Provision of health benefits

• The experimental features of this NbS are intended as replicable examples in enhancing urban environments and improving living conditions of inhabitants.
• Working with schools to spread the knowledge about NbS to users of the buildings and raising awareness about the importance of plants in everyday life.
• Promoting the collaboration with school teachers and staff of the homeless shelter to schedule activities that supported learning “science” disciplines, as well as Italian language skills, civic education and social studies.
• Consulting a nursery to achieve
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The objectives and goals of the educational activities can be summarized as follows:

• promote the active role of the local educational system during the proGIreg project by consolidating active co-planning processes of school communities to provide continuity of the learning experience
• schools serving as a point of reference on environmental, cultural and socio-economic issues related to the concept of Green Cities.
• support the development of co-design processes
• define management models of NbS foreseen in the project by evaluating the possible
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Establishing vegetable gardens in all primary schools of Mirafiori, plus two kindergarten and one vocational school, and providing educational activities focusing on sustainable agriculture, biodiversity and the proGIreg NbS aims at improving the science curriculum of the schools, increase their attractiveness and raise awareness of environmental sustainability, NbS and how they can improve life quality in the cities.
The educational training also has goal of increasing the attractiveness of Mirafiori schools while teaching practical environmental behavior.

Naturfelder Dortmund e.V. was founded in order to convert urban spaces into pollinator friendly habitats. The structure of the association allows long-term existence beyond proGIreg. Main goals of the NbS implementations include:

• Activating interested citizens from the Huckarde and Deusen district for pollinating insects and biodiversity topics
• Sowing flower meadows or planting insect friendly plants that increase biodiversity on public or private land in cooperation with owners 
• Participating in events to inform about pollinator friendly measures
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