International online event | Nature-based health and social care

A unique opportunity to discover the market and policy trends, and what they look like on the ground, for Europe's fastest-growing themes that bridge the health and environment sectors; Nature-based Health and Social Care.

This webinar will bring together some of the most important researchers and practitioners to discuss challenges and concrete steps forward for the development and implementation of Green Care initiatives and nature-based interventions. Outcomes of discussions in the webinar will result in the design of a policy and market brief on Green Care. This event is the International launch of the Green4C project, supported by the Connecting Nature Enterprise Platform Sustainable Forestry and NBS for Health and Wellbeing Communities.

WORKSHOP'S AGENDA

15:00 - 15:50 | The role of Green Care in society

• Colm O'Driscoll - Connecting Nature Enterprise Platform Ambassador for Sustainable Forestry, Etifor | Valuing Nature
• Prof. Davide Pettenella - University of Padova
• Dr. Rik De Vreese - Urban Forestry Team Leader, European Forest Institute

Key note speaker

• Matthias Braubach - Urban Health Equity at the WHO European Centre for Environment and Health

15:50 - 16:50 | 1st Panel - Market perspectives and policy

Moderator

Dr. Matilda van den Bosch - Barcelona Institute for Global Health, ISGlobal

Panelists

• Dr. Tadhg MacIntyre - Dept. of Psychology/All Institute, Maynooth University and DFI Insight Centre for Data Analytics
• Matthew White - University of Vienna
• Nicole Prop - Green Care Austria
• Siobhan McQuaid - Associate Director of Innovation at Trinity College Dublin and Coordinator of Connecting Nature H2020 project

16:50 - 17:00 | Coffee break

17:00 - 17:50 | 2nd Panel - Practices: nature-based therapies for prevention

Moderator

Ms. Shirley Gleeson - Ecowellness Consulting and Connecting Nature Enterprise Platform Ambassador for Health and Well-being

Panelists

• Michéal Connors - The Natural Academy , UK BSc in Applied Economics, is a qualified psychotherapist, supervisor, further education lecturer, mountain leader and Wild Mind practitioner.
• Ray Burke - Active Connections, Ireland Adventure Therapy for youth in Ireland, Social Enterprise.
• Dr Lymarie Rodriguez Morales - University of Wales Trinity Saint David (Lecturer in Psychology) and Small Wood Wales (Wellbeing Practitioner).
• Nevin J. Harper - University of Victoria

17:50 - 18:00 | Closing remarks

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Other details

The event will be hosted through Zoom. The link to the event will be sent to registered participants shortly before the event.

Join and find out more on Connecting Nature Enterprise Platform here.

Find out more on Green4C Project here.