Task Forces
There is a growing portfolio of EU Horizon Europe projects that focus on Nature-Based Solutions (NbS). These projects work together on a number of shared topics, including sustainable urban development, social cohesion, public health, water and climate resilience, disaster risk reduction and more. Collaboration between projects is managed through NbS Task Forces. NetworkNature supports and helps to facilitate the various NbS Task Force groups, which can be accessed below.
Task Force 6:
The Taskforce for NbS Education will cultivate an environmentally conscious and empowered community of educators to develop approaches and material for this developing area. By fostering collaboration, providing resources, and advocating for policy change, the taskforce seeks to transform education into a powerful force for positive environmental action, ensuring a more sustainable and harmonious future.
Task Force 5:
The Taskforce for NbS Education will cultivate an environmentally conscious and empowered community of educators to develop approaches and material for this developing area. By fostering collaboration, providing resources, and advocating for policy change, the taskforce seeks to transform education into a powerful force for positive environmental action, ensuring a more sustainable and harmonious future.
Task Force 4:
NbS Communicators synergises communication efforts of Horizon-funded nature-based solutions projects’ work, and establishes connections with international actors and the European Union to communicate and disseminate the latest developments in the nature-based solutions field. The Task Force work centres around building avenues for collaboration in the form of joint messaging, events and communications campaigns to ensure visibility. The Task Force also builds capacity of communicators through knowledge sharing and training.
Task Force 3:
Task Force 3 will promote the systemic integration of NbS into sustainable urban and land planning and management, adopting a co-management, co-design, co-development and co-implementation; and create new business opportunities, growth and jobs, and contribute to the development of a green economy, shifting public and private investments from conventional to nature-based or effective combinations of nature/grey solutions to societal challenges.
Task Force 2:
Task Force 2 will enable all NbS projects funded under Horizon Europe to collaborate on demonstrating the multiple benefits of NbS, using a coherent and integrated assessment framework based on common indicators. The projects develop and implement their own methodologies for assessing effectiveness of NbS within this framework.
Task Force 1:
Task Force 1 is a community for people in the field of data and knowledge sharing. Its overarching purpose is to support delivery of the European Research and Innovation Roadmap for Nature-based Solutions, specifically focussing on the first strategic action area for transdisciplinary research: “Advancing NbS knowledge and data on NbS”.
