Empowering students to act for climate through Nature Based Solutions

<< Objectives >>NBS4School aims to introduce the concept of Nature-based-Solutions as an educational tool to support climate change education. NBS is gaining more ground as a methodology to solve real life challenges caused by climate change. At the same time, it has high innovative potential as a teaching tool. By combining the concept with effective and modern pedagogical methods like Citizen Science, NBS4School aims to train teachers to educate the students of the future.<< Implementation >>The project activities will be research design activities (surveys, interviews), training of school teachers on Activist Science Education and Citizen Science teaching methods and tools, co-design sessions, development of resources and training material for an online course, training activities, the development of an academic and the implementation of local training workshops.<< Results >>Project results will include a study exploring the current level of NBS in Education, a teacher training package which will include a MOOC, a Citizen Science Toolkit and an international workshop and finally the NBS4School Curriculum as well as tools to evaluate the efficacy of it.