Professional training and education: today’s challenge to boost the Green Care market
The Green4C project has published a series of Market Outlooks identifying the need for professional training and education as key to driving innovation in …
Circular Bioeconomy
Green Care
Contact with forests and nature is increasingly acknowledged to have a positive impact on human health and wellbeing.
Green Care is the range of activities that promotes physical and mental health and wellbeing through contact with nature. These include nature-based activities for recreation and health promotion and can also include targeted therapeutic or treatment interventions delivered by trained/qualified practitioners.
Innovative Green care initiatives are emerging within the bioeconomy including:
Stories
EU Market Outlooks on Green Care
Market Outlooks for four Green Care sectors: Forest-based care; Social agriculture; Green care tourism; and Urban green care.
Nature-based solutions for health, wellbeing & social inclusion
Green4C aims to increase innovation capacity to promote nature-based solutions for health, well-being, and social inclusion.
What is social farming?
Social farming offers people who are socially, physically, mentally or intellectually disadvantaged the opportunity to spend time on a family farm in a healthy, supportive and inclusive environment.
The art of forest bathing
The healing power of being in contact with nature.
Training for innovation and entrepreneurship in Green Care
The complex picture of social innovation and entrepreneurship activities, future perspectives and relevant training opportunities currently offered by courses and institutions operating in Green Care.
Forest bathing in the Basque Country
Basoalde Elkartea is an association of forest bathing guides located in the north of Spain.
News
Promoting health through forests: different practices and benefits
Over the last 15 years, Green Care has emerged as a new and distinctive field of study and practice. However, while the benefits of …
