Re-imagining Environments for Connection and Engagement: Testing Actions for Social Prescribing in Natural Spaces

Project Information

RECETAS

Grant agreement ID: 945095

DOI

10.3030/945095

Project closed

EC signature date 29 January 2021

Start date 1 March 2021

End date 30 June 2026

Funded under

• SOCIETAL CHALLENGES - Health, demographic change and well-being

Total cost

€ 5 403 657,50

EU contribution

€ 5 019 807,50

Coordinated by

FUNDACION PRIVADA INSTITUTO DE SALUD GLOBAL BARCELONA
Spain

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Deliverables

Documents, reports (11)

Public engagement summary report

D6.3 Public engagement summary report [M48]

Literature Scan

Final scan will be completed as a report M6

Joint policy briefs M32

Document describing briefly main messages towards relevant policymakers.

Summary outreach report

D 23 Summary report on outreach actions M12

Common dissemination and communication strategy for the cluster

Document detailing the joint communication and dissemination strategy for the cluster

1st Kick-Off Meeting Report

A summary report following our Kick-off meeting that highlights key recommendations, and next steps for project objectives and deliverables [M4]

Joint policy briefs M46

Document describing briefly main messages towards relevant policymakers.

Cluster web portal and visual identity

Website describing cluster activities and providing links to all individual cluster websites.

Cluster brochure

Leaflet describing the cluster activities and participating projects

Joint policy briefs M18

Document describing briefly main messages towards relevant policymakers

NBSP Menu and Feasibility Study Protocol

D 31 Protocol for NBSP Menu Development M12

Websites, patent fillings, videos etc. (1)

Public Facing Survey Platform

D 22 Publicfacing data system that will hold the network data collected support analysis reports filterquery M12

Open Research Data Pilot (1)

Data management plan

D42 Data management plan M6 The Data Management Plan DMP will guide a good data management by describing the data management life cycle for the data to be collected processed andor generated It will be aligned with the FAIR principles that research data should be Findable Accessible Interoperable and Reusable The DMP will include information on the handling of research data during and after the end of the project what data will be collected processed andor generated which methodology and standards will be applied whether data will be sharedmade open access how data will be curated and preserved including after the end of the project

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (18)

The Costs of Loneliness-related Health Consequences in Spain

Author(s): Veronika Papon, Sibylle Puntscher, Marjan Arvandi, Beate Jahn, Laura Coll-Planas, Jill S. Litt, Uwe Siebert, Ursula Rochau
Published in: Das Gesundheitswesen, Issue 86, 2025, Page(s) S301-S301, ISSN 0941-3790
Publisher: Georg Thieme Verlag
DOI: 10.1055/s-0044-1794275

Connecting through nature: A systematic review of the effectiveness of nature-based social prescribing practices to combat loneliness

Author(s): Ashby Lavelle Sachs, Annika Kolster, Jordan Wrigley, Veronika Papon, Nerkez Opacin, Nicholas Hill, Michelle Howarth, Ursula Rochau, Laura Hidalgo, Cristina Casajuana, Uwe Siebert, Janina Gerhard, Carolyn Daher, Jill Litt
Published in: Landscape and Urban Planning, Issue 248, 2024, Page(s) 105071, ISSN 0169-2046
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2024.105071

Evaluating the feasibility of “Friends in Nature,” a complex nature-based social intervention to address loneliness and quality of life in six cities worldwide

Author(s): Cristina Vert, Jill S. Litt, Mireia Gascon, Marta Roqué, Montse Masó-Aguado, Nerkez Opacin, Gabriela Garcia, Anu Jansson, Lucie Cattaneo, Alžběta Bártová, Laia Briones-Buixassa, Aina Carbó, Laura J. Rautiainen, Laura Hidalgo, Ashby Sachs, Sara Domènech, Sergi Blancafort-Alias, Iva Holmerová, Kaisu H. Pitkälä, Laura Coll-Planas
Published in: Pilot and Feasibility Studies, Issue 10, 2024, ISSN 2055-5784
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1186/s40814-024-01575-4

Participants’ baseline characteristics and feedback of the nature-based social intervention “friends in nature” among lonely older adults in assisted living facilities in finland: a randomised controlled trial of the RECETAS EU-project

Author(s): Kaisu H. Pitkala, Laura Rautiainen, Ulla L. Aalto, Hannu Kautiainen, Annika Kolster, Marja-Liisa Laakkonen, Timo Partonen, Hanna-Maria Roitto, Timo E. Strandberg, Nerkez Opacin, Sibylle Puntscher, Uwe Siebert, Laura Coll-Planas, Ashby L. Sachs, Jill S. Litt, Anu H. Jansson, null null, Acurio David, Bártová Alzbeta, Cattaneo Lucie, Holmerova Iva, Garcia Gabriela
Published in: BMC Geriatrics, Issue 24, 2024, ISSN 1471-2318
Publisher: BioMed Central
DOI: 10.1186/s12877-024-05408-0

Evaluating the social return on investment of nature-based social prescribing to alleviate loneliness: a randomized controlled trial in Barcelona

Author(s): Veronika Papon, Sibylle Puntscher, Montse Masó-Aguado, Marjan Arvandi, Beate Jahn, Mat Jones, Amy Beardmore, Marc Olivella-Cirici, Laia Briones-Buixassa, Laura Coll-Planas, Jill S. Litt, Uwe Siebert, Ursula Rochau
Published in: Frontiers in Public Health, Issue 14, 2026, ISSN 2296-2565
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2026.1774155

A Decision-Analytic Model to Evaluate the Long-term Impacts of Nature-Based Social Prescribing Against Loneliness in Spain Informed by the RECETAS Study

Author(s): Veronika Papon, Beate Jahn, Sibylle Puntscher, Marjan Arvandi, Jill S. Litt, Montse Masó-Aguado, Kaisu H. Pitkala, Ivaiff Kolářová, Blanka Novotna, Alzbeta Bartova, Mat Jones, Uwe Siebert, Ursula Rochau
Published in: Das Gesundheitswesen, Issue 86, 2025, Page(s) S301-S302, ISSN 0941-3790
Publisher: Georg Thieme Verlag
DOI: 10.1055/s-0044-1794276

Hacia la prescripción social basada en la naturaleza para aliviar la soledad: una experiencia co-creativa desde Ecuador

Author(s): Pablo Paño Yáñez, Gabriela García Vélez, Karla Vásquez Pesántez, David Acurio Páez
Published in: Ciência & Saúde Coletiva, Issue 30, 2025, ISSN 1413-8123
Publisher: Associacao Brasileira de Pos-Graduacao em Saude Coletiva
DOI: 10.1590/1413-81232025306.05692024

Systematic Review on the Impact of Loneliness and Social Isolation on Cardiovascular Diseases

Author(s): Sibylle Puntscher, Sophia Spagl, Veronika Papon, Marjan Arvandi, Beate Jahn, Kaisu Pitkälä, Laura Coll-Planas, Iva Holmerová, Alzbeta Bartova, Blanka Novotná, Cristina Casajuana Kögel, Matthew Jones, Ashby Lavelle Sachs, Jill S. Litt, Uwe Siebert, Ursula Rochau
Published in: Das Gesundheitswesen, Issue 86, 2025, Page(s) S305-S306, ISSN 0941-3790
Publisher: Georg Thieme Verlag
DOI: 10.1055/s-0044-1794286

SA75 Development of a Social Return on Investment Study of Nature-Based Social Prescribing

Author(s): V. Papon, S. Puntscher, M. Jones, M. Arvandi, B. Jahn, J.S. Litt, U. Siebert, U. Rochau
Published in: Value in Health, Issue 27, 2025, Page(s) S629, ISSN 1098-3015
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1016/j.jval.2024.10.3156

Co-Creating a Nature-Based Social Prescription Intervention in Urban Socioeconomically Deprived Neighbourhoods: A Case Study from RECETAS Project in Barcelona, Spain

Author(s): Celia Santos-Tapia; Laura Hidalgo; Pol Jimenez-Arenas; Cristina Casajuana; Sara Domènech; Aida Ballester-Lledó; Jill Litt; Ashby Sachs; Gabriela Garcia; Sergi Blancafort-Alias
Published in: Health and Social Care in the Community, Issue 2, 2023, ISSN 1753-8157
Publisher: Informa Healthcare
DOI: 10.1155/2023/6616991

Nature Prescribing or Nature Programming? Complementary Practices to Increase Time in Nature to Support Mental Health

Author(s): Wesley Tate, Louise Chawla, Ashby Lavelle Sachs, Jill S. Litt, Nooshin Razani
Published in: Ecopsychology, Issue 16, 2026, Page(s) 288-301, ISSN 1942-9347
Publisher: Mary Ann Liebert Inc.
DOI: 10.1089/eco.2023.0064

Reimagining health care and social connection with asylum seekers and refugees through contextually grounded nature-based social interventions

Author(s): Nerkez Opacin, Katherine Johnson, Nicholas Hill, Alba Morato, Ian Seal, Jill Litt, Sarah Bekessy
Published in: Wellbeing, Space and Society, Issue 10, 2026, Page(s) 100409, ISSN 2666-5581
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.wss.2026.100409

Skupinové aktivity v přírodě jako dostupná a efektivní intervence podpory zdraví starších osob: implikace projektu RECETAS pro strategie zdravého stárnutí

Author(s): Iva Holmerová, Alžběta Bártová, Barbora Holubová, Blanka Novotná, Anna Šlegrová, Laura Coll Planas, Kaisu Pitkala, and Jill Litt
Published in: Geriatrie a Gerontologie, 2026, ISSN 1805-4684
Publisher: Česká lékařská společnost Jana Evangelisty Purkyně, z.s.
DOI: 10.61568/geri/50-6703/20260311/143074

PCR70 Generating Patient-Relevant Outcomes for Loneliness Interventions: A Novel Approach to Quantifying Loneliness Over Time

Author(s): V. Papon, S. Puntscher, M. Arvandi, J.S. Litt, L. Coll-Planas, L. Briones, K.H. Pitkala, B. Novotna, A. Bártová, D. Acurio, N. Opacin, B. Jahn, U. Siebert, U. Rochau
Published in: Value in Health, Issue 27, 2025, Page(s) S518, ISSN 1098-3015
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1016/j.jval.2024.10.3313

Current Trends and Future Directions in Urban Social Prescribing

Author(s): J. S. Litt; L. Coll-Planas; A. L. Sachs; M. Masó Aguado; M. Howarth
Published in: Current Environmental Health Reports, Issue 1, 2023, ISSN 2196-5412
Publisher: Springer Link
DOI: 10.1007/s40572-023-00419-2

Nature-based social interventions for people experiencing loneliness: the rationale and overview of the RECETAS project

Author(s): Jill S. Litt; Laura Coll-Planas; Ashby Lavelle Sachs; Ursula Rochau; Anu Jansson; Vladimira Dostálová; Carolyn Daher; Amanda Beacom; Kaley Bachinski; Gabriela Elizabeth Garcia Velez; Sarah Bekessy; Sergi Blancafort Alias; Nicholas Hill; Mireia Gascón; Alzbeta Bartova; Lucie Cattaneo; Alice Cucchiaro; Cristina Casajuana Kögel; Nerkez Opacin; Joan Colom; Stéphanie Gentile; Iva Holmerová; Kathe
Published in: Cities and Health, Issue 1, 2023, ISSN 2374-8834
Publisher: Taylor and Francis Online
DOI: 10.1080/23748834.2023.2300207

Nature-based social interventions to address loneliness among vulnerable populations: a common study protocol for three related randomized controlled trials in Barcelona, Helsinki, and Prague within the RECETAS European project

Author(s): Laura Coll-Planas, Aina Carbó-Cardeña, Anu Jansson, Vladimira Dostálová, Alzbeta Bartova, Laura Rautiainen, Annika Kolster, Montse Masó-Aguado, Laia Briones-Buixassa, Sergi Blancafort-Alias, Marta Roqué-Figuls, Ashby Lavelle Sachs, Cristina Casajuana, Uwe Siebert, Ursula Rochau, Sibylle Puntscher, Iva Holmerová, Kaisu H. Pitkala & Jill S. Litt
Published in: BMC Public Health, 2024, ISSN 1471-2458
Publisher: BioMed Central
DOI: 10.1186/s12889-023-17547-x

Developing a new tool to capture the nature dose to reduce loneliness and improve quality of life

Author(s): Ashby Lavelle Sachs, Montse Maso-Aguado, Albert Bach, Nerkez Opacin, Nicholas Hill, Lucie Cattaneo, Laura Coll-Planas, Katherine Johnson, Laura Hidalgo, Carolyn Daher, Jill Litt, Sarah Bekessy
Published in: MethodsX, Issue 13, 2025, Page(s) 102969, ISSN 2215-0161
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.mex.2024.102969

Other (2)

When we took 37 strangers into the urban bush, their loneliness began to ease

Author(s): Nerkez Opacin, Sarah Bekessy, Katherine Johnson
Published in: 2026
Publisher: The Conversation
DOI: 10.64628/aa.4a9f955qf

Regenerating and revaluing urban forests at scale: Research case studies

Author(s): David Rousell, Mallika Robinson, Nerkez Opacin, Maud Cassaignau, Cristina Hernandez Santin, Dominique Hes, Geoff Crosby, Marco Amati, Sarah Barns
Published in: 2026
Publisher: RMIT University
DOI: 10.25439/rmt.32131408

Thesis and dissertations (1)

Vliv aktivit projektu RECETAS na prožívání osamělosti účastníků výzkumu / English title: The impact of RECETAS activities on research participants’ experience of loneliness

Author(s): Barbora Holubová
Published in: 2025
Publisher: Charles University

Conference proceedings (4)

A CITY IN BLOOM, BUT FOR WHOM? Older adults and access to Prague’s nature

Author(s): Blanka Novotná, Petra Valeš Jelínková, Alžběta Bártová, Iva Holmerová, Jill Litt
Published in: 2025
Publisher: 4th World Conference on Forests and Parks for Public Health

Using directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) to guide trial protocol design investigating the effect of nature-based prescribing on physical and mental health

Author(s): Felicitas Kuehne, Marjan Arvandi, Igor Stojkov, Jill Litt, Ashby Sachs, Sergi Blancafort, Richard Kimberlee, Kaisu Pitkala, Anu Jansson, Joan Colom Farran, Iva Holmerova, Stephanie Gentile, Sarah Bekessy, Katherine Johnson, Ursula Rochau, Uwe Siebe
Published in: 23. Jahrestagung des Deutschen Netzwerks Evidenzbasierte Medizin, 2022
Publisher: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
DOI: 10.3205/22ebm155

Decision-Analytic Modeling Studies on Nature-Based Social Prescribing or Loneliness Reducing Interventions: A Systematic Overview

Author(s): Stojkov, Igor; Kühne, Felicitas; Arvandi, Marjan; Conrads-Frank, Annette; Schmid, Daniela; Jahn, Beate; Santamaria Navarro, Jùlia; Aranha Suzumura, Erica; Kimberlee, Richard; Pitkälä, Kaisu; Coll-Planas, Laura; Litt, Jill S.; Siebert, Uwe; Rochau, Ursula
Published in: 67. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Medizinische Informatik, Biometrie und Epidemiologie e. V. (GMDS), 13. Jahreskongress der Technologie- und Methodenplattform für die vernetzte medizinische Forschung e.V. (TMF); 20220821-20220825; sine loco [digital]; DOCAbstr. 130 /20220819/, Issue 1, 2022
Publisher: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
DOI: 10.3205/22gmds134

Economic Evaluations on Nature-Based Social Prescribing for Health Improvement: A Systematic Overview

Author(s): Stojkov, Igor; Arvandi, Marjan; Kühne, Felicitas; Conrads-Frank, Annette; Puntscher, Sibylle; Schmid, Daniela; Jahn, Beate; Aranha Suzumura, Erica; Kimberlee, Richard; Pitkälä, Kaisu; Jansson, Anu; Coll-Planas, Laura; Litt, Jill S.; Siebert, Uwe; Rochau, Ursula
Published in: 67. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Medizinische Informatik, Biometrie und Epidemiologie e. V. (GMDS), 13. Jahreskongress der Technologie- und Methodenplattform für die vernetzte medizinische Forschung e.V. (TMF); 20220821-20220825; sine loco [digital]; DOCAbstr. 131 /20220819/, Issue 1, 2022
Publisher: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
DOI: 10.3205/22gmds135

Book chapters (1)

Nature-Based Social Prescribing with LGBTQIA+ Asylum Seekers and Refugees: A Feasibility Study Using ‘Friends in Nature’

Author(s): Nerkez Opacin, Nicholas Hill, Sarah Bekessy, Ian Seal, Jill Litt, Katherine Johnson
Published in: Social Connection in Everyday Spaces, 2025, Page(s) 145-158
Publisher: Bristol University Press
DOI: 10.51952/9781529246735.ch010