Development of a multi-stakeholder dialogue platform and Think tank to promote innovation with Nature based solutions

Funding programme: 
H2020
Project ID: 
PR-H2020-78
Acronym: 
ThinkNature
Description: 

Nature-based solutions (NbS) aim to help societies to address a variety of environmental, social and economic challenges in sustainable ways. They are actions which are inspired by and supported by nature. Some involve using and enhancing existing natural solutions to challenges, while others are exploring more novel solutions, for example, based on how non-human organisms and communities cope with environmental extremes. NbS are energy and resource-efficient, and resilient to change, but to be successful they must be adapted to local conditions.

The main objective of the present project is the development of a multi-stakeholder communication platform that will support the understanding and the promotion of nature based solutions in local, regional, EU and International level. Through dialogue uptake facilitation and steering mechanisms as well as knowledge capacity building, the ThinkNature Platform will bring together multi-disciplinary scientific expertise, policy, business and society, as well as citizens. This platform will be efficient, fluent to use and attractive to a wide variety of actors and stakeholders because it merges all aspects of NbS in a clear, pyramidal methodological approach. It will create a wide interactive society that builds new knowledge with a wide geographical scope.

As a result, ThinkNature will provide the necessary policy and regulatory tools to solve significant societal challenges such as human well-being, tackling energy poverty, impacts of climate change, etc. through continuous dialogue and interaction.

Lead entity: 
POLYTECHNEIO KRITIS
Lead Country: 
Greece
Partners: 
HELSINGIN YLIOPISTO;EUROPEAN DREDGING ASSOCIATION;BOOK ON A TREE LTD;OPPLA EEIG;IDRYMA TECHNOLOGIAS KAI EREVNAS;STICHTING EUROPEES CENTRUM VOOR NATUURBESCHERMING;UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS;KRITI;CONSIGLIO NAZIONALE DELLE RICERCHE;EUROPEAN CONSTRUCTION; BUILT ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY EFFICIENT BUILDINGS TECHNOLOGY PLATFORM;VAN ROMPAEY SARA;CENTRE SCIENTIFIQUE ET TECHNIQUE DU BATIMENT;INTERNATIONALE VERENIGING VAN STEDEBOUWKUNDIGEN;STIFTUNG GLOBAL INFRASTRUCTURE BASEL;AVON WILDLIFE TRUST;FONDATION FRANCAISE POUR LA RECHERCHE SUR LA BIODIVERSITE;VILLE DE PARIS
Partners countries: 
Finland, Belgium, United Kingdom, Netherlands, Greece, Italy, France, Switzerland
Start/end date: 
Thursday, 1 December 2016 to Saturday, 30 November 2019
Time frame: 
2016 - 2019
NBS type: 
All
Societal challenges: 
Social Justice and Social Cohesion
Food security
Approach: 
Ecosystem-based forest management
Environment: 
Forest