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NetworkNature - Advancing nature-based solutions together

Project description

New platform inspired by nature to build resilience

Designed to bring more nature and natural features and processes into our daily life, nature-based solutions (NbSs) also support economic growth, create jobs and improve our overall well-being. Nature can help provide viable solutions that provide sustainable, cost-effective, multipurpose and flexible alternatives. It can pave the way towards a more resource-efficient, competitive and greener economy. The EU-funded NetworkNature project will establish a European and global platform allowing all interested stakeholders to access and contribute cutting-edge, innovative knowledge and expertise on NbSs. It will be a comprehensive, up-to-date, open, user-oriented platform. With a consortium representing all relevant stakeholders, the project will build on ongoing work of all Horizon 2020 and BiodivERsA-funded NbS projects.

Objective

NetworkNature will establish a European and global platform allowing all interested stakeholders to access and contribute cutting-edge, innovative knowledge and expertise on nature-based solutions (NBS). Our consortium represents all relevant stakeholder groups and has access to a range of related networks. We have a strong track record and extensive expertise on this topic in terms of engagement, content, technical know-how and involvement in relevant policy processes at European Union (EU) and global level. This allows us to maximise the EU’s potential to become a global leader in deploying innovative NBS to address societal challenges, building on the ongoing work of all Horizon 2020 and BiodivERsA-funded NBS projects as well as relevant other initiatives and programmes in Europe and beyond. The project’s legacy will be ensured through establishing a sustainable platform structure that responds to the needs of the NBS community of innovators based on a sound and stable business model; providing support to and strengthening the NBS community, particularly small and medium enterprises, practitioners and policy-makers, to foster market uptake as well as the transfer and application of innovative NBS; by providing targeted dialogue opportunities across Europe and in regions, guidance and capacity building as well as using advocacy as vehicle to nurture NBS through policy, research and practice, particularly for design and standardisation; and, finally, by building on existing global initiatives to continue enhancing international cooperation to upscale the implementation of NBS. NetworkNature will help transform the EU’s vision of becoming a leader for NBS into reality through a comprehensive, up-to-date, open, user-oriented platform for NBS, building on the dynamic, but to date less streamlined development across the involved stakeholders, projects, existing platforms and policies in the EU over the past years.

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CSA - Coordination and support action

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(opens in new window) H2020-SC5-2018-2019-2020

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Coordinator

ICLEI EUROPEAN SECRETARIAT GMBH (ICLEI EUROPASEKRETARIAT GMBH)
Net EU contribution

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€ 824 125,00
Address
LEOPOLDRING 3
79098 FREIBURG IM BREISGAU
Germany

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SME

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Yes
Region
Baden-Württemberg Freiburg Freiburg im Breisgau, Stadtkreis
Activity type
Other
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€ 824 125,00

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