/2025.
- Module 4 opens on 03/02/2025.
The final deadline to complete all activities is 19 February 2025.
This course is open to all but would be predominantly valuable for teachers of primary and secondary education levels, wishing to explore NBS and sustainability with their students inside and outside their classrooms and schools.
Promotional Materials
Whether you are a course participant, a Ministry of Education, or a network organisation in the educational field: we welcome your support in spreading the message on this free online course.
You can do this in various ways, including:
- Use the suggested social media messages and visuals for the dissemination of the course and registration information on your social media channels, which you can download in the promotional pack below.
- Use the information provided in the promotional pack to promote the MOOC via any other dissemination channels you may have available to you (for example, newsletters, bulletins, digests, blog articles).
- Circulate information to relevant contacts: members of your network, organisations that you know are active on the topic and individual contacts.
To find all the promotional materials combined in a document please click on the button below. This promotional pack (in English) includes detailed information on how to promote the course in communications with your networks and audiences, as well as all visuals and suggested social media messages.
Info Sheet
Social media
Useful X (former Twitter) handles and hashtags:
- Course hashtag #NBSEduWORLDMOOC
- Project handle/hashtag @eu_schoolnet, @scientix_eu, @NBS_EduWORLD
- Service hashtag #EUNAcademy
- Funder handles/hashtags @eu_schoolnet, @scientix_eu, @NBS_EduWORLD
Visuals
You can use the following visuals to promote the MOOC:
Behind the MOOC
The NBS MOOC on "Exploring Nature-Based Solutions in Your Classroom and Beyond" coordinated by European Schoolnet is rerun thanks to NBS EduWORLD and Scientix.
Scientix®, the community for science education in Europe, promotes and supports a Europe-wide collaboration among STEM teachers, education researchers, policymakers and other STEM education professionals.
European Schoolnet (EUN) is the network of 30+ European Ministries of Education, based in Brussels. EUN aims to bring innovation in teaching and learning to its key stakeholders: Ministries of Education, schools, teachers, researchers, and industry partners.
Disclaimer
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. This MOOC is coordinated by European Schoolnet, and is based on the EC-funded Learning Scenarios developed by European Schoolnet ( www.eun.org) with the support of PPMI (www.ppmi.lt/en). The MOOC is supported by Scientix®, an initiative of European Schoolnet.