Professor Nikolaos Nikolaidis shares his knowledge of using nature to provide solutions for a secure and sustainable future for Europe with the ThinkNature project. He was asked by the Science Impact Magasine (www.impact.pub @EUSciComm ) to talk shortly about the aim of the ThinkNature project, the Platform and in general about the benefit brought by #naturebasedsolutions . Read the […]
Call for knowledge EKLIPSE invites experts (as individuals or in a consortium) to apply and answer three questions of high interest: Is missing knowledge hampering the effectiveness of approaches that aim to restore biodiversity and ecosystem service function and services? Deadline: 5th February 2018 How can we better integrate research and knowledge on biodiversity and […]
We recommend you three video presentations on Nature-Based Solutions which had been realized during the “Nature-Based Solutions for Greener Cities” free webinar organized by our partners Green Growth Knowledge Platform (GGKP) on 31 October 2017. The experts present explored to what extent and with what methods, cities are currently adopting Nature-Based Solutions, as a fix to their challenges. For this, […]
Place: Vienna; Austria Date: 8 April to 13 April 2018 The EGU General Assembly 2018 will include a session regarding “Urban sustainable development: resilience to environmental problems and natural hazards through eco-engineering solutions” The session seeks for presentations regarding Nature-Based Solutions and their integration with other engineering solutions to mitigate urban hazards. This session also aims to […]
29 January – 2 February 2018 TERRAenVISION Environmental Issues Today: Scientific Solutions for Societal Issues Place: Barcelona Date: 29 January – 2 February 2018 TERRAenVISION Environmental Issues Today: Scientific Solutions for Societal Issues will include also a Plenary session on Nature-based Solutions. This session aims to give an overview of the current situation on new theoretical/analytical tools and methods to demonstrate […]
Place: European Parliament, Room P4B001, Brussels, BE Date: 6 November 2017, 18:30 – 20:30 Nature-based Solutions for more sustainable and resilient societies Benedek Jávor Member of the European Parliament invites you to debate about “Nature-based Solutions for more sustainable and resilient societies“. The event is organised in partnership with: EU Presidencies Estonia, Bulgaria and Austria European […]
We recommend you five video presentations on Nature-Based Solutions which had been realized during the “Nature-Based Solutions: Pandora box or reconciling concept?” free webinar organized by our partners EKLIPSE & BiodivERsA on 4 October 2017. This was a follow-up of the Joint Foresight Workshop « Social Innovation and Nature-Based Solutions » that was held in Brussels in December 2016(see here). NBS has a high potential […]
Place: Tallinn, Estonia Date: October 24-26, 2017 At the end of October Tallinn will host the conference Nature-Based Solutions: From Innovation to Common-use (NBS2017). This flagship event is organised by of the Presidency of the Estonian Republic of the Council of the European Union, the Ministry of the Environment of Estonia and the University of Tallinn. The […]
This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme, Call H2020-SC5-2016-2017 Greening the economy, under grant agreement No 730338.