Nature and Mental Health: Gardens and Other Spaces for Healing
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The Healing Garden Living Lab of the COEVOLVERS project will join the week of New European Bauhaus Festival by organising its final events on 11 and 12 June, 2026. In the morning of 11 June, a guided tour in the healing garden of the Boldog Gellért Psychiatric Hospital will be organised. Participants will be invited to join the hospital’s garden coordinator and the landscape architects who produced the a healing garden master plan based on a 3-year long multispecies participatory process. After the garden walk, a nature- based creative session is offered to participants facilitated by the hospital’s art therapeutist and the visual researcher of the project.
More...Permaculture in Urban Food Systems
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Although more and more people are becoming aware of and learning about permaculture, it is still not widely known and is surrounded by many misconceptions. As researchers, we are encountering permaculture increasingly frequently, whether in food system research or nature-based solutions research. This is why we decided to interview István Lőrinczi, a permaculture designer and trainer about the basics of permaculture and its transformative potential in urban food systems.
More...The PLANET4B project has come to an end – and several new beginnings
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After three years of intense and rewarding work, the PLANET4B Project has come to an end. It was a European research collaboration of 16 partners that investigated how behaviours and decisions affecting biodiversity are shaped and how they can be changed to serve both the environment and people. Read our summary here.
More...Let everyone enjoy birdsong! – Inclusive nature experiences for partially sighted people
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New publication by Barbara Mihók and Anna Mária Ballai in Hungarian.
In our research, ‘Invisible Green’, we explored what truly helps make nature accessible for people with visual impairments. Through interviews, group discussions, and field programs, one message became clear: nature is a multi-sensory, personal experience – but only if we create the right conditions for it. Safety, autonomy, empathy, accessible spaces, and clear support protocols all matter. If we want inclusive nature experiences, we must design them with the people who use them — not just for them.
More...Nature-based scaling approaches for just transformative change
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How nature-based solutions (NbS) can be scaled up in a fair and just way?
More...The transformative potential of Hungarian biodiversity education on children’s values
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A new article of Eszter Kelemen, Kármen Czett and Rita Szentendrey has just been published in the International Journal of Commons.
Children are particularly vulnerable to the negative effects of the current environmental, economic and health crises. The transformative potential of Hungarian biodiversity education on children’s values, worldviews and behaviour was assessed through a critical systemic analysis, key informant interviews, and various participatory methods applied in school gardens. This paper shares some key lessons learnt from a long-lasting study conducted in one of the partner schools via two projects.
More...Seeds of Transformation – Our Transformative Change Story in Hungarian Biodiversity Education is finally out
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Our transformative change story in biodiversity education, developed within the PLANET4B Project, highlights how experiential learning methods can spark change on multiple levels. Shared through an infographic artwork, conference presentations, and local outreach, the story focuses on the co-creation of a school garden and invites reflection on how experiential and arts-based learning can drive transformations in education and beyond. In addition, two biodiversity lesson plans were also developed and tested throughout this project, and are now getting published.
More...Delicious recipies based on unknown plants
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Big agriculture and globalization have trimmed down the incredible variety of cultivated plants to a bare minimum. But all is not lost! PLANET4B Project’s latest publication serves up a vibrant bunch of rare and unusual plants — and to sweeten the deal, recipes are added too!
More...Transforming Urban Food Systems in Europe and Central Asia
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Identifying key challenges and the role of municipalities in transforming agri-food systems.
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