The Green4C launch event in Ireland will focus on the promotion of physical and mental health through Green Care practices. Using a case-study approach, this online forum will present some practical examples of Green Care, with the aim to share best practices and promote the diffusion of this type of initiatives. In addition, our EU …
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Promoting health through forests: different practices and benefits
Over the last 15 years, Green Care has emerged has a new and distinctive field of study and practice. However, while the benefits of nature on health and wellbeing have been known for centuries, it is only recently that they have been studied consistently. Green Care is an umbrella term that describes a wide range …
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Green Care: le aree verdi per il benessere, la salute, l’inclusione sociale
Il Green Care è un insieme di pratiche che utilizzano la natura e i suoi elementi per promuovere la salute delle persone. Queste pratiche hanno un’applicazione molto ampia e varia, includendo sia iniziative volte al miglioramento della salute fisica e mentale, sia azioni con fini educativi e di inclusione sociale. Per questo motivo il Green …
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How biodiversity impacts the site suitability for Green care tourism in Romania?
Green care tourism relies on natural and semi-natural areas that are suitable for tourism activities. Forest Design in Romania assesses the biodiversity as well as other factors that can enhance tourism products in an area. Why Green care tourism? All human societies, economies, and cultures are embedded in nature and rely on it for sustenance …
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Green4C’s workshop at the EU Regions Week
Empowering wellbeing and health through nature: inspiring good practices and initiatives across Europe. Can nature help our health and wellbeing? In the last few years, the demand for spending time in nature has been increasing, along with a renewed interest in Green Care practices. The term Green Care refers to those practices promoting health and …
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EU Market Outlooks on Green Care
The focus of Green4C project is to foster innovation and entrepreneurship by integrating health and social care with connection to nature and natural resources and ecosystems in both rural and urban areas. In Green4C, Green Care is the umbrella term referring to the “wide range of activities and targeted beneficiaries, ranging from health and wellbeing …
Green4C on The Nature of Cities
The Nature of Cities (TNOC) is an international platform for transdisciplinary dialogue and urban solutions. It facilitates the sharing of diverse, transformative ideas about cities as ecosystems of people, nature, and infrastructure. The Post COVID-19 City Challenge In May we wrote an article to tell you about our first victory: we were among the finalists …
Green4C Launch Event | Austria
Join the Green Care WALD-Tage by BFW, the Green4C National Launch Event will take place on 8 September 2021. The Green4C Launch Event revolves around the three-year Erasmus+ project Green4C, which aims to promote nature-based solutions – Green Care – for health, well-being and social inclusion. The aim is to exchange, network and discuss at …
Creating a Green Care online course
Developing learning modules for the promotion of green and natural approaches to health and social care through sustainable entrepreneurship. At Elevate Health, developing tailor-made e-learning solutions for the Healthcare and Life Sciences sector is our passion, resulting in our engagement in the E+ Green4C project. With the other partners using their expertise in researching the …
Italian forests and parks, a source of well-being
“We need nature in our lives!”: this is what the European Commission stated in 2020 its EU Biodiversity Strategy 2030, “to improve our psycho-physical health and that of the Planet”(European Commission, 2020). It is nowadays widely accepted that being in the open air in a green space has a positive effect on our health, both …
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Green4C at the Connecting Nature Summit
Connecting Nature is a five year project funded by the European Commission’s Horizon 2020 Innovation Action Programme that will work to promote Europe as a global leader in the innovation and implementation of nature –based solutions. The Summit On June 2021 the project organised the Connecting Nature Enterprise Summit Poznań focusing specifically on the economic …
European survey on Urban Green for health and wellbeing
If you are involved in an Urban green care initiative which includes specific projects, initiatives, interventions, and services that operationalise nature prescriptions in urban and peri-urban green spaces while incorporating and promoting human health and well-being in their mission, vision and activities, please fill in our survey by clicking the link below. Within the project, …
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